The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins continued to dominate the season series with rival Lehigh Valley, defeating the Phantoms, 5-1, on Sunday afternoon at Mohegan Arena.<\/p>\n
The Penguins (41-16-6-2) extended their winning streak to four game and improved to 17-9-4-1 at home. They are also 8-0-1-1 on the season against the Phantoms.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton scored the first five goals in cruising to the victory. Joona Koppanen, Chase Pietila and Tanner Howe scored in a 7:37 span of the first period to jump out to a 3-0 lead. Howe was particularly effective in the first period, recording two assists besides scoring his goal. He later assisted on a Rafael Harvey-Pinard\u2019s goal in the third period to give him eight for the season. Pinard finished with two assists.<\/p>\n
Late in the second period, Aidan McDonough scored his 20th of the season at 18:24 to make it 4-0. It was his fourth straight game with a goal.<\/p>\n
Pinard scored his 18th of the season at 4:20 of the third to make it 5-0. Koppanen, who had two assists, now has 14 for the season.<\/p>\n
Joel Blomqvist started in goal for the Penguins and stopped the first 30 shots he faced before Lehigh Valley\u2019s Zayde Wisdom deflected a puck past him with 1:18 remaining to spoil the shutout bid.<\/p>\n
The Penguins outshot Lehigh Valley, 34-31, and went 1 of 3 on the power play. Lehigh Valley was 0 for 5 with the man advantage.<\/p>\n
Of the seven games left in the regular season, the Penguins will play five at home. They return to Mohegan Arena on Friday night at 7:05 to host Lehigh Valley. The next night they play the Phantoms in Allentown at 7:05 p.m. The final game of the regular season is April 18 at home against Rochester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins continued to dominate the season series with rival Lehigh Valley, defeating the Phantoms, 5-1, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-151981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151981","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=151981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}