{"id":151401,"date":"2026-03-29T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:45:08","slug":"penguins-beat-rocket-nailers-clinch-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151401\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins beat Rocket, Nailers clinch playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of goals and an assist by forward Avery Hayes led the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins to <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1028787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 3-1 win against the Laval Rocket<\/a> at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Aidan McDonough also contributed a goal for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (40-16-6-2).<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 33 saves on 34 shots and improved his record to 22-8-3.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins forward Melvin Fernstrom was scratched due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u2019 next game is a home contest against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Sunday, 3:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Wheeling Nailers secured a berth in the ECHL\u2019s Kelly Cup Playoffs with <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/03\/28\/wheeling-nailers-vs-worcester-railers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 2-1 win against the Worcester Railers<\/a> at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 49 saves on 50 shots, boosting his mark to 18-7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Matty De St. Phalle and Connor Lockhart each scored goals for Wheeling (41-16-3-3), which extended a winning streak to seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>The Nailers\u2019 next game is a home contest against the Railers on Sunday, 4:10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of goals and an assist by forward Avery Hayes led the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins to a 3-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-151401","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\/151401","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=151401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}