{"id":691242,"date":"2026-05-24T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:46:09","slug":"minor-league-report-penguins-advance-nailers-drop-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691242\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor league report: Penguins advance, Nailers drop Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two goals and two assists by forward Tristan Broz propelled the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins to <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1029034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a series-clinching 8-1 rout of the Springfield Thunderbirds<\/a> at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins won the best-of-five series, 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Broz\u2019s linemate, Ville Koivunen, had two goals and an assist while forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard, back in the lineup after missing five games due to an undisclosed injury, contributed two goals.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 26 saves on 27 shots, improving his postseason record to 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins defenseman Owen Pickering was scratched due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins will face either the Cleveland Monsters or Toronto Marlies in the Eastern Conference final. Those teams will meet in Game 5 of the North Division final series (also best-of-five) at 3 p.m. Sunday at Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton last reached a conference final in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Wheeling Nailers <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/05\/23\/florida-everblades-vs-wheeling-nailers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">were shut out, 1-0, by the Florida Everblades<\/a> in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final at Hertz Arena in Estero, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Florida leads the best-of-seven series, 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Nailers goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 29 saves on 30 shots as his postseason mark fell to 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>In the Everblades\u2019 net, goaltender Cam Johnson made 20 saves to record his third shutout of the playoffs and boost his record to 10-1.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 is scheduled for Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. at Wheeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two goals and two assists by forward Tristan Broz propelled the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins to a series-clinching 8-1 rout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-691242","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\/691242","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=691242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}