{"id":237824,"date":"2026-07-07T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:06:07","slug":"wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-bring-back-forward-rafael-harvey-pinard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237824\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins bring back forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard will remain with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins for a second season after signing an American Hockey League (AHL) contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old spent the 2025-26 season signed to a one-year, two-way NHL contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins and spent the bulk of the campaign with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. He was Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s third-leading scorer with 39 points (21 goals, 18 assists) in 66 games.<\/p>\n<p>A left-handed shot, Harvey-Pinard (5-foot-9, 179 pounds) did appear in a single NHL contest last season. Recalled to the NHL club in mid-April, he made his debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the regular season finale, a 7-5 road loss to the St. Louis Blues. He logged 11:02 of ice time on 16 shifts and had two shots.<\/p>\n<p>With Harvey-Pinard signed, forwards Kevin Hayes and Anthony Mantha remain the only unrestricted free agents who finished the 2025-26 season under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins and have not signed new contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, forward Valtteri Puustinen remains unsigned as a restricted free agent while forward Nick Robertson, who the Penguins acquired in a trade on July 1, remains unsigned as a restricted free agent as well.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Harvey-Pinard, Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton signed defenseman Ryan Mast and forward Hugh McGing to one-year AHL contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard will remain with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins for a second season after signing an American Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-237824","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\/237824","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=237824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}