Avery Hayes scored twice and Aidan McDonough\u2019s goal in the second period proved the game-winner as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins extended their winning streak to three with a 3-1 victory over Laval on Saturday night at Mohegan Arena.<\/p>\n
The Penguins (40-16-6-2) sit in second place in the Atlantic Division behind first-place Providence with eight games remaining in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Hayes scored his first goal of the night at 16:16 of the first period to give the Pens a 1-0 lead. It was a shorthanded goal. Laval\u2019s Alex Belzile scored his 28th of the season at 19:02 of the second period to tie the game, 1-1. The goal came on the power play.<\/p>\n
McDonough answered at 19:16 of the second period with his 19th of the season to put the Penguins ahead, 2-1. Gabe Klassen and Hayes were given an assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
Hayes then gave the Penguins some breathing room with his 22nd goal of the season at 4:27 of the third period. Finn Harding got the assist, his 15th of the season.<\/p>\n
Sergei Murashov got the start in goal and recorded 33 saves on 34 shots. Laval finished the game with a 34-24 advantage in shots on goal. Laval was 1 for 4 on the power play, while the Penguins went 0 for 4.<\/p>\n
The Penguins return home Sunday afternoon at 3:05 to host Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avery Hayes scored twice and Aidan McDonough\u2019s goal in the second period proved the game-winner as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton…\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":["post-151301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-penguins","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301","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=151301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301\/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=151301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}