The Nashville Predators traded former first-round pick Philip Tomasino to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a fourth-round pick on Monday, a move general manager Barry Trotz said had been in the works for some time.

In 2022, the Predators waived forward Eeli Tolvanen, a 2017 first-round pick, who was picked up by the Seattle Kraken. Going back even further, Nashville traded 2014 first-round pick Kevin Fiala to the Minnesota Wild in 2019 and 2013 first-round pick Seth Jones to Columbus in 2016.

The move gives the struggling Penguins another young player to work with as the franchise tries to emerge from its roughest start in two decades.