{"id":130024,"date":"2026-03-05T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:57:06","slug":"minor-league-report-penguins-fall-to-thunderbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130024\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor league report: Penguins fall to Thunderbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward Aidan McDonough had two goals and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1028627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 5-4 loss to the Springfield Thunderbirds<\/a> at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (36-14-4-2) also got two assists from forward Rugter McGroarty, while forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard and Tanner Howe each contributed a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Joel Blomqvist\u2019s record fell to 10-5-3 after he made 17 saves on 21 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Penguins forward Tristan Broz was scratched due to an undisclosed injury that has been labeled as \u201cweek to week,\u201d according to the team\u2019s radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u2019 next game is a road contest against the Syracuse Crunch on Friday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Aidan McDonough had two goals and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in a 5-4 loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-130024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130024","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=130024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}