{"id":690293,"date":"2026-10-19T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/690293\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T03:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:09:42","slug":"updated-penguins-demote-johnson-recall-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/690293\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Penguins Demote Johnson, Recall D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In moves announced hours apart Sunday, the Pittsburgh Penguins assigned spare defenseman Ryan Johnson to the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, then recalled defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/ilya-solovyov\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Solovyov<\/a>  from WBS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Johnson move opened a roster spot but the team didn\u2019t fill it until later in the day. Adding to the curious timing of the moves, Penguins left-handed defenseman Sam Girard was injured in the second period Saturday in the team\u2019s 6-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights and did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Girard slammed hard into the end wall and lay on the ice, seeming dazed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penguins acquired Johnson last week in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres for defensemen Caleb Johnson and <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/daniel-laatsch\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Laatsch<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solovyov cleared waivers and was sent to WBS earlier this month after not cracking the NHL <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/pittsburgh-penguins-lines\/\" class=\"pb-lineups-autolink__link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lineup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penguins will try to salvage a win, or at least a point, on their four-game road trip Monday when they play the Mammoth in Salt Lake City before heading home.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/caleb-johnson\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Johnson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/daniel-laatsch\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Laatsch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/ilya-solovyov\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Solovyov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/ryan-johnson\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">ryan johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In moves announced hours apart Sunday, the Pittsburgh Penguins assigned spare defenseman Ryan Johnson to the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[73717,32255,5,11999,4,118,1469,100,5216,14074],"class_list":["post-690293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-caleb-johnson","tag-daniel-laatsch","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-solovyov","tag-nhl","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-pittsburghpenguins","tag-ryan-johnson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117465380628859729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690293","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=690293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}