{"id":156379,"date":"2026-04-03T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156379\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:01:07","slug":"penguins-assign-forward-avery-hayes-to-wilkes-barre-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156379\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forward Avery Hayes to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Avery Hayes was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the transaction on Friday but the assignment was reflected on the AHL\u2019s website on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In 13 NHL games this season, the right-handed Hayes has three goals while averaging 10:38 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>At the AHL level, Hayes appeared in nine games and has scored 35 points, including a team-leading 22 goals to go along with 13 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes 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":"Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Avery Hayes was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). The team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-156379","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\/156379","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=156379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}