{"id":422388,"date":"2026-01-20T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:17:07","slug":"penguins-acquire-ilya-solovyov-from-avalanche-for-valtteri-puustinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422388\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins acquire Ilya Solovyov from Avalanche for Valtteri Puustinen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solovyov has been a steady contributor on the Avalanche blue line this season, tallying one goal and two assists in 16 games while playing an average of 11:34 of ice time per night. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has split time between the AHL and NHL clubs, with his most recent call-up to the Avalanche coming in early January in place of the injured Devon Toews. <\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Calgary Flames 205th overall in Round 7 of the 2020 NHL Draft, the Belarusian defenceman has one goal and six assists over 31 career NHL games. <\/p>\n<p>Puustinen, meanwhile, has spent the entirety of the 2025-26 season in the AHL with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. In 35 games, the right winger has seven goals and 19 assists. <\/p>\n<p>Since being selected 203rd overall by the Penguins in 2019, the Finn has seven goals and 17 assists in 66 NHL outings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solovyov has been a steady contributor on the Avalanche blue line this season, tallying one goal and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-422388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}