{"id":201564,"date":"2026-05-24T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:20:06","slug":"minor-league-report-penguins-to-face-marlies-in-eastern-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201564\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor league report: Penguins to face Marlies in Eastern Conference final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins will face the Toronto Marlies in the Eastern Conference final of the American Hockey League\u2019s Calder Cup playoffs beginning Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That matchup was secured Sunday when the Marlies claimed a 3-2 road victory against the Cleveland Monsters in Game 5 of the North Division final, winning the best-of-five series, 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins won the Atlantic Division final series against the Springfield Thunderbirds, 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>As for the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final series, the schedule is:<\/p>\n<p>May 27 \u2013 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>May 29 \u2013 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>June 1 \u2013 at Toronto, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>June 3 \u2013 at Toronto, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>June 5 \u2013 at Toronto, 7 p.m.-*<\/p>\n<p>June 7 \u2013 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 6:05 p.m. -*<\/p>\n<p>June 9 \u2013 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, 7:05 p.m. -*<\/p>\n<p>*-if necessary<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, the teams met twice. The Marlies claimed a 4-3 overtime road win Nov. 5, while the Penguins took a 4-3 road win March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins will face the Toronto Marlies in the Eastern Conference final of the American Hockey League\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-201564","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\/201564","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=201564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}