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I changed the blog headline at the last second because I wanted to tell you here in the open that the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins have locked up second place in the Atlantic Division and will avoid the First Round and instead enjoy a bye.

That’s because the Hershey Bears did the Penguins a solid and defeated the Charlotte Checkers 2-1 in regulation earlier in the day and no matter what happened Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre, the bye was the Penguins.

“House Money” was the operating headline here but I didn’t think that stuck given the circumstances of the game needing to be played, so we went with the fun, punny, ‘bye Felicia’ headline.

Oh, the Penguins defeated the Cleveland Monsters 4-1 behind a pair of Aidan McDonough goals.

I again ask, where the hell would we be without Aidan McDonough?

Here’s how they lined up:

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Lineup Notes: Pittsburgh didn’t have anything to play for so they decided to call up Rutger McGroarty, Joona Koppanen and Ville Koivunen because they are playing with house money locked into the second seed in the Metropolitan Division. Coal Street recalled Nolan Renwick earlier in the day and he, Zach Gallant and a returning Aaron Huglen were in up front and Alex Alexeyev was in for Phil Kemp on defense.

First Period: Daniel Russell leads a two on one with Atley Clavert, puts a shot on net he knows will be redirected to Calvert and it’s Calvert who score to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead.

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(journalistic integrity denies me the right to call them the Gandy Dancers. come on, I give you terrible pun headlines, ain’t that enough?)

Second Period: Highlight of the period was Joel Blomqvist stopping a Tate Singleton breakaway clean I hope is in the highlight package below.

The teams traded two power plays a side.

Third Period: The Penguins got a bit of a scare when Sebastian Aho was called for a double minor for high sticking but the Penguins penalty kill was able to get out of it clean.

No, seriously, where the hell would we be without Aidan McDonough?

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Big goal. Why?

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This was less than a minute later.

Aidan McDonough said watch this…

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:58 later to be exact.

So after nearly fifty minutes of nothing offensively but for one goal, it’s three goals in the span of 1:50.

With time dwindling, Zach Sawchenko was vacated from the net and Tanner Howe scored an empty net goal, fire up the coffee pots!

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Three Stars: 3) Joel Blomqvist (25 saves) 2) Atley Calvert (goal, assist) 1) Aidan McDonough (two goals)

The Good: Nice tidy win against a playoff bound Cleveland team. Wilkes-Barre was at about 80% strength, 75% depending on who you talk to, and handled a playoff bound Cleveland Monsters team.

The Bad: Would like to see them get a shutout for one of their goaltenders in one of the next two games. Just not the last game, that’s been a bad omen the last two seasons.

Turning Point: Pick either the 4:00 kill on the Aho high stick to start the third or the McDonough power play goal that made it 3-1.

Around the Division: I don’t think the rest it matters since they are cemented in the two seed. Play the dame kids the rest of the season and keep healthy!

Here’s the Saturday night scoreboard with of course ten minutes left to play in the third at 9:40 on a Saturday night.

Standings: Doesn’t matter, Penguins are locked in the two seed with 97 points and have three more games to play. They can max at 103. Getting 100+ points would be sweet.

Here’s the standings board if you are so interested.

Wheeling Update: Nailers with a big win in Reading.

Video Highlights: That Blomqvist save I talked about above is at the :50 mark below.

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Three games left, play your kids!

More this coming Wednesday when Hershey stops in.

Let’s Go Pens!

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At one point in this contest, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins were up 5-2 in the third period.

But three unanswered goals by the Bridgeport Islanders with relentless pressure sees the team get to overtime where Pierrick Dubé scores with left to play to give the Islanders a 6-5 overtime win.

Ex-Hershey Bear in a Bear-ish market. Had fellow Islander Ethan Bear scored the overtime winner it would have been “Bear Market” as your headline. Let me explain…

Here’s how they lined up first though  – Bridgeport didn’t post lines.

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Lineup Notes: Wilkes-Barre recalled Maxim Pavlenko Thursday morning but neither he nor Taylor Gauthier appeared in the game as Pittsburgh sent Sergei Murashov back in time to start. As the graphic stated, Daniel Russell and Mikhaïl Ilyin both made their AHL debuts.

