{"id":161677,"date":"2026-04-09T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:03:08","slug":"penguins-assign-goaltender-sergei-murashov-to-wilkes-barre-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161677\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign goaltender Sergei Murashov to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Sergei Murashov was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not announce the transaction but it was reflected on the NHL\u2019s media website and the AHL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Murashov was recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton on Tuesday and practiced with the NHL club for two days as incumbent goaltender Stuart Skinner recovered from a facial injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Skinner fit enough to play, Murashov was returned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Murashov, 22, made his NHL debut earlier this season. Appearing in five NHL contests, he posted a 1-1-2 record, a 2.56 goals-against average and an .897 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Star at the AHL level, Murashov has appeared in 35 games for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton this season and has a 23-8-3 record, a 2.13 goals-against average, a .922 save percentage and three shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Murashov is in the second year of a three-year contract with a salary cap hit of $861,110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Sergei Murashov was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-161677","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\/161677","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=161677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}