{"id":699770,"date":"2026-05-28T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:53:09","slug":"marlies-strike-late-to-take-down-penguins-in-game-1-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699770\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlies strike late to take down Penguins in Game 1 | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pezzetta<\/a> scored the go-ahead goal with 1:36 remaining in regulation to lift the visiting Toronto Marlies to a 4-2 win over the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Marlies take their 1-0 series lead into Game 2 on Friday evening (7:05 ET,\u00a0\"\"<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Pezzetta wristed a shot from the top of the left-wing circle that beat Sergei Murashov<\/a> and sent the Marlies to their third consecutive win. Easton Cowan<\/a>, William Villeneuve<\/a> and Logan Shaw<\/a> also scored for Toronto, Henry Thrun<\/a> notched two assists and Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> (8-4) made 34 saves, allowing two goals or fewer for the ninth time in his 12 playoff starts.<\/p>\n

Alexander Alexeyev<\/a> and Rutger McGroarty<\/a> scored for the Penguins, who dropped to 3-3 on home ice this postseason. Murashov (6-4) finished with 12 saves on 15 shots as Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton outshot Toronto, 36-16.<\/p>\n

The Marlies allowed the game\u2019s first goal for the 10th time in 14 playoff contests, but earned their fifth come-from-behind victory of the postseason.<\/p>\n

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(Toronto leads series, 1-0)
Game 1 \u2013 Wed., May 27 \u2013 Toronto 4, W-B\/SCRANTON 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Fri., May 29 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 7:05
Game 3 \u2013 Mon., June 1 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
Game 4 \u2013 Wed., June 3 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 5 \u2013 Fri., June 5 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 6 \u2013 Sun., June 7 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 6:05
*Game 7 \u2013 Tue., June 9 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 7:05
*if necessary\u2026 All times Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Pezzetta scored the go-ahead goal with 1:36 remaining in regulation to lift the visiting Toronto Marlies to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-699770","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\/699770","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=699770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}