{"id":129366,"date":"2026-03-04T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129366\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:23:06","slug":"wilkes-weekly-murashovs-save-of-the-year-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129366\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes Weekly: Murashov\u2019s save of the year candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Friday, Feb. 27 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028587&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 3 at Cleveland 2<\/a><br \/>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton took the lead with a pair of quick goals and never looked back to defeat Cleveland in a spirited bout to start the weekend. Atley Calvert and Ville Koivunen scored 45 seconds apart to put the Penguins up 2-0 in the first period. Aidan McDonough buried one 23.8 seconds before the second intermission, keeping the team ahead 3-1. The Monsters made it a one-goal game in the third, but Joel Blomqvist was a fortress late, ensuring Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton got the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Saturday, Feb. 28 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028595&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 1 at Cleveland 2<\/a> (OT)<br \/>Another nail-biter between the Penguins and Monsters went to overtime, where Cleveland picked up its league-leading 10th OT win of the year. The Monsters struck first, but a power-play goal in the second period by Matt Dumba equalized. Koivunen posted an assist on the goal, running his point streak to six games. Sergei Murashov made 27 stops, including a save-of-the-year candidate when the game was tied 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, Feb. 27 \u2013 PENGUINS 3 at Cleveland 2Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton took the lead with a pair of quick goals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,57832],"class_list":["post-129366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wbs-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129366","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=129366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}