{"id":4771,"date":"2026-04-16T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/tyler-duke-signs-with-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:49:09","slug":"tyler-duke-signs-with-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/tyler-duke-signs-with-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Duke signs with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-604305\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Senior defenseman Tyler Duke of the Michigan hockey team has signed with the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbspenguins.com\/maleek-mcgowan-tyler-duke-jack-horbach-signed-by-penguins\/\">announced<\/a> Thursday. Duke will join the team at the beginning of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Duke was one of the Wolverines\u2019 most crucial defenders this season, leading the team in time in ice per game with 20:38 minutes. While undersized at just 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds, he is a strong, stocky defender who is difficult to move off pucks and plays with a high level of physicality. His goal took a hit this year as his shooting percentage plummeted from 13.5% last season to just 3.8%, and he ultimately scored just two on the season. Still, he hit a career high in points with 18.<\/p>\n<p>Duke began his career at Ohio State, where he was part of a team that reached the NCAA Albany regional final against Quinnipiac. While there, he posted 12 points in 40 games. On April 22, 2023, he transferred to Michigan, where he reunited with his older brother, former Michigan forward Dylan Duke. He became a crucial part of the blue line that year.<\/p>\n<p>His role on the blue line increased significantly during his junior and senior year as he evolved into a steady stay-at-home defenseman. For the last two seasons, he was mostly paired with fellow senior defenseman Luca Fantilli, and the two led the team in ice time as a pair this year. Despite his smaller stature, Duke is known as a hard-nosed defender who was always willing to fight for a teammate but also took plenty of penalties, leading the team with 84 penalty minutes this year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior defenseman Tyler Duke of the Michigan hockey team has signed with the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, the team announced Thursday. Duke will join the team at the beginning of the 2026-27 season. Duke was one of the Wolverines\u2019 most crucial defenders this season, leading the team in time in ice per game with 20:38 minutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4294,2085,472,1999,4440],"class_list":{"0":"post-4771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-duke","9":"tag-penguins","10":"tag-signs","11":"tag-tyler","12":"tag-wilkesbarrescranton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}