{"id":86611,"date":"2026-01-14T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:38:06","slug":"penguins-assign-forward-tristan-broz-to-wilkes-barre-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86611\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins assign forward Tristan Broz to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Tristan Broz 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 AHL affiliate and was a healthy scratch during Tuesday\u2019s 2-1 home shootout loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Typically deployed as Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s top center, Broz is that team\u2019s leading scorer this season with 24 points (11 goals, 13 assists) in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>A second-round draft pick (No. 58 overall) in 2021, Broz made his NHL debut earlier this season, appearing in one game with no points and 11:30 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Broz, 23, is in the second year of a three-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $925,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie forward Tristan Broz to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-86611","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\/86611","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=86611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}