Chirps from Center Ice

A fan blog about the AHL's Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

GAMEDAY: vs. Portland 2/7

vs. 2012_POR

Home Game: 25

AHL Game: 699

Who: Portland Pirates

Where: Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza

When: 7:05 p.m.

Media Kit

Last Game: Saturday at home vs. Rochester, the Penguins were shutout 4-0. For Portland, they were in Binghamton Wednesday and beat the B-Sens 5-1. The Pirates scored four power play goals.

Last Meeting: January 18 in Maine, the Penguins won 4-2. Philip Samuelsson had a goal and three assists and was named first star of the game.

Record: For WBS: 26-16-1-3 (56 pts., 2nd place East Division) — For POR: 17-19-2-7 (43 pts., 5th place Atlantic Division)

Why you should care: Will the Penguins be able to turn things around on offense and special teams against a Portland team that game up 7 goals in each of their last three games this past weekend?

Referee(s): T.J. Luxmore / Geno Binda

Linesmen: Bob Fyrer / Jud Ritter

Twitter: @wbspenguins / @WBSGameDay / @portlandpirates

Facebook: /WilkesBarreScrantonPenguins // /PortlandPirates

Instagram: wbspenguins / piratesahl

Beat Writers: @CVBombulie / @Chris_MHJ

Broadcasters: WBS: Mike O’Brien @MikeOBrienWBS / POR: Jeff Mannix @jeffmannix

Fan Bloggers: @nafsnep 

Radio: For WBS: SportsHub 102.3 / For Portland: News Talk 1310 WLOB

Television: AHL Live

Promotion(s): None

Other Game to Watch: Hartford visits Norfolk this weekend for a set against the Admirals.

Next Five Games: ADK 2/8, @ HER 2/9, @ BNG 2/14, @ HER 2/15, HER 2/16

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