{"id":157242,"date":"2026-04-04T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:56:07","slug":"penguins-assign-defenseman-harrison-brunicke-to-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157242\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign defenseman Harrison Brunicke to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins defensive prospect Harrison Brunicke was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not announce the transaction but it was reflected on the AHL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Brunicke, 19, completed his season at the junior level on Wednesday when the Kamloops Blazers were swept out of the first round of the Western Hockey League\u2019s postseason by the Kelowna Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>In 24 regular season games with Kamloops, Brunicke had 24 points (two goals, 22 assists).<\/p>\n<p>Brunicke opened the season on the Penguins\u2019 NHL roster and appeared in nine contests, scored one goal and averaged 15:43 of ice time while predominantly skating on the third pairing.<\/p>\n<p>He also played in five games for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton while on a conditioning assignment in November and December. During that assignment, he recorded four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Brunicke, a second-round selection (N0. 44 overall) in the 2024 NHL Draft, is in the first year of a three-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $875,000 but the first year of that contract can \u201cslide\u201d (i.e., begin) to next season should he not play in any more NHL games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defensive prospect Harrison Brunicke was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-157242","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\/157242","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=157242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}