{"id":121244,"date":"2026-02-23T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121244\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:07","slug":"penguins-recall-forward-avery-hayes-from-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121244\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins recall forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time this season Hayes has been summoned to the NHL roster.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, he was recalled Feb. 5. That same day, he made his NHL debut and scored two goals in a 5-2 road win against the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kCPb7XQPcr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kCPb7XQPcr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EN Videos (@ENVideos19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ENVideos19\/status\/2019628232564449718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One day later, Hayes (5-foot-19, 180 pounds) was returned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>At the AHL level this season, the 23-year-old Hayes has 30 points (19 goals, 11 assists) in 36 games. He has been prolific as of late with 10 goals in his past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes, a right-handed shot, is in the first year of a two-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $830,000.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Sunday. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-121244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}