Aaron Huglen, fresh off his hat trick Sunday in Allentown, is week to week with a lower body injury. My spies advise me he’s in a walking boot. He joins Melvin Fernstrom and Tritan Broz in the week to week category, but Broz is practicing in red. Chase Pietila for Alex Alexeyev on defense.

First Period: Daylan Kuefler outmuscles Chase Pietila and scores just 92 seconds into the game and the Islanders were off and running.

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Penguins settled, held the Islanders without a shot for a bit and then Daniel Russell puts a shot on net that Finn Harding tips in for a goal at 6:22 and it’s a tie game.

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Second Period: Penguins net a weird goal from Tanner Howe. Howe rainbows a shot over 6’8 goaltender Henrik Tikkanen for the Islanders and it goes in.

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Indeed.

:59 later, Gabe Klassen scores on a nice tic tac goal from Ville Koivunen and it’s a 3-1 Penguins lead now.

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Guys like Klassen and Aidan McDonough are the parts that make this Penguins engine go.

But then the Islanders would respond with a goal. Marshall Warren throws a shot at the net and Victor Eklund scored his first AHL goal that brings Bridgeport back to within one.

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But then Harrison Brunicke scores his fist regular season pro goal (he had a playoff goal last year) while the teams were at 4-on-4 that re-establishes the two goal Penguins lead.

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Couple things, I’m bearish on the Penguins chances in the postseason because they went 0/3 on the power play to this point. In a close game like this and the power plays just rolling into you, they gotta make these count.

Third Period: Hot start for Wilkes-Barre as Atley Calvert scores less than two minutes in and it’s a 5-2 Penguins lead.

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But :35 later, Joey Larson. scores to make it 5-3.

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I’m not going to bury Harrison Brunicke because he scored a goal in the contest, but you are a hockey player and not a traffic cop. What’s with the pointing? Cover the guy in front!

Turning point of the game here as Boko Imama crushes Sean Day into the boards and is ejected from the contest and the Islanders are given a 5:00 major power play.

Liam Foudy scores a power play goal with :13 left in it to bring the Islanders to one.

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At this point it was a holding on for the Penguins as the Islanders had all the momentum a team could have, and it’s a mere formality at this point.

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Damn.

Overtime: Bridgeport had all the possession time and it’s Pierrick Dubé scoring the goal to give the Islanders a ninth straight home win.

(Islanders stopped short of posting a GIF here)

Double damn.

Three Stars: 3) Daylan Kuefer (goal, assist) 2) Gabe Klassen (goal, assist) 1) Pierrick Dubé (goal, assist)

The Good: They are getting painstakingly close to wrapping up the first round bye, but now need a win Saturday and help from Hershey to beat the Charlotte Checkers in order to do it. If not, it’s three cracks next week. As for tonight? They scored five goals and that’s usually enough to carry them to a win.

The Bad: Besides handing Providence the Atlantic Division Championship with the OT loss, they could have put the game away if they would have scored on one of the early power plays in the game and didn’t. I’m starting to gather data and look at trends of the teams that have qualified for the playoffs, including the Penguins, but I am very, very bearish on this Wilkes-Barre team. This win for Bridgeport solidifies them as a solid playoff favorite and could get them home ice in the First Round. It was a playoff like atmosphere in Bridgeport and the Penguins didn’t win the game and on top of that coughed up a three goal lead in the third period. That’s not a Calder Cup contending team by any stretch of the imagination.

Turning Point: The Imama 5:00 major started the snowball down the hill for the Islanders and the rest was history.

Around the Division: They all watched us. No really, there were no other AHL games anywhere.

Standings: Providence 104 – Penguins 95 – Charlotte 89 – Bridgeport 70 – Hershey 67 – Springfield 66 – Lehigh Valley 62 – Hartford 56

Wheeling Update: The Nailers were off.

Video Highlights: 

They are off Friday and back Saturday as they reincarnate into the Steamtown Gandy Dancers. Train puns? Sure, why not!

Let’s Go Pens!

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A natural hat trick for Aaron Huglen, Wilkes-Barre’s sixth win in a row and the most road wins in franchise history (back when they used to play 80 games a seas0n) and the Penguins rout the Lehigh Valley Phantoms 6-2.

