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Posted by nafsnep on November 4, 2018
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I said this in my Friday game recap after the first period of action against Hartford when it was 2-2 after 20 minutes of play…
Four goals in 10:50. The Penguins don’t like to play run and gun and would lose more than they would win playing that style, so the game at that point needed to slow down for success to occur.
An 8-5 setback in Bridgeport Sunday afternoon / evening. More like evening, despite the game ending at quarter to six on Sunday. It’s dark now. It didn’t start getting dark until 8:30 just a few weeks ago. Summer is a distant memory…
Anyway.
The run and gun style is not the style that the Penguins can play with any kind of success, they just don’t have the firepower up front to get it all to click at one time in one game. Sound Tigers go up 4-1 after the first Sunday, were up 7-1 at one point in the second period before the Penguins claw back in the third when the game was well decided.
Credit the Penguins for not giving up, not rolling over, not getting injured. They lost Zach Trotman at some point to an injury early in the second but ran out of time in trying to mount anything close to a comeback. It’s a weird game because the Penguins will win 90% of the games where they score at least five goals, but giving up four in the first to an opponent, facing a seven goal deficit to the opponent at some point in the game and no team anywhere is going to have success against their opponent.
So where do we go from here, 1-2 on the weekend? The start. The start for the Penguins both games Saturday and Sunday has been less than stellar. Nick Hart on radio hyped up the Penguins being, “ready” for the Sound Tigers and Ryan Haggerty talking about, “showtime” as he stepped off of the bus Sunday morning.
Haggerty was held without a point and was a -2.
But I am not picking on Haggerty. The Penguins simply were not ready to play today, down 3-0 before the half way point of the game. Anthony Peters got the start for Wilkes-Barre / Scranton but was relieved by Tristan Jarry in the second period onward. The Penguins are not going to want to have Jarry or Peters or whoever it is appear in three straight games back-to-back-to-back, The starts have been poor, (going down 2-0 in the first 12 minutes Saturday; the run and gun in the first Friday) and they need to improve, quickly.
Silver linings were Zach Aston-Reese’s hat trick and assist, Garrett Wilson’s three point (2-1) game and Ethan Prow’s three assist as Prow remains one of the best defensemen in the AHL. The Penguins connected on three power play goals.
Ask yourself this question. Would you rather lose 8-5 or win 8-5 but at some point cough up a six goal lead?
Game story after the jump because it’s going to be a lengthy one on your browser or phone if you didn’t link in direct.
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Posted by nafsnep on November 3, 2018
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Before you start, yes, I know it’s John Fogerty. Work with me, people.
Steven Fogarty’s two goals tonight for the Hartford Wolf Pack and backup goaltender Marek Mazanec’s 35 save performance carry the Wolf Pack in a 3-2 win in Wilkes-Barre against the Penguins.
The Pens found themselves in penalty trouble again, giving up five chances to the visitors and getting scored on once, by Fogarty. It’s an area that they need to clean up and quick.
Another area to clean up is responding on back to back games. The Penguins are now 0-2-0-1 on games where they played the night before. Splitting weekend series is OK, but just OK. The Penguins are mired in the middle of the Atlantic Division now because if it.
No time to rest as the Penguins are right back at it Sunday afternoon in Bridgeport.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) November 3, 2018
Notes: Stefan Elliott was in for Kevin Czuczman, the Penguins probably wanted to ease Czuczman back into things and not play him on back to backs and Jeff Taylor was in for Matt Abt. No changes up front to any of the forward lines.
Tristan Jarry appeared in his 100th AHL game for Wilkes-Barre tonight. He is the fourth goalie in Penguins history to match that feat.
First Period: :35 in, a slashing penalty was called on Thomas DiPauli and Fogarty bagged his first goal of the night on the power play with a back door tap in that gave the Wolf Pack a 1-0 lead.
EDIT: Hold the phone on the above. Sam Lafferty on line one…
The Penguins' first period goal has been switched from Ryan Haggerty to Sam Lafferty, who tipped it in at the netfront. So Lafferty now has goals in two-straight.
Second Period: Fogarty again. He led a two-on-one break while the teams were 4-on-4 and snapped a shot over Jarry’s glove to make it a 2-1 lead for Hartford.
