{"id":485085,"date":"2024-07-09T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485085"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:04:12","slug":"clark-leaves-maple-leafs-to-re-join-dubas-with-penguins","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clark-leaves-maple-leafs-to-re-join-dubas-with-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark leaves Maple Leafs to re-join Dubas with Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins appointed Wes Clark as their vice president of player personnel today, reuniting him with president and GM Kyle Dubas.<\/p>\n<p>Wes spent the past 6 campaigns with the Maple Leafs, mostly recently running the organization\u2019s draft as director of player personnel in the past campaign and director amateur scouting in the previous 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh announced that Clark would be overseas the franchise\u2019s amateur, professional, and college\/European scouting structures. Wes will work under Kyle, who parted ways with Toronto last offseason before joining his new team.<\/p>\n<p>The new addition to the Penguins staff 1<sup>st<\/sup> worked with the current Pittsburgh president and general manager as director of player personnel and development with the OHL&#8217;s Soo Greyhounds for 5 years as the period was between 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wes Clark, the big decision-maker at the Leafs\u2019 draft the last few years, has joined the Pittsburgh Penguins as VP of player personnel. <\/p>\n<p>Some notable players he drafted:<br \/>\u2014 Matt Knies (57) \u201821<br \/>\u2014 Fraser Minten (38) \u201822<br \/>\u2014 Easton Cowan (28) \u201823<br \/>\u2014 Ben Danford (31) \u201824<\/p>\n<p>Good-get. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q6LFMKukpB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Q6LFMKukpB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ChelPenguins (@ChelPenguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelPenguins\/status\/1810698244181364905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins appointed Wes Clark as their vice president of player personnel today, reuniting him with president and GM Kyle Dubas. Wes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16949],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17847,23124,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Pittsburgh hired Wes as their vice president of player personnel.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485087,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485085\/revisions\/485087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485085"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485085"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}