{"id":313444,"date":"2026-10-24T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313444\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:48:19","slug":"penguins-recall-forward-avery-hayes-from-wilkes-barre-scranton-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313444\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins recall forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily deployed as a right winger on the top line this season, Hayes has appeared in six AHL games this season and has scored nine points (five goals, four assists).<\/p>\n<p>A right-handed shot, the 24-year-old Hayes is in the second year of a two-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $905,000.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Hayes made his NHL debut, appearing in 16 games and scoring five goals while averaging 11:10 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding transaction, the Penguins placed defenseman Sam Girard on injured reserve. He has missed the past two games due to a suspected right arm injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Avery Hayes from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday. Primarily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-313444","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\/313444","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=313444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}