{"id":135768,"date":"2026-03-11T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:24:07","slug":"wilkes-weekly-comebacks-needed-but-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135768\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes Weekly: Comebacks needed but not found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Wednesday, Mar. 4 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028627&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 4 vs. Springfield 5<\/a><br \/>A spirited third-period comeback fell short in a razor-thin, month-opening loss for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. Aidan McDonough scored twice on the power play and set up Tanner Howe for a four-on-four goal in between. McDonough\u2019s three points helped tie the game, 3-3, but a man-advantage marker and subsequent empty netter gave Springfield enough insurance to survive another late surge by Rafa\u00ebl Harvey-Pinard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Friday, Mar. 6 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028639&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 2 at Syracuse 3<\/a> (OT)<br \/>The Penguins came back from down 2-0 to force overtime, but lost on a power-play goal in extra time. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s rally started with Rutger McGroarty tallying 90 seconds into the second period. Melvin Fernstr\u00f6m notched the tying goal with 23.6 seconds left in regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Mar. 4 \u2013 PENGUINS 4 vs. Springfield 5A spirited third-period comeback fell short in a razor-thin, month-opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,57832],"class_list":["post-135768","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\/135768","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=135768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}