{"id":874637,"date":"2026-10-08T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874637\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:28:09","slug":"nhl-status-report-rust-activated-by-penguins-makes-season-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874637\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Rust activated by Penguins, makes season debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-klepov-8486052\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Klepov<\/a>\u00a0will make his NHL debut for the Ducks against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; Prime Video, KCOP-13, SNW). The forward was the No. 15 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and signed a three-year, entry-level contract July 25, forgoing his commitment to playing\u00a0NCAA hockey at Michigan State this season.\u00a0Klepov, who was a healthy scratch the first two games, is likely to play right wing on the third line with Nikita Nesterenko and Ryan Poehling. &#8220;Very excited, especially (my) first game,&#8221; Klepov said. &#8220;Just play my game, don&#8217;t really overthink it, and just be myself. &#8230; Just continue to work on my conditioning, just get stronger and bigger and obviously play my game and don&#8217;t really think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Nikita Klepov\u00a0will make his NHL debut for the Ducks against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday (10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-874637","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\/874637","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=874637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}