ALLENTOWN – The Phantoms are off to a strong start through their first 16 games – Lehigh Valley knocked off one of the top teams out of the AHL’s North Division, Rochester, last night 4-2.<\/p>\n
The Phantoms sitting in third place in the always-competitive Atlantic Division, and enter this weekend amongst the best in the Eastern Conference – scoring 53 goals so far. They’ve got an edge to them as they head to second place Providence on Friday.<\/p>\n
“Going into a weekend with two tough opponents to play against, it’s always good to get the two points early,” said forward Denver Barkey. “We got our work cut out for us. I think we’re just trying to prove ourselves right now. We want to prove ourselves to Providence, Hartford and all these top teams that we’re right there with them.”<\/p>\n
A 7:05 puck drop against the Bruins in the first of three straight road contests for the Phantoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN – The Phantoms are off to a strong start through their first 16 games – Lehigh Valley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,24320,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-40214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-denver-barkey","12":"tag-lehigh-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214","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=40214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}