A trio of goals for Huglen, a goal for Aidan McDonough and Rutger McGroarty and a power play goal for Atley Calvert. Joel Blomqvist made 22 saves. The Penguins magic number for a playoff bye is four points.

Here’s how they lined up….

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Lineup Notes: The lineup graphic above is not correct, they went 7 defensemen with Chase Pietila skating as the extra defenseman and Zach Gallant not in the lineup. Avery Hayes was held out of the lineup as a precautionary for Pittsburgh’s injury concerns.

First Period: Dream start for the road team, who scored three goals in the span of 1:46 for Wilkes-Barre / Scranton starting with Aidan McDonough, then :18 later it was Aaron Huglen and then Huglen scores again before the the game is four minutes old.

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The only blemish in the period is they took two penalties, but it was another okay if you like perfect period for the Penguins.

Second Period: Wilkes-Barre tacked on two more when Aaron Huglen netted a natural hat trick and then responded with a power play goal from Atley Calvert.

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But then Lehigh Valley mucked it up and the Penguins bit at this and Lane Pederson scored a power play goal that broke the shutout bid for Joel Blomqvist.

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This remains a troubling concern for the Penguins, who can 5v5 with any team in the league but get baited into way too many situations where they find themselves on a penalty kill.

Third Period: The trends continued. The Penguins scored in the period and took more stupid. post whistle penalties.

Rutger. McGroarty obliterates a puck and it’s 6-1.

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But then the Penguins continued to take stupid, post white penalties and this time Cole Knuble scored on a power play to make it 6-2 Penguins.

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(it was Star Wars (Trek?) night in Allentown)

The thing about AHL officiating is that they always referee the score when a team is getting blow out and this is always more prevalent when the team getting blown out is the home team.

Wilkes-Barre thinks that rules don’t apply to them when it comes to playing Lehigh Valley though, which I suppose. If you’re obliterating a common opponent 12 times a season and this is the last time you see them until the Fall, I guess it’s like the last day of school.

Three Stars: 3) Cole Knuble (goal) 2) Rutger McGroarty (goal, two assists) 1) Aaron Huglen (hat trick, assist)

The Good: They put away a team that knocked them out of the playoffs for the past two seasons three straight times, essentially ending Lehigh Valley’s chances at a playoff berth. The Penguins may get knocked out of the playoffs again this season, but it’s not going to be the Phantoms showing them the door.

The Bad: Please for the love of god stop taking stupid post whistle penalties.

Turning Point: Game was essentially over before it was five minutes old. A three goal avalanche to start the program ends any Phantoms chance of a comeback or the opportunity to turn it into a competitive game.

Around the Division: No help from the Marlies, who lose 5-1 to the Charlotte Checkers…Rochester beats Providence 2-1 in overtime. The Bruins will have to wait another day to sew up the divisional crown….Herhsey obliterates Hartford 8-1…Springfield beats Syracuse 4-3 in as shootout.

Standings: Providence 104 – Penguins 94 – Charlotte 89 – Bridgeport 68 – Hershey 67 – Springfield 66 – Lehigh Valley 62 – Hartford 56

Wheeling Update: Nailers win 4-2 in Toledo. Ryan McAllister had a pair of goals.

Video Highlights: I gave you the gist of it above, here’s the YouTube page for the Phantoms if you are interested. (the highlights aren’t up at 10:10 p.m. on Saturday)

More this week for the Thursday road game in Bridgeport and this weekend.

Let’s go Pens!

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A lunchpail type game for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins who outlast visiting Lehigh Valley 3-1 on Friday night. Avery Hayes factored into all three goals with a goal and two assists and Sergei Murashov was stellar in net, stopping 23 shots and picking up his first career assist. Gabe Klassen rose from the ashes with a goal and an assist as well as the Penguins took their lunchpail to the arena and were able to win.

Magic number for the bye in the first round is six points with the Checkers winning 3-2 in Toronto Friday as well. The Penguins have a game in hand on Charlotte and the tiebreaker here.

I’d forget about catching Providence, their magic number for the division is 2 and they don’t play anyone good the rest of the way. Congrats Bruins, see you in a few weeks?

