{"id":166978,"date":"2026-04-15T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:44:09","slug":"penguins-assign-5-forwards-to-wilkes-barre-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166978\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign 5 forwards to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Avery Hayes, Ville Koivunen, Joona Koppanen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not announce the transactions but they were reflected on the NHL\u2019s media website and the AHL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey-Pinard was recalled to the NHL club on Tuesday and made his debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins in their regular season finale, a 7-5 road loss to the St. Louis Blues. He did not record a point.<\/p>\n<p>With the AHL club, Harvey-Pinard is the team\u2019s third-leading scorer with 36 points (19 goals, 17 assists) in 64 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes scored a pair of goals in Tuesday\u2019s loss. In 16 NHL games, Hayes has five goals while averaging 11:10 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s second-leading scorer, Hayes has 38 points (23 goals, 15 assists) in 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>Koivunen has played in 39 NHL games and posted seven points (two goals, five assists) while clocking 12:44 per contest.<\/p>\n<p>He has been far more prolific at the AHL level, generating 36 points (11 goals, 25 assists) in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>McGroarty has split the season between the NHL and AHL rosters. With Pittsburgh, McGroarty has appeared in 24 games and scored six points (three goals, three assists) and averaged 11:58 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Over 28 AHL contests, McGroarty has 30 points (eight goals, 22 assists).<\/p>\n<p>Koppanen has dressed for 13 NHL games, recorded a single assist and clocked 12:08 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>At the AHL level, Koppanen has 23 points (eight goals, 15 assists) in 42 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Avery Hayes, Ville Koivunen, Joona Koppanen and Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-166978","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\/166978","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=166978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}