{"id":396016,"date":"2026-01-07T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396016\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:40:12","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-assign-defenceman-harrison-brunicke-to-whls-blazers-after-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396016\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins assign defenceman Harrison Brunicke to WHL\u2019s Blazers after World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> have assigned defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/harrison-brunicke\/8484839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/harrison-brunicke\/8484839\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Brunicke<\/a> to the WHL\u2019s Kamloops Blazers on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brunicke is coming off an appearance with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships. He had two assists in seven games, winning bronze. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old made the Penguins out of training camp and skated in nine games with the team, scoring one goal. He also appeared in five games with the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, notching four assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brunicke was selected in the second round (44th overall) by Pittsburgh in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, Brunicke previously helped Canada win gold at the 2024 IIHF U18 World Championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2024-25 with Kamloops, he had five goals and 30 points in 41 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have assigned defenceman Harrison Brunicke to the WHL\u2019s Kamloops Blazers on Wednesday morning. Brunicke is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,50273,5,4,32614],"class_list":{"0":"post-396016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-harrison-brunicke-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484839","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115855283096878581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}