{"id":456649,"date":"2026-02-06T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:38:07","slug":"hayes-family-has-priceless-reaction-to-forwards-2-goal-nhl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456649\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayes family has priceless reaction to forward&#8217;s 2-goal NHL debut\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Penguins recalled Hayes earlier in the day from their AHL affiliate the Wilkes Bare\/Scranton Penguins due to the unavailability of forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/blake-lizotte-8481481\" title=\"Blake Lizotte\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lizotte<\/a> (personal), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/noel-acciari-8478569\" title=\"Noel Acciari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noel Acciari<\/a> (illness) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/rickard-rakell-8476483\" title=\"Rickard Rakell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> (injury).<\/p>\n<p>Hayes said only having eight hours between being called up and making his NHL debut was beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty quick turnaround, but honestly it was probably a good thing because I didn\u2019t have much time to think or stress about it, so I just got to go out there and play,\u201d the rookie said in the Sportsnet Pittsburgh interview. \u201cWe drove in and I was ready to go. So, it was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This season Hayes has 23 points (13 goals, 10 assists) in 31 games with Wilkes Bare\/Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins recalled Hayes earlier in the day from their AHL affiliate the Wilkes Bare\/Scranton Penguins due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-456649","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\/456649","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=456649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}