{"id":57463,"date":"2025-12-10T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57463\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:45:13","slug":"penguins-assign-forward-sam-poulin-to-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57463\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forward Sam Poulin to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Sam Poulin to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This transaction comes one day after he was recalled from the minor league affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin was a healthy scratch during Tuesday\u2019s 4-3 home shootout loss to the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>With the NHL club, Poulin has appeared in two contests this season and has no points while averaging 13:49 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>At the AHL level, Poulin is Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s leading scorer this season with 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) in 21 games.<\/p>\n<p>Following this transaction, the Penguins have 22 active players on the NHL roster, one short of the league limit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Seth Rorabaugh is a TribLive reporter covering the Pittsburgh Penguins. A North Huntingdon native, he joined the Trib in 2019 and has covered the Penguins since 2007. He can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/penguins-assign-forward-sam-poulin-to-wilkes-barre-scranton-2\/mailto:srorabaugh@triblive.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">srorabaugh@triblive.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Sam Poulin to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-57463","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\/57463","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=57463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}