{"id":142840,"date":"2026-03-19T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142840\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:40:06","slug":"penguins-assign-forward-avery-hayes-to-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142840\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forward Avery Hayes to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Avery Hayes to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A healthy scratch for the past two games, Hayes has appeared in 11 NHL contests this season and scored two goals while averaging 10:37 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not having played an AHL game since Feb. 21, the right-handed Hayes leads Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton with 19 goals while totaling 30 points in 36 contests.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes, 23, is in the first year of a two-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $830,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Avery Hayes to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-142840","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\/142840","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=142840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}