{"id":155882,"date":"2026-04-03T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:46:11","slug":"penguins-assign-forwards-ville-koivunen-rutger-mcgroarty-to-wilkes-barre-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155882\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forwards Ville Koivunen, Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins once again assigned rookie forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Both players have been shuffled between the NHL and AHL rosters in a series of transactions over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>With Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, Koivunen has played in 29 games and generated 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists).<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>At the AHL level, McGroarty has 26 points (seven goals, 19 assists).<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins once again assigned rookie forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-155882","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\/155882","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=155882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}