Penguins acquire Colton Poolman from Sabres for Bennett MacArthur, Jagger Joshua

The Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins completed a trade Friday that will see minor-league rearguard Colton Poolman head to Pennsylvania while a pair of forwards in Bennett MacArthur and Jagger Joshua will now set up shop in Western New York. The Penguins also acquired future considerations as part of the deal.

A 29-year-old native of East Grand Forks, Minn., Poolman has made five appearances this season with the Rochester Americans, the Sabres’ top minor-league affiliate, in which he has recorded one assist and a minus-two rating. Prior to arriving in Rochester, Poolman spent the past four seasons in the Calgary Flames‘ minor-league system, seeing 213 contests in which he tallied 39 points counting six goals and 33 assists. A graduate of the NCAA’s North Dakota Fighting Hawks, Poolman is the younger brother of Colorado Avalanche rearguard Tucker Poolman.

MacArthur joins the Sabres’ organization after seeing 28 games this season with the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers in which he recorded three goals and four assists for seven points. MacArthur has previously played six games at the AHL level split over two seasons with the Syracuse Crunch plus an additional 108 ECHL games with the Orlando Solar Bears and Allen Americans. The 23-year-old native of Summerside, P.E.I., is a graduate of the QMJHL’s Acadie-Bathurst Titan.

Joshua is in his third season of pro hockey where this year he has split time between the ECHL and AHL, including eight games with the Nailers in which he has registered three goals and two assists for five points, plus four showings with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Pittsburgh’s top farm club, with whom he has collected one assist. Joshua also combined for 70 games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton over the past two seasons, highlighted by his 25-point finish in 2023-24. A 25-year-old product of Dearborn, Mich., Joshua is a graduate of the NCAA’s Michigan State Spartans.