Wilkes-Barre/Scranton scored with their first shot of the game when Tanner Howe stole the puck from Hershey’s David Gucciardi in Gretzky’s office and passed it to alternate captain Joona Koppanen who finished with the game-opening goal from the slot at the 1:15 mark of the first. For the next 11:18 minutes the Penguins outshot the Bears 11-3, but then after Hershey began rebounding back and outshooting Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4-2 for the next 6:18 minutes, the Penz slipped up and put the Bears on the power play which forward Ivan Mioshnichenko cashed in five seconds before first intermission.
