{"id":804842,"date":"2026-08-06T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804842\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:52:08","slug":"koivunen-signs-8-year-32-million-contract-with-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804842\/","title":{"rendered":"Koivunen signs 8-year, $32 million contract with Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 23-year-old forward had seven points (two goals, five assists) in 39 games with the Penguins last season and 41 points (13 goals, 28 assists) in 34 games with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League, which ranked second on the team. He also tied for second on Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton with nine points (four goals, five assists) in 15 playoff games to help it reach the AHL Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round (No. 51) of the 2021 NHL Draft, Koivunen was traded to the Penguins on March 7, 2024, in a seven-player deal that sent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-guentzel-8477404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Guentzel<\/a>\u00a0to the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Koivunen has 14 points (two goals, 12 assists) in 47 NHL games, all with the Penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old forward had seven points (two goals, five assists) in 39 games with the Penguins last season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-804842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}