{"id":176391,"date":"2026-04-26T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:08:08","slug":"penguins-to-face-bears-in-semifnal-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176391\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins to face Bears in semifnal round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins will face the rival Hershey Bears in a best-of-five Atlantic Division semifinal round of the Calder Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>That matchup was determined on Saturday with the sixth-seeded Springfield Thunderbirds defeating the third-seeded Charlotte Checkers in a first-round series. With the second-seeded Penguins receiving a bye through the first round, they wound up being matched against the fifth-seeded Bears, the highest-seeded team to emerge from the first round.<\/p>\n<p>A schedule for the series was also announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>April 30 &#8211; Hershey at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>May 2 &#8211; Hershey at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>May 5 &#8211; Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton at Hershey, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>May 7 &#8211; Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton at Hershey, 7 p.m.-*<\/p>\n<p>May 9 &#8211; Hershey at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 6:05 p.m.-*<\/p>\n<p>*-if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins went 7-3-0-0 against the Bears during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Matthew Quercia had a goal and two assists for the Wheeling Nailers in <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/04\/25\/wheeling-nailers-vs-reading-royals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 5-1 win against the Reading Royals<\/a> in Game 2 of a North Division semifinal round at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nailers lead the best-of-seven series, 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Craig Armstrong and Blake Bennett each contributed a goal and an assist for Wheeling while goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 32 saves on 33 shots, boosting his postseason mark to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 at Reading is scheduled for Wednesday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins will face the rival Hershey Bears in a best-of-five Atlantic Division semifinal round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-176391","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\/176391","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=176391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}