Penguins would get no closer though. With a late power play that spilled over to the…
Third Period: …the Pens would have to kill separate tripping penalties by Sam Lafferty and Tobias Lindberg but couldn’t find the equalizing goal. Garrett Wilson came close, though…
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) November 4, 2018
Around the Division: Every team in the Atlantic Division faced off against the team they played Friday night. Those teams that lost on Friday all won on Saturday but for Charlotte, who is playing on a different planet right now as the first team to ten wins with a 3-2 win against the Providence Bruins. Bridgeport hands Springfield their first regulation loss of the season with a 5-2 decision…Rochester beats Hershey 4-1 and Lehigh Valley, who lost Friday in overtime to the Devils, get two late goals to tie then the overtime goal to win at home and repay the favor to defeat Binghamton 3-2.
Standings: Charlotte 20 – Springfield – 16 – Lehigh Valley 14 – Penguins 13 – Bridgeport, Hartford and Hershey all with 11 in that order – Providence 8
Wheeling Update: Nailers lose in their home opener against the Indy Fuel 5-3. John Muse was in net and took the loss. Troy Josephs had a pair of goals.
If I see a highlight package from Coal Street I will run it here.
Gameday setup for the Sunday affair in Bridgeport hits the blog Sunday at 11. Please don’t forget to turn your clocks back an hour.
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Posted by nafsnep on November 2, 2018
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Got in my truck just in time to hear Penguins play by play man Nick Hart use the headline to tonight’s game recap describing Ethan Prow’s third period power play goal which stood up as the game winner for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, who defeat the Hartford Wolf Pack 5-3.
Prow also added two assists and is among league leaders in +/-. These two teams rematch Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre.
Tristan Jarry, who had an eventful night to say the least, opposed Dustin Tokarski.
Lines were…
Some fresh faces in the lineup tonight, with Kevin Czuczman and Jarrett Burton making their 2018-19 debuts. Take a look at tonight's probable #WBSPens line combinations. #WBS20pic.twitter.com/xEHDw9fkoR
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) November 2, 2018
Lineup Notes: The return of Ryan Haggerty, Jarrett Burton and Kevin Czuczman…
Up front: Angello and Hayes switch lines. Haggerty for Miletic on the second line. Burton and Lindberg replace the fourth line wingers for Horvat and McGrath.
The Penguins would respond about three minutes later. A big hit by the returning Jarrett Burton, who I thought played a hell of a game on the fourth line, set up Tobias Lindberg here…
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 Tobias Lindberg scores his second goal of the season and ties it for the Penguins, 1-1. It all started with @jarrettburton90 forcing a turnover, playing in his first game of the season.
Four goals in 10:50. The Penguins don’t like to play run and gun and would lose more than they would win playing that style, so the game at that point needed to slow down for success to occur.
Second Period: It did, to an extent, in the second period. Penguins came in waves at Tokarski, but the former Calder Cup winner had some key stops that kept his team in the game. Penguins found themselves in late penalty trouble but got out of it heading into the…
Third Period: Tom had a nice tweet summing up how the Penguins came out for the third…
First 6 mins of this period for WBS – Lafferty goal, Prow power play goal and Haggerty fight. That's how you put a team away.
Ryan Haggerty laid a big hit on Libor Hajek that he had to fight Chris Bigras on and the Penguins were off to the races.
They couldn’t close it out when they had a :23 two man advantage, and then they let it slip a bit when Cole Schneider scored on an extended two man advantage for Hartford, that pulled the Wolf Pack to within one…
But the Penguins killed off the rest of the penalties (they did not have a good night overall, Hartford connected on three power play goals, but got the kill there) setting up Anthony Angello off of a face-off.
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 @Anthony_Angello rips it and the Penguins lead 5-3. Tokarski never saw it coming. What a shot.
