{"id":167807,"date":"2026-04-16T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167807\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:11:08","slug":"defenseman-mcgowan-joins-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-on-ato-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167807\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenseman McGowan Joins Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins on ATO Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OHL Kingston Frontenacs alternate captain and defenseman Maleek McGowan has been signed to an AHL-only contract with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins for the 2026-27 season. He will play the remainder of this season on an Amateur Tryout contract (ATO).<\/p>\n<p>McGowan posted 36 points (14G, 22A) in Kingston in 62 OHL games. His 14 goals were ranked eighth amongst the league&#8217;s defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old was also a finalist for the Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy for best overage player of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OHL Kingston Frontenacs alternate captain and defenseman Maleek McGowan has been signed to an AHL-only contract with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[75566,75568,58238,63517,75570,75567,178,180,179,75569,18694,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-167807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-adirondack-bank-center","9":"tag-daniel-deloach","10":"tag-drew-o39connor","11":"tag-kingston-frontenacs","12":"tag-maleek-mcgowan","13":"tag-observer-dispatch","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-usa-today-network","18":"tag-utica-comets","19":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167807","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=167807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}