Less than a week following their disappointing loss in the first round of the playoffs, a change has been made to the Penguins’ goaltending.

Former prospect Emil Larmi has signed a two-year contract with the Lahden Pelicans of Finland’s Liiga. The team announced Larmi’s signing with a release.

A native of Finland, Larmi just completed a two-year entry-level contract with the Penguins that he signed in June of 2019.

During his two seasons as a member of the Penguins organization, Larmi, 24, spent most of his time either with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) or the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL and never appeared in an NHL game.

This season, Larmi was loaned to HPK of the Liiga, appearing in 12 games for that team, during the fall and early winter as many European leagues began play while the NHL and other North American leagues were on hiatus due to the pandemic.

That loan was terminated by the start of January and Larmi began the NHL’s 2020-21 season on the taxi squad. He was shuffled back and forth between that group and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton throughout the campaign.

Limited to six AHL games this season, Larmi had a 1-4-1 record along with a 4.87 goals against average and an .845 save percentage.

By the end of the 2020-21 campaign, Larmi had fallen behind fellow undrafted prospect Alex D’Orio on the organization’s depth chart.

The Penguins will still retain Larmi’s NHL rights, should they choose to do so, as he is a pending restricted free agent following the completion of his NHL deal.

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