{"id":164905,"date":"2026-04-13T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164905\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:01:08","slug":"penguins-photoblog-steamtown-gandy-dancers-ride-the-rails-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164905\/","title":{"rendered":"PENGUINS PHOTOBLOG: &#8216;Steamtown Gandy Dancers&#8217; ride the rails to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebranding the team for one night only to reflect local history, the \u201cSteamtown Gandy Dancers\u201d (old slang for railroad workers) hammered home a first-round bye in the Calder Cup Playoffs on the fourth annual Community Night at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moheganarenapa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mohegan Arena<\/a> last night. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbspenguins.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/a> clinched second place in the Atlantic Division, led by two goals from Aiden McDonough and 25 saves by Joel Blomqvist.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nepascene.com\/category\/lifestyle\/penguins-photoblog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins Photoblog<\/a> captures exciting moments and players from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins hockey games at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebranding the team for one night only to reflect local history, the \u201cSteamtown Gandy Dancers\u201d (old slang for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5158,74323,1902,4044,24603,178,180,179,2685],"class_list":{"0":"post-164905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-mohegan-arena","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-photography","12":"tag-railroad","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news","16":"tag-wilkes-barre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164905","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=164905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}