{"id":278923,"date":"2024-01-04T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=278923"},"modified":"2024-01-04T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:31:34","slug":"wild-recalls-forward-sammy-walker-from-iowa%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=278923","title":{"rendered":"Wild Recalls Forward Sammy Walker From Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SAINT PAUL, Minn. &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled forward&nbsp;<strong>Sammy Walker<\/strong>&nbsp;from Iowa. The team has also placed forward&nbsp;<strong>Vinni Lettieri<\/strong>&nbsp;(lower-body) on Injured Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker, 24, has appeared in two games with Minnesota this season. The right-shot forward has also skated in 28 games with Iowa this season, recording 19 points (5-14=19), three power-play goals (PPGs) and 73 shots. Walker ranks first on Iowa in shots, second in assists, T-2nd in PPGs and third in points. He has recorded two points (1-1=2) in 11 career games with Minnesota. Walker made his NHL debut at Vancouver on Dec. 10, 2022 and recorded his first career NHL goal at Winnipeg on Dec. 27, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 180-pound native of Edina, Minnesota, recorded 112 points (48-64=112) and 81 penalty minutes (PIM) in 144 games during four seasons at the University of Minnesota (2018-22). Originally selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the seventh round (200th overall) of the 2017 NHL Draft, Walker signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Minnesota on Aug. 18, 2022. He wears sweater No. 18 with Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lettieri, 28 (2\/6\/95), has recorded four points (3-1=4), and six PIM in 19 games for Minnesota this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn. &#8211;&nbsp;Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled forward&nbsp;Sammy Walker&nbsp;from Iowa. The team has also placed forward&nbsp;Vinni Lettieri&nbsp;(lower-body) on Injured Reserve. Walker, 24, has appeared in two games with Minnesota this season. The right-shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":278924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278928,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923\/revisions\/278928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}