{"id":73282,"date":"2025-12-30T01:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73282\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:18:17","slug":"penguins-assign-forward-danton-heinen-to-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73282\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forward Danton Heinen to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forward Danton Heinen to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That transaction was processed after he cleared waivers at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not announce the assignment but it was reflected on <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/transactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the AHL\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 13 NHL games this season, Heinen has scored two points (one goal, one assist) while averaging 11:40 of ice time per contest, predominantly as a bottom-six forward.<\/p>\n<p>Having previously cleared waivers Oct. 3, Heinen has been productive at the AHL level this season. In 12 games with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, he has generated 17 points (six goals, 11 assists) while largely skating on the top two lines.<\/p>\n<p>Heinen, 30, is in the final year of a contract carrying an average annual value of $2.25 million. With an assignment to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, $1.15 million of his salary cap hit will come off the books for the NHL club per league rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forward Danton Heinen to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Monday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-73282","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\/73282","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=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}