{"id":147926,"date":"2026-03-25T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147926\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:27:07","slug":"wilkes-weekly-pens-clinch-ahl-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147926\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes Weekly: Pens clinch AHL playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Wednesday, Mar. 18 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028715&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 1 at Laval 5<\/a><br \/>Gabe Klassen scored Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s only goal in its first meeting with the North Division-leading Rocket. As a result, the Penguins have lost five in a row at Place Bell, with their last victory in Laval coming on Jan. 13, 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Friday, Mar. 20 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028723&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 2 at Belleville 1<\/a> (SO)<br \/>A 28-save night by Joel Blomqvist helped the Pens win a war of attrition against the Sens. Aidan McDonough logged a power-play goal in the middle frame, and Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton went three-for-three in the shootout with strikes from McDonough, Klassen and Avery Hayes. Blomqvist denied the league\u2019s top goal-scorer, Arthur Kaliyev, to earn his first AHL shootout win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Sunday, Mar. 22 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028754&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 4 at Toronto 3<\/a><br \/>The Penguins constructed a commanding 4-0 lead, which proved to be important insurance after a third-period fright from the Marlies. Hayes and McDonough both secured one-goal, one-assist first periods, while Rafa\u00ebl Harvey-Pinard lit the lamp twice, including the game-winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Mar. 18 \u2013 PENGUINS 1 at Laval 5Gabe Klassen scored Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s only goal in its first meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,57832],"class_list":["post-147926","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\/147926","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=147926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}