Damn. Jarry shoots it at the empty net, Tokarski throws his stick to stop it. Normally when there is no goaltender in the net, since you can't award a penalty shot, it's just a goal. Official signaled goal, but they took it back because Tokarski never made it off the ice. pic.twitter.com/OuGoG7DOni
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) November 3, 2018
Around the Division: Charlotte runs the record to 9-1, holding on to defeat the Providence Bruins 4-3. Those two rematch tomorrow in Charlotte… Binghamton clips the mercurial Lehigh Valley Phantoms in overtime 4-3… The Big Bear Machine is warming up! Hershey cools off Rochester 4-2. Those two rematch in Chocolatetown Saturday night… Springfield remains the only team in the AHL without a regulation loss with a 3-2 win at home against Bridgeport.
Standings: Charlotte 18 – Springfield 16 – Penguins 13 – Lehigh Valley 12 – Hershey 11 – Bridgeport 9 – Hartford 9 – Providence 7
Wheeling Update: The Nailers were off. They have their home opener (yes, on November 3) Saturday agains the Indy Fuel.
Highlights:
Gameday setup for the rematch vs. Hartford hits the blog Saturday at 3.
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Posted by nafsnep on October 27, 2018
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Headline tonight doesn’t contain a pun. A run and gun affair in Hershey ends in a shootout loss for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins. Something seemed off for the Penguins, who never trailed in the game, but never had more than a one goal lead in this Saturday night affair in Hershey.
Tristan Jarry appeared in net again for the Penguins in a back to back start and again was outstanding. Beat on a rim around and then shorthanded in the second and a blown assignment in the third. He opposed Ilya Samsonov, who won his first game in net for the Chocolate and White this season.
Penguins don’t score in the shootout round, Hershey elected to shoot first and scored in the top of the second and the third and take the extra point. Penguins lose 4-3.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 27, 2018
Notes: No changes up front, same lineup as Friday at home. Will O’Neill returned and replaced Matt Abt. Ethan Prow and Jeff Taylor were paired up on defense.
First Period: :06 in, Liam O’Brien and Penguins captain Garrett Wilson dropped the gloves…
Tristan Jarry looked dialed in as he was Friday at home. He had a glove save on one of the thirteen shots on goal for the Bears in the period. Then Stefan Elliott fell down and Liam O’Brien had a chance at Jarry that he made a save on.
Zach Aston-Reese scored the only goal in the period when a puck found his stick in his own end, he took it out and scored with a Bears defenders stick in his skates…
Second Period: Chris Summers returned for the second period but at some point Sam Miletic was lost to injury.
In the first minute of the period, Bears went for a dump in and the puck took a funny bounce where Mike Sgarbossa deposited it into the empty net when Jarry came out to play it.
Penguins re-establish the lead when Teddy Blueger raced and collected a puck off the side wall, then went back to the slot and flipped a puck past Samsonov to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead.
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 What a play. Angello banks the puck off the boards to get it to Teddy Blueger, Blueger circles back and puts it in the net. 2-1 Penguins.
Penguins had two back to back power plays but they were a nightmare. So much so, that Hershey scored on one of them when Riley Barber snuck behind the Penguins defense and scored shorthanded.
Sam Miletic was injured in the second period. He was hit by Connor Hobbs. No penalty on the play. Here is the sequence…
VIDEO: Here is where Sam Miletic was injured, first minute of the second period. Hit along the wall by Connor Hobbs. 10-27 @ Hershey: pic.twitter.com/0nFJmEkBbF
They lost him on defense, pass found him and connected.
Penguins had to kill a bunch of penalties which included a 5-on-3 against and got out of it. Tristan Jarry carried the Penguins to overtime.
Overtime: I Periscoped it. I remembered that I had that live streaming device and decided now was as good a time as ever to start a stream. Here it is, all 5:00, here for you.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 28, 2018
No scoring in overtime, so out was off to a shootout.
Shootout: Nothing doing in round one. Riley Barber went over Jarry’s glove in the top of the second, Jimmy Hayes was unsuccessful in his attempt and Shane Gersich scored in the top of the third to seal the extra point for Hershey.
That thing I talked about in the open? It could have been Sam Miletic who, it looks like, will be out for a bit.
Donatelli said Miletic has an upper body injury. Week-to-week
Donatelli chalked the loss up to penalties (too many), poor power play (missing Miletic) and a dropoff from several players, namely rookies playing in Hershey for the 1st time. "You're not going to have the A game all the time, but our drop was too big for a lot of our guys."
