{"id":190918,"date":"2026-05-13T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190918\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:43:08","slug":"penguins-shut-out-thunderbids-as-bill-zonnon-scores-in-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190918\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins shut out Thunderbids as Bill Zonnon scores in debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making his American Hockey League debut, forward Bill Zonnon scored the winning goal for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1029030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 2-0 victory against the Springfield Thunderbirds<\/a> in Game 1 of the Atlantic Division final series at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round draft pick (No. 22 overall) of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2025, Zonnon opened the contest as center of the fourth line.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Tanner Howe also scored a goal for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 24 saves to record his first career postseason shutout and improved his postseason mark to 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Penguins forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard was scratched due to an undisclosed injury. <\/p>\n<p>Game 2 of the best-of-five series is scheduled for Thursday, 7:05 p.m. at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Brayden Edwards scored the Wheeling Nailers\u2019 only goal during <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/05\/12\/maine-mariners-vs-wheeling-nailers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 2-1 loss in two overtimes to the Maine Mariners<\/a> in Game 4 of the North Division Final at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>The best-of-seven series is tied, 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 33 saves on 35 shots in the loss as his postseason record slipped to 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Jacob Hudson scored the winning goal at 8:06 of the second overtime period.<\/p>\n<p>Nailers defenseman Emil Pieniniemi returned to the lineup after missing the first three games of the series due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is scheduled for Wednesday, 7 p.m. at Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making his American Hockey League debut, forward Bill Zonnon scored the winning goal for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-190918","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\/190918","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=190918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}