{"id":524040,"date":"2026-03-26T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/524040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:13:17","slug":"penguins-recall-forwards-avery-hayes-joona-koppanen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/524040\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins recall forwards Avery Hayes, Joona Koppanen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forwards Avery Hayes and Joona Koppanen from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Thursday morning, a handful of hours before a road contest against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 NHL games this season, Hayes has scored two goals while averaging 10:37 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>At the AHL level, Hayes has appeared in 38 contests and posted 32 points, including a team-leading 20 goals.<\/p>\n<p>A right-handed shot, Hayes (5-foot-10, 180 pounds) is in the first year of a two-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $830,000.<\/p>\n<p>Koppanen has played in 10 NHL games this season and posted one assist while clocking an average of 12:28 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>With Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, Koppanen has skated in 37 games and posted 19 points (seven goals, 12 assists).<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed Koppanen (6-5, 216) is signed to a one-year, two-way contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000.<\/p>\n<p>These transactions occured one day after forward Anthony Mantha <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/penguins-forward-anthony-mantha-sidelined-by-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">missed a practice session in Cranberry due to an undisclosed injury and was labled as \u201cday to day<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forwards Avery Hayes and Joona Koppanen from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-524040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116296365619797528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524040","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=524040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}