Standings: Charlotte 16 – Springfield 12 – Lehigh Valley 11 – Penguins 11 – Hartford 9 – Bridgeport 7 – Hershey 7 – Providence 5.
Wheeling Update: The Nailers pick up their first win of the season with a 3-2 shootout win in Reading. Troy Josephs scored in regulation for the Nailers, he was assigned Saturday afternoon. John Muse picked up the win in his first regular season action of the season, stopping 37 of 39 and all four Royals shooters in the shootout.
Highlights: Hershey was the first, despite using the term I despise…
BEARS WIN! In an instant classic, Hershey defeated the rival Baby Pens, 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday at Giant Center. Here are the highlights from Hershey's first home win of the season. #DefendTheDen#HBHpic.twitter.com/Em3SIljy7b
Penguins are off now until next Friday where they host the Hartford Wolf Pack for a pair of games next weekend on home ice before bussing to Bridgeport on Sunday afternoon. I will fill in news and notes as I get them here on the blog this upcoming week. The Week 4 AHL Power Rankings will be here on Thursday for sure.
Jarry and the skaters ahead of him win tonight on home ice against the Hershey Bears who dressed a 100% max capacity lineup by a score of 4-1.
If you are Hershey starter Vitek Vanecek, those goals you gave up are goals that you want back. I don’t think any of the goals Wilkes-Barre scored tonight beat him clean. Vanecek was named AHL Player of the Week on Monday, by the way.
Felt like Hershey had more shots in the period, but Wilkes-Barre led 10-6 on the shot board heading into the…
Second Period: Tristan Jarry continued to dial in, stopping a Brian Pinho shorthanded chance when Ethan Prow tried very hard to keep the puck in the zone on a power play.
Penguins double up on the scoreboard when Thomas DiPauli blows past Jonas Siegenthaler, puts a shot on that Vanecek saves but Adam Johnson was there for his first goal of the season…
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 Great work from Thomas Di Pauli driving to the net, and Adam Johnson picks up the rebound for his first goal of the season. Penguins lead 2-0.
Bar down and in. Faked a pass to Stefan Elliott which froze Vanecek.
Third Period: Wilkes-Barre was caught watching again in the slot and stone in the shoe Liam O’Brien scored in front to break up the Jarry shutout bid with this goal.
Liam O'Brien gives the Bears their first goal of the game. Penguins lead 3-1.
Game was speeding along, but hit snag after snag. As time started to dwindle, these two teams realized they were rivals and the hitting started picking up. Patrick McGrath pummeled Connor Hobbs in a fight at center ice. Game ended without further incident.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 27, 2018
Around the Division: Charlotte improves to 7-1 with a 4-3 overtime win in Binghamton tonight. All the other slackers teams were off tonight which is rare for a Friday.
Standings: Charlotte 14 – Springfield 10 – Penguins 10 – Lehigh Valley 9 – Hartford 9 – Bridgeport 7 – Providence 5 – Hershey 5
Wheeling Update: Nailers are in Reading, but they play the Royals Saturday.
Highlights: Both teams were quick on them tonight. Here’s Wilkes-Barre’s…
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Posted by nafsnep on October 20, 2018
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It’s good to see that there are teams out there that don’t lay down easy and pack up and call it an evening when they are faced with adversity.
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms will be bussing to Bridgeport, Connecticut Saturday night into Sunday morning for an afternoon affair with the Sound Tigers. After going down 2-0 in the first period Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre, some players for the Phantoms could have packed it in, started conserving energy and coasting a bit for tomorrow’s game in Bridgeport.
But not Scott Gordon’s crew. Undeterred, the Phantoms would go on to outscore Wilkes-Barre 6-1 and turn what looked like a Phantoms rout into a Penguins rout. Lehigh Valley wins 6-3.
If Clark Donatelli is the coach I know him to be, this will be a teachable moment.
Anthony Peters opposed Alex Lyon. Tristan Jarry backed up, it may be time to get a look at what Johnny Muse can do for the Penguins in the pipes. That’s not a knock on either Jarry or Peters, Muse hasn’t played a regular season game yet for the Penguins and may be due.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 20, 2018
Notes: Troy Josephs was in for Ryan Horvat up front and Matt Abt was in for Jeff Taylor.
