The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) late Monday night.<\/p>\n
The team did not announce either transaction but they were reflected on the NHL\u2019s media website as well as the AHL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Both players were healthy scratches during an 8-3 road win against the New York Islanders on Monday.<\/p>\n
Koivunen has appeared in 36 NHL contests this season and has scored seven points (two goals, five assists) while averaging 12:29 of ice time.<\/p>\n
With Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, Koivunen has played in 29 games and generated 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists).<\/p>\n
A left-handed shot, Koivunen is in the final year of a three-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $805,833.<\/p>\n
McGroarty has skated in 21 NHL games, posting five points (two goals, three assists) while clocking an average of 11:46 ice time per contest.<\/p>\n
At the AHL level, McGroarty has 26 points (seven goals, 19 assists).<\/p>\n
The left-handed McGroarty is in the second year of a three-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $950,000.<\/p>\n
In another transaction within the organization, defenseman Emil Pieniniemi was assigned from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton to Wheeling of the ECHL.<\/p>\n
A left-handed shot, Pieniniemi has appeared in nine AHL games and scored three points (one goal, two assists).<\/p>\n
With Wheeling, Pieniniemi has appeared in 18 games, posting nine points (four goals, five assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-153400","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\/153400","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=153400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}