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LJ Cunningham of Conyngham says, “I think we’re going to, we’re going to be alright. I think we got this far; it’s been ten years since this happened. I think we got momentum and I think we’re going to ride that momentum all the way to the Calder Cup.”<\/p>\n
For some longtime fans, the team’s current lineup is unlike many they’ve seen.<\/p>\n
“They’re special guys, it’s a special team. One we haven’t had in a long time,” says Patricia Gozikowski of Center Moreland.<\/p>\n
For the fans who weren’t around to see the Pens go this far last time.<\/p>\n
“I was a little young but I don’t remember exactly.”><\/p>\n
“I wasn’t even a fan at that time.”><\/p>\n
Seeing the team compete at this level for the first time is something special in its own right.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited, I feel like I could run through a brick wall at the moment. It feels great because I’ve been a fan for longer than most of my family, so to be here after ten years feels really great,” says Jamison Patton of Berwick.<\/p>\n
“This is huge, I mean, this is the most I’ve seen any Penguins team succeed, as long as I’ve been a fan, so I’m extremely pumped and excited,” says Davin Ridall of Nescope.<\/p>\n
And although there were some nerves going into the game against the Springfield Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n
Gozikowski says, “It’s going to be a tough game because Thunderbirds have picked up their pace a lot.”><\/p>\n
But the penguins came out on top, winning the game 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team plays the Thunderbirds again Thursday night at Mohegan Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been a decade since the Baby Pens advanced this far in the Calder Cup tournament. Newswatch 16’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-190811","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\/190811","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=190811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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