The Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins entered last weekend a point out of first place in the East Division.
Fast forward a week, and those same Penguins who have lost five straight games, are now on the outside looking in when it comes to playoffs.
There were three teams relevant to the Penguins in action Friday night. Here are the recaps of all of the affairs…
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The reason the Penguins are currently out of the playoffs? The Albany Devils, two points out of the 8th spot in ninth at the start of the night, were in Glens Falls tonight and beat a Phantoms team decimated by League suspensions 4-1. Mike Sislo netted two goals for the Devils.
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St. John’s, one of the two teams tied with the Penguins in points (62, Providence being the other) coming into Friday, leapfrog their way into fifth place in the conference with a 5-1 win in Worcester tonight. The two teams rematch tomorrow.
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The B Machine continues to roll. The East Division leading Binghamton Senators were in Montreal tonight at the Bell Centre taking on the Hamilton Bulldogs and won 4-1. G Andrew Hammond has won four straight, for a .953 SV% and a 1.50 GAA. Oh, Binghamton has the most goals scored (199) in the East Division.
So the Eastern Conference Standings look like this three weeks into February:
1) MCH (76) 2) SPR (71) 3) BNG (70) 4) HER (64) 5) STJ (64) 6) PRO (63) 7) NOR (62) 8) ALB (62) 9) WBS (62)
Games in hand situation look like this: Pens have 53. Albany and Binghamton have a game in hand, Hershey and Norfolk have two.
In case you were wondering, Hershey, Norfolk and Providence were all off tonight as well. All 30 clubs are dancing Saturday. Norfolk is in Albany, Hershey hosts Syracuse, St. John’s rematches with Worcester and Binghamton hosts Utica.
The Penguins play the Providence Bruins Saturday night at home. It probably goes without saying that tomorrow is the biggest game of the season for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins.
Gameday for this affair will hit the blog at 3 p.m.
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