{"id":204219,"date":"2026-05-28T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204219\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:39:07","slug":"minor-league-report-penguins-drop-game-1-nailers-face-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204219\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor league report: Penguins drop Game 1, Nailers face elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenseman Alex Alexyev had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, who <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1029057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost to the Toronto Marlies, 4-2<\/a>, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Rutger McGroarty also scored a goal for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 12 saves on 15 shots as his postseason mark fell to 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is scheduled for Friday, 7:05 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Brayden Edwards and Tiernan Shoudy each had a goal and an assist for the Wheeling Nailers, who <a href=\"https:\/\/echl.com\/games\/2026\/05\/27\/wheeling-nailers-vs-florida-everblades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost to the Florida Everblades, 5-2<\/a>, in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va.<\/p>\n<p>Florida leads the best-of-seven series, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Taylor Gauthier\u2019s postseason mark fell to 8-7 after he made 28 saves on 33 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 is scheduled for Friday, 7:10 p.m. at Wheeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenseman Alex Alexyev had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, who lost to the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-204219","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\/204219","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=204219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}