{"id":212214,"date":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","slug":"marlies-one-win-away-from-finals-after-game-5-victory-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212214\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlies one win away from Finals after Game 5 victory | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Marlies are one victory away from the Eastern Conference championship after taking a 3-2 series lead with an emphatic 5-1 win over Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton at Coca-Cola Coliseum on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Marlies will have two chances to close out the series on the road, beginning with Game 6 on Sunday in Wilkes-Barre (6:05 ET, \"\"<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Bo Groulx<\/a> scored the go-ahead goal on a power play with 5:39 remaining in the second period, and Easton Cowan<\/a> and Logan Shaw<\/a> scored early in the third to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n

The Penguins got on the board first when Mikhail Ilyin<\/a> scored a power-play goal 6:22 into the second period, but Landon Sim<\/a> notched his first goal of the playoffs 49 seconds later to tie the game at 1-1.<\/p>\n

It was the first win of the series by a home team, and the fourth time in the five games that the team scoring first lost.<\/p>\n

Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> (10-6) stopped 32 of 33 shots to secure the win in the Toronto cage.<\/p>\n

Sergei Murashov<\/a> (8-6) made 28 saves for the Penguins.<\/p>\n

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(Toronto leads series, 3-2)
Game 1 \u2013 Wed., May 27 \u2013 Toronto 4, W-B\/SCRANTON 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Fri., May 29 \u2013 Toronto 2, W-B\/SCRANTON 1 (OT)<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Mon., June 1 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton 5, TORONTO 3<\/a>
Game 4 \u2013 Wed., June 3 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton 4, TORONTO 3<\/a>
Game 5 \u2013 Fri., June 5 \u2013 TORONTO 5, W-B\/Scranton 1<\/a>
Game 6 \u2013 Sun., June 7 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 6:05
*Game 7 \u2013 Tue., June 9 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 7:05
*if necessary\u2026 All times Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Marlies are one victory away from the Eastern Conference championship after taking a 3-2 series lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-212214","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\/212214","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=212214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}