Anyway here’s how they lined up…

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Lineup Notes: Zach Urdahl, Nolan Renwick and Zach Gallant out for Avery Hayes, Rutger McGroarty and Ville Koivunen. Tanner Howe stayed on the top line (I was worried that would change with the influx of reinforcements) – Finn Harding for Scooter Brickey on defense.

First Period: Good thing they started on time tonight. Wilkes-Barre jumps out to a 2-0 lead on goals from Gabe Klassen and on the breakaway from Avery Hayes. Shots ended up 18-6 Penguins after the first. Here’s the goals.

https:/twitter.com/WBSPenguins/status/2040211806971367663

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Second Period: I didn’t like the vibe. The Penguins were giving away power plays to the Phantoms left and right, Sergei Murashov was outstanding the period where there were no goals. Raivis Ansons had this fight here which was the highlight of the period.

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Good to see actually, a big (clean) hit that leads to a fight. That’s what the crowd wants to see.

Third Period: Game opened up for a bit with few stoppages but the Phantoms kept the pressure. They finally get one to go when Oliver Bonk tips in a Lane Pederson shot that spoils the Sergei Murashov shutout bid.

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But finally the Penguins would put the game away when Rafaël Harvey-Pinard scores on an empty net goal.

Three Stars: 3) Sergei Murashov (23 shots) 2) Gabe Klassen (goal, assist) 1) Avery Hayes (goal, two assists)

The Good: Picked up two more points against a rival and desperate opponent that may miss out on a playoff berth this season and this game may be the final nail.

The Bad: Didn’t like the vibe from the second period on. A higher caliber team takes advantage of that.

Turning Point: It was hold onto your butts until the Harvey-Pinard empty netter which gets it here.

Around the Division: Gave you the Charlotte result above. Hershey is in danger of missing out on a playoff berth as well after a 4-2 setback in Springfield. Providence wins 4-2 in Syracuse, Bridgeport wins 4-2 at home against Hartford.

Standings: Providence 103 – Penguins 92 – Charlotte 87 – Bridgeport 68 – Hershey 65 – Springfield 64 – Lehigh Valley 62 – Hartford 56

Wheeling Update: Nailers were off.

Video Highlights: 

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Back at it for the final time in Allentown Saturday. More then.

Let’s Go Pens!

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From yesterday’s Bold Prediction that ran in Saturday morning’s Weekend Preview…

Nail biter and win against Laval Saturday and then a blow out win against a tired Lehigh Valley on Sunday. Come Monday there’s a line out the door at Abide for free coffees before the Monday morning workday begins.

A dominating performance by the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins who dispatch of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms with a 5-1 win on Sunday afternoon on a goal and three assists from Tanner Howe, who jumped onto the top line with Joona Koppanen and Rafaël Harvey-Pinard, who also scored goals in a laugher of a hockey game that the Penguins were in control of from the drop.

A 7-1 Phantoms shot disparity to start the game? Didn’t matter.

Five penalties against? Killed them all.

Howe had a goal and two assists by the first intermission as the Penguins were in command 3-0. Joel Blomqvist had his shutout bid broken up with under two minutes to play in the third period when an Adam Ginning shot was tipped in by Zayde Wisdom. Blomqvist would make 30 saves.

Here’s how they lined up…

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Lineup Notes: Apparently Avery Hayes was not an injury scratch, so read into that however you may. Zach Gallant replaced him. Scooter Brickey for Finn Harding on defense was the other change.

First Period: Gave some of the action away in the paragraphs above, so let’s roll from there.

Phantoms had the first two power plays of the game killed.

Joona Koppanen opens the scoring with a nice feed from Tanner Howe, then Chase Pietila answers after a gong show performance in goal from Carson Bjarnason, then Howe is rewarded with a goal via tap in and Wilkes-Barre was off to the races…

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Second Period: Aidan McDonough scores his fourth goal in as many games at least, this time on the power play and it’s a 4-0 lead…

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Enjoy that free coffee at Abide tomorrow, tell them Donzo sent you.

Lehigh Valley was getting frustrated with the officiating, trying to rope in the Penguins, but cooler heads prevailed on the side of the home team.

