{"id":770660,"date":"2026-06-30T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:02:09","slug":"penguins-golden-knights-swap-defencemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770660\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins, Golden Knights swap defencemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Penguins will retain 50 per cent of Wotherspoon&#8217;s $1-million salary next season.<\/p>\n<p>Wotherspoon, 28, appeared in 80 games for Pittsburgh last season, recording career highs with three goals and 27 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Over four seasons in the NHL, also with the New York Islanders and Boston Bruins, the Surrey, B.C., native has four goals and 42 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Korczak, 25, skated in 78 games with Vegas last season with three goals and 13 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Yorkton, Sask., native had played his entire five-season career with the Golden Knights, tallying four goals and 33 assists over 155 games.<\/p>\n<p>He is under contract through the 2029-30 season at $3.25 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins will retain 50 per cent of Wotherspoon&#8217;s $1-million salary next season. Wotherspoon, 28, appeared in 80&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-770660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}