First Period: In a period where the Penguins put up an eye popping 20 shots on goal, they would race out ahead of the Phantoms and took a 2-0 lead off the stick of Sam Miletic.
A redirect of a Will O’Neill point shot here…
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 Sam Miletic tips in Will O'Neill's shot from the point, and the Penguins take a 1-0 lead. Miletic's second goal in as many games.
A quick start by Wilkes-Barre who were at time running around on the Phantoms but Friedman’s goal had them sticking around heading into the…
Second Period: German Rubtsov wrist shot beat Peters clean to tie the game for Lehigh Valley for exactly the answer the Phantoms were looking for coming out of the intermission…
The Phantoms tie it, 2-2, 6:40 into the second period. Goal from German Rubtsov.
In a game where few penalties were called (and none against the Phantoms) the last thing the you wanted to see was Lehigh Valley going on a power play.
:06 into a Teddy Blueger slashing penalty, Phil Varone scores to give the Phantoms a 3-2 lead…
Aaaaaaand the Phantoms get another one past Peters to take a 3-2 lead. Goal from Phil Varone.
But then the Penguins would get caught in a bad line change and German Rubtsov would score his second of the period and gave the Phantoms a lead they would never relinquish.
The Phantoms take a 4-3 lead in the final minute of the second period. Goal from German Rubtsov.
Two power plays that took :16 total. Price Chopper Market 32 in Kingston sponsors the Penguins penalty kill and Bobby Day never was able to get the sponsor read out. I’d be calling this week to get the money back on this one, but I just named them here. I shop there sometimes. It’s a nice grocery store. They have a seafood department, a butcher shop and a nice deli. You can always tell the quality of a grocery store by its deli.
Anyway.
After some rough stuff in the games final minute that saw Will O’Neill get assessed a game misconduct, a regular misconduct, a fighting major and an instigating minor, the game concluded without further incident.
Update: Lost among the madness is the fact that O’Neill did indeed receive an instigator penalty in the games final five minutes. That carries an automatic one game suspension with it unless it is rescinded. I don’t really see any reason for it to be taken off the board, so expect an announcement from the League Monday or Tuesday announcing that O’Neill is suspended for the next game which will be Friday at home against the Bears.
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 21, 2018
Around the Division: Don’t look now but Hershey collected 5 of 6 points this week and in turn hand Charlotte their first regulation loss of the season, beating the Checkers in shutout fashion 2-0. A 25 save shutout for Vitek Vanecek, who most assuredly you can expect first out of the tunnel at around 6:20 on Friday night in Wilkes-Barre….Springfield sweeps Laval 4-2…Toronto beats Hartford 3-2 and Providence beats up on Bridgeport 5-2.
Standings: Springfield 10 – Charlotte 10 – Hartford 9 – Penguins 8 – Lehigh Valley 6 – Bridgeport, Providence and Hershey with 5 all in that order.
Wheeling Update: I’ll let Taylor sum it up.
Nailers fall to the Cyclones, 4-1. Lynch with the lone Nailers goal. 0-2 to start the season.
They went a full week between their first two games, and they'll go a full week again before their third game, Oct. 27 in Reading. They won't open at home until Nov. 3#Nailers#DKPS
📹 POSTGAME HIGHLIGHTS 📹 – Not the result we were looking for, but a couple of nice tallies from Sam Miletic and Ethan Prow feature in our video recap. #WBS20pic.twitter.com/vR5hoJo95K
— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) October 21, 2018
Pens are off Sunday and have an optional skate Monday. I’m back here Thursday with the Week 3 Power Rankings for sure, may fill in with news as I can scratch them together between now and then.
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Posted by nafsnep on October 19, 2018
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Tristan Jarry took a lot of flak from some of the chicken littles Wednesday night when he came back from Pittsburgh and was named the starter early in the week by Head Coach Clark Donatelli.
“Ride the hot hand in Anthony Peters!” they yelled.
Peters has the best GAA / SV% coming into the week, but he’s not on an NHL contract. Jarry is. The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned Jarry to Wilkes-Barre because he is waiver exempt and he came to Coal Street with orders that he is the starting goalie.