Third Period: Howe would secondarily assist on a Harvey-Pinard tap in goal as he and Joona Koppanen continued to produce and it’s 5-0 Penguins…

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Only question as time dwindled would be would the Phantoms be shutout and Zayde Wisdom ensured that answer would be no.

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The hand / eye coordination to tip a shot zipping at you with your stick in traffic, on ice on skates is something I will always be in awe of.

Three Stars: 3) Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (goal, two assists) 2) Joona Koppanen (goal, two assists) 1) Tanner Howe (goal, three assists)

The Good: Do not, under any circumstances, break up that line if you are Kirk MacDonald. He found money here.

The Bad: Blomqvist was robbed a star of the game because his team let one in on him. It’s nitpicking.

Turning Point: The Howe goal in the first gets it here because maybe you can chip away at a 2-0 lead. The Phantoms were doing all they could to beat Blomqvist, the Penguins would just transition the other way and score. You wish they were all this easy.

Around the Division: Providence loses 4-2 to Springfield….Charlotte needs a shootout to beat Hartford 2-1.

Standings: Providence 99 – Penguins 90 – Charlotte 83 – Hershey 65 – Bridgeport 64 – Springfield 62 – Lehigh Valley 62 – Hartford 56

Wheeling Update: Nailers win again over Worcester and are playoff bound. 4-1 win there.

Video Highlights: 

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Have a great week. I will be back here Friday morning with the Weekend Preview setting up the home and home with these very Phantoms starting Friday in Wilkes-Barre.

Let’s Go Pens!

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It’s the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins 40th win of the season, second time that Kirk MacDonald has achieved same as the Penguins outlast the Laval Rocket 3-1 on Saturday night.

I think that Avery Hayes is the straw that stirs the drink and it’s no coincidence that they are winning again with Hayes in the lineup.

But the bigger story is where would the team be without Aidan McDonough? More on that in a minute.

Here’s how they lined up:

Lineup Notes: Next time I am putting the Weekend Preview out five minutes before puck drop because Avery Hayes and Joona Koppanen were sent back to Wilkes-Barre and it was Rutger McGroarty that went up. Melvin Fernstrom (injured), Ville Koivunen and McGroarty (recall) out, Zack Urdahl, Nolan Renwick and Raivis Ansons in. No changes on defense.

First Period: Wilkes-Barre held Laval without a shot till 13:56, outshooting the Rocket 8-0 at that time but it squared up after that.

An Avery Hayes shorthanded goal made it 1-0 Penguins.

Hayes scored on Hunter Shepard, and you’ll never convince me that he doesn’t look like Groucho Marx.

Also, no one under 50 gets the reference but let’s move on….

Second Period: Laval fired 17 shots on Sergei Murashov and he kept the Penguins in it and the Rocket out of the net.

But then the Penguins started running into problems with the officiating, Jack Young in particular who awarded the Rocket three consecutive power plays. He called a tacky tack hook call on Atley Calvert like it was a 5-0 whitewashing and this further incensed the Penguins when Alex Belzile scored.

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Wilkes-Barre will see Young again Sunday, just so you know.

Remember when I was saying about Aidan McDonough?

14 seconds later…

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Easily the MVP of the team min my opinion. Where would the Penguins be if not for Aidan McDonough? Time and time again he has come through in the clutch for this team.

Third Period: An excellent defensive play by Finn Harding in his own zone and outlet pass to Avery Hayes sees Hayes score his second of the game and give the Penguins a 3-1 lead that Laval would never be able to overcome.

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Late, a yeoman like shift turned in by Alex Alexeyev who, without a skate blade, manages to block a couple shots and keep Laval from scoring with Shepard pulled.

Three Stars: 3) Aidan McDonough (goal) 2) Sergei Murashove (33 saves) 1) Avery Hayes (two goals, assist)

The Good: Playoff like atmosphere and playoff like intensity from two teams who have already punched their ticket. Last regular season meeting between these two teams, perhaps they meet up again in about two months?

The Bad: I don’t want to whine about officiating in a 3-1 win so I won’t, but it was questionable at best at times.

Turning Point: That McDonough goal gets it here and I get a sense it may be bigger then just a turning point in this game, but a turning point in the season.

Around the Division: Lehigh Valley beats Hershey 4-2…Charlotte beats Hartford 2-1 in overtime..Providence beats Bridgeport 6-4.

