{"id":466022,"date":"2026-02-08T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:49:10","slug":"avery-hayes-hat-trick-leads-penguins-to-overtime-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466022\/","title":{"rendered":"Avery Hayes\u2019 hat trick leads Penguins to overtime win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward Avery Hayes completed a hat trick with an overtime power-play goal and gave the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1028489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 4-3 win against the rival Hershey Bears<\/a> at the Giant Center in Hershey on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During regulation, Hayes scored another power-play goal as well as a short-handed goal.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty each recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (32-12-2-2) while forward Melvin Fernstrom contributed a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 20 saves on 23 shots to improve his record to 18-5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton enters the American Hockey League\u2019s All-Star break with a five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u2019 next game is a home contest against the Syracuse Crunch on Feb. 14, 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Maxim Pavlenko made 31 saves for the Wheeling Nailers in <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/02\/07\/wheeling-nailers-vs-cincinnati-cyclones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 6-0 win against the Cincinnati Cyclones<\/a> at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va.<\/p>\n<p>The result was Pavlenko\u2019s third shutout of the season and improved his record to 10-8-0.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Brayden Edwares and Max Graham each had a goal and an assist for Wheeling (28-12-2-2) while forward Matty De St. Phalle and defenseman Tristan Thompson each contributed two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>The Nailers\u2019 next game is a road contest against the Indy Fuel on Wednesday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Avery Hayes completed a hat trick with an overtime power-play goal and gave the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-466022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}