The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned defenseman Alex Alexeyev to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n
There was no announcement made by the team but the transaction was reflected on the NHL media website and the AHL\u2019s website as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The Penguins recalled Alexeyev to the NHL roster on Thursday, and he was a healthy scratch for two games before being returned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton on Sunday.<\/p>\n
At the AHL level this season, the 26-year-old Alexeyev (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) has appeared in 29 games and scored seven points (three goals, four assists).<\/p>\n
A left-handed shot, Alexeyev is signed to a one-year contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000. He is a pending restricted free agent this upcoming offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned defenseman Alex Alexeyev to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). There was no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-139023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139023","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=139023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}