Standings: Providence 99 – Penguins 88 – Charlotte 81 – Hershey 65 – Bridgeport 64 – Lehigh Valley 62 – Springfield 62 – Hartford 55

Wheeling Update: Nailers lead the Worcester Railers 2-1 late in the third when this goes up at about 9:50 p.m. on the blog. Box here.

Video Highlights:

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More Sunday after the Phantoms drop in.

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Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins play by play man almost foreshadowed his team to possible disappointment.

Hart stated at the end of the second period when the Penguins were up 4-1 that back in November the Toronto Marlies overcame a three goal deficit and defeated the Penguins that night.

Disaster averted. Despite a pair of goals by ex-Penguin Alex Nylander, Wilkes-Barre holds on to win 4-3 Sunday afternoon in Toronto.

Here’s how they lined up…

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Lineup Notes: Ville Koivunen was assigned down from Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon and was in town so made it in the lineup, replacing Zach Gallant. On defense, Chase Pietila for Emil Pieniniemi on defense.

First Period: They certainly started on time to the tune of three goals.

Avery Hayes on the power play at 5:11, followed by Hayes setting up Rafaël Harvey-Pinard in transition at 15:17 and then Aidan McDonough scoring his 18th goal of the season on a wrist shot at 16:54.

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Shots were 9-4 and but for a few early scares, Joel Blomqvist had the Marlies shooters covered.

To quote an old friend, the period was okay if you like perfect.

Second Period: Harvey-Pinard potted his second of the game off of a rebound of a Finn Harding shot and the Penguins were up 4-0.

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We don’t see enough of Toronto to. know if this is their modus operandi, but they were a totally different team after this.

A Ben King goal was put in after Brandon Buhr broke away and had a shot on Blomqvist. Blomqvist stopped prior breakaways and this one here, and nearly got over to the King rebound try but it beat him.

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Third Period: Wilkes-Barre lost Melvin Fernstrom to an injury when he was caught awkwardly on the boards by Blake Smith. He skated off with his right arm dangling and didn’t return.

Alex Nylander got the Marlies to one on two different occasions. The first came on the power play after a questionable penalty against Alex Alexeyev and then at even strength after a blown assignment.

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But the Marlies would get no closer, but if there were five to seven minutes left in regulation then there were in reality, I am not too sure that Toronto would have tied it and maybe took the lead.

Disaster averted. This time.

Three Stars: 3) Avery Hayes (goal, assist) 2) Alex Nylander (two goals) 1) Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (two goals)

The Good: I have waited all season for Harvey-Pinard to start cooking and it looks like he’s warming up. If you get him going, mix in a Hayes goal like you did today with output from Koivunen and hopefully a returning Tristan Broz, this team can go far.

The Bad: I don’t know what happened when they went up 4-0. They nearly played two completely different halves of hockey here. Gangbusters the first thirty minutes and then edge of your seat let’s try not to blow this in the final thirty minutes. That strategy is not going to work in mid-to late April.

Turning Point: The second Harvey-Pinard goal gets it here because it was what won them the game, we just were oblivious to it at the time.

Around the Division: At 7 p.m. on Sunday, Bridgeport looks like they are headed for a home and home sweep of the Hershey Bears, up 5-1 when this post goes up…other games final as Charlotte sweeps Lehigh Valley with a 6-2 win ad Rochester beats Hartford 6-3.

Standings: Providence 95 – Penguins 86 – Charlotte 79 – that’s all that matters really, as I can’t give you the Hershey points because they are still playing. If you are interested late Sunday night or anytime after that, click here.

Wheeling Update: The Nailers sweep the Trois-Rivières Lions 3-1. Raivos Ansons and Logan Pietila had goals and Max Pavlenko stopped 26 shots.

Video Highlights: Marlies YouTube page is here. I note that because the highlights aren’t posted yet so if you want to go hunting, click here.

They are off till Saturday when they host the Laval Rocket on Saturday and then the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on (sigh) Sunday afternoon. I’ll have the Weekend Preview up on Saturday morning bright and early with the latest on the rest of those rascals. Regular blog readers know wheat I am talking about.

Have a great week.

Let’s Go Pens!