{"id":714492,"date":"2026-06-04T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714492\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:35:09","slug":"penguins-capitalize-late-even-series-with-marlies-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714492\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins capitalize late, even series with Marlies | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutger McGroarty<\/a> took advantage of a Marlies turnover with 2:59 left in regulation to send Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton to a 4-3 win over Toronto in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals at Coca-Cola Coliseum on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The best-of-seven series is tied at two games apiece. Game 5 is Friday night in Toronto (7 ET, \"\"<\/a>) before the teams head back to Wilkes-Barre for Game 6 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

With the Marlies trying to move out of their own zone, Easton Cowan<\/a> attempted a pass from the half-wall that was intercepted by McGroarty. The Penguins forward took two strides and snapped a shot between the legs of Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> for what would be his second game-winning goal of the postseason.<\/p>\n

Toronto had tied the game at 3-3 on a power play with 6:56 left in the third when Luke Haymes<\/a> fired a shot through traffic from the bottom of the right-wing circle following wild goal-mouth scramble.<\/p>\n

That came after the Penguins\u2019 lineup showed its depth in erasing a two-goal deficit by scoring three times in the second period. Scooter Brickey<\/a> scored his first career AHL goal, fellow defenseman Chase Pietila<\/a> notched his first of the playoffs after scoring twice in 66 regular-season games, and Gabe Klassen<\/a> gave Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton its first lead of the night with 51 seconds left in the stanza.<\/p>\n

The Marlies got on the board first for the third game in a row when Sergei Murashov<\/a> misplayed a dump-in and Bo Groulx<\/a> tucked in a shorthanded goal 4:19 into the game. Vinni Lettieri<\/a> upped the Toronto lead to 2-0 with a power-play tally at the 14:14 mark.<\/p>\n

Murashov (8-5) finished with 32 saves for the Penguins, while Akhtyamov (9-6) stopped 23 shots for the Marlies.<\/p>\n

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(Series tied, 2-2)
Game 1 \u2013 Wed., May 27 \u2013 Toronto 4, W-B\/SCRANTON 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Fri., May 29 \u2013 Toronto 2, W-B\/SCRANTON 1 (OT)<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Mon., June 1 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton 5, TORONTO 3<\/a>
Game 4 \u2013 Wed., June 3 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton 4, TORONTO 3<\/a>
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":"Rutger McGroarty took advantage of a Marlies turnover with 2:59 left in regulation to send Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-714492","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\/714492","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=714492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}