Brendan Gaunce scored at the 2:45 mark in overtime to lead Cleveland to a 4-3 victory over the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins on Sunday afternoon at Mohegan Arena.<\/p>\n
Gaunce\u2019s goal, his eighth of the season, sent the Penguins to their second consecutive loss. The Pens came off a 5-0 loss at home to Syracuse on Saturday night. Dysin Mayo and Jack Williams were credited with an assist on the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n
Cleveland took a 1-0 lead when Max McCue scored his first of the season at 1:56 of the first period. Rutger McGroarty tied it for the Penguins at 5:29 with his fifth of the year. After the Monsters grabbed a 2-1 lead, the Penguins tied the game when Ville Koivunen scored his seventh of the year.<\/p>\n
The Monsters took a 3-2 lead when Mikael Pyyhtia scored the only goal of the second period at 9:56. It was his 11th of the year. Gaunce was given the assists. Emil Pieniniemi scored his first of the season for the Penguins at 0:43 of the third period to tie the game, 3-3. Finn Harding and Koivunen had the assists.<\/p>\n
Cleveland finished the game 1 of 2 on the power play while the Penguins went 1 for 4. Joel Blomqvist started in goal for the Penguins and recorded 13 saves on 16 shots in 29:56 of action. Sergei Murashov made 14 saves on 15 shots in 32:50 of ice time.<\/p>\n
The Penguins (32-13-3-2) are in second place in the Atlantic Division, six points behind first place Providence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Gaunce scored at the 2:45 mark in overtime to lead Cleveland to a 4-3 victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1902,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-114906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-penguins","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}