The Pittsburgh Penguins activated forward prospect Melvin Fernstrom from the injured non-roster list and formally assigned him to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Fernstrom was designated to the injured non-roster list Sept. 24 and has been rehabilitating an unspecified shoulder injury with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton since then.<\/p>\n
That injury, which required surgery to repair, has prevented Fernstrom from playing any games since March 22 while he was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n
A right-handed shot, the 20-year-old Fernstrom split the 2025-26 campaign between Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton and Orebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League.<\/p>\n
In 14 AHL games, Fernstrom had eight points (two goals, six assists). With Orebro HK, Fernstrom skated in 36 games and posted four points (three goals, one assist).<\/p>\n
Fernstrom is in the first year of a three-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $965,000.<\/p>\n
The Penguins acquired Fernstrom in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks on Jan. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins activated forward prospect Melvin Fernstrom from the injured non-roster list and formally assigned him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-303400","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\/303400","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=303400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}