It’s like that line in Captain Phillips.
(Jarry, busts into the coaches office….)
Jarry to Clark Donatelli: Look at me. LOOK AT ME!
(Donatelli looks up from his desk)
Jarry: I am the starting goaltender now.
Jarry lost Wednesday to the 0-5 Bears at the time. I didn’t make him the focal point because the AHL team will always do what the NHL team wants. The AHL is a developmental league. Jarry wasn’t the reason that the Penguins lost the game Wednesday; Vitek Vanecek was, stopping 40 off 42 shots.
But enough about the past, let’s talk about the present.
A comeback in the third led by a power play goal by Teddy Blueger that made it 4-4 then a late go ahead goal by Garrett Wilson which made it 5-4. Late saves by Jarry at the end preserved the win for Wilkes-Barre who improve to 4-1 on this young season.
Notes: No Anthony Angello tonight so everyone moved up one on the right side, Patrick McGrath made his season debut on the fourth line. No other changes to defense. Angello’s status is the ever detailed “day to day.” 🙄
Tonight’s game was Will O’Neill’s 400th AHL game.
First Period: Was a goalie duel to start the game, with Jarry and Hart making some good saves.
But the Phantoms answered right back with less than a minute to play when Mike Vecchione scored on a bouncing, uncontrolled puck that put the Phantoms on even footing heading into the first intermission.
Stefan Elliott can't settle the bouncing puck and the Phantoms get one past Tristan Jarry to tie it, 1-1. Goal from Mike Vecchione.
Second Period: Penguins withstood four Phantoms power plays along with having a Phantoms would be goal taken off the board on account of goalie interference on Jarry and take a 3-2 lead into the third period.
Sam Miletic scored after the Penguins killed a Phantoms carry over power play to open the period on this play…
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 Sam Miletic shoots it into the empty net for his first pro goal after a turnover behind the Phantoms' cage. Miletic's goal made it 2-1 Penguins.
About a minute later, Philippe Myers scored a goal with Jarry screened to tie it.
Then, the game slowed with the Penguins taking penalty after penalty.
Pens get a call go their way when Zach Trotman hit a guy that bowled over Jarry, who never recovered, and a goal was scored.
This is what Phantoms fans are all worked up over. Jarry was knocked down and then had his stick held, both refs signaled no-goal. The right call.#WBSPens#WBSvsLV#DKPSpic.twitter.com/XAGY7uDryA
Immediately waved off by both referees Dan Kelly and Chris Pontes. Look, there are 12 pages in the AHL Rulebook on this type of play. These types of plays are like car crashes. They happen all the time, you just hope you are never involved in one. There never seems to be a right or wrong call and depending on what side you are on, you like or dislike the call.
Zach Aston-Reese scored on a bank pass off of the back boards to give Wilkes-Barre a 3-2 lead.
Those were the last power plays that the Phantoms had for the rest of the game.
Penguins cashed on a power play goal of their own when they kept it in the zone the entire time, and Teddy Blueger scored off of a pass on the pads to tie the game.
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 Teddy Blueger's rebound chance ties it for the Penguins! Blueger's second goal of the season.
Penguins got another power play but were not able to score on it. As time ticked away and it looked like overtime was inevitable, Jimmy Hayes led a two on one, put a shot on Hart that the Phantoms net minder made a stop on but never was able to smother, and Garrett Wilson did this.
🚨 GOAL! 🚨 The captain gives the Penguins the 5-4 lead with 1:04 remaining! Garrett Wilson's third goal of the season.
Tristan Jarry made some saves at the end of the game that preserved the win for his team. Jarry stopped 28 of 32 shots, none bigger then at the end of the game.
Three Stars: 3) Teddy Blueger (goal) 2) TJ Brennan (goal, assist) 1) Garrett Wilson (game winning gaol)
Standings: Charlotte 10 – Hartford 9 – Penguins 8 – Springfield 8 – Bridgeport 5 – Lehigh Valley 4 – Providence 3 – Hershey 3
Wheeling Update: The Nailers were off.
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These two teams rematch Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre. If this game tonight was a preview of what we can expect for 11 more meetings, buckle the hell up. Gameday setup hits the blog Saturday at 3.
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