{"id":19792,"date":"2025-10-30T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:23:10","slug":"eight-doesnt-turn-out-great-for-penguins-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19792\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight doesn\u2019t turn out great for Penguins \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILKES-BARRE TWP. \u2014 Eight didn\u2019t turn out great for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Providence scored three times in the second period as the Bruins handed the Penguins their first loss of the season with a 3-1 setback Wednesday night at Mohegan Arena. It was a battle between two of the lone undefeated teams in the American Hockey League, as Providence will sit in the top spot in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Bruins\u2019 13th-straight win at Mohegan Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Valtteri Puustinen scored the lone Pens goal with the team down, 2-0, in the second period, scoring off an assist from Chase Pietila.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Harrison, Riley Tufte and Georgi Merkulov accounted for the three Bruins goals.<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Murashov stopped 13 shots for the Pens, while Michael DePietro had 25 saves for Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (7-1) will be home Friday for a Halloween showdown with the Bridgeport Islanders with a 7:05 p.m. start. The team hits the road Saturday to Utica, closing out the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILKES-BARRE TWP. \u2014 Eight didn\u2019t turn out great for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. Providence scored three times in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1902,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-19792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-penguins","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792","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=19792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}