The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins wrapped up another winning week Saturday night on the road.<\/p>\n
After spotting Hershey a one-goal lead, the Penguins scored four unanswered goals to pick up a 4-1 win over the Bears at the Giant Center. The Pens lead the season series with their in-state rival, 2-1, avenging a four-goal setback last weekend in Hershey.<\/p>\n
The win keeps Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (17-5-1) in first place by one point over Providence, while Hershey (11-8-1) drops out of the fourth spot in the Atlantic Division, now trailing Charlotte by one point.<\/p>\n
Brett Leason scored his second goal of the year for Hershey in the first period.<\/p>\n
Valtteri Puustinen knotted it at 1 with a second-period goal before the Penguins exploded in the third.<\/p>\n
Puustinen\u2019s second goal 58 seconds into the period was the game-winner off assists from Phil Tomasino and Danton Heinen, Gabe Klassen gave his team a two-goal lead at 2:11 and Aidan McDonough\u2019s power-play goal at 11:57 made it a three-goal edge.<\/p>\n
Joel Blomqvist got the start in goal, and stopped 27 of 28 shots.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton has three games next week, starting Wednesday in Hartford. The team then returns to the Mohegan Arena for the weekend, hosting Providence on Saturday at 6:05 p.m. and Charlotte on Sunday at 3:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins wrapped up another winning week Saturday night on the road. After spotting Hershey a one-goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1902,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-54715","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\/54715","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=54715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}