{"id":75214,"date":"2026-01-01T00:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75214\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:44:17","slug":"admirals-third-period-comeback-falls-short-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75214\/","title":{"rendered":"Admirals Third Period Comeback Falls Short in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading, PA \u2014 In their final game of 2025, the Norfolk Admirals traveled to Pennsylvania for a New Year\u2019s Eve matchup against the Reading Royals. Despite a hard-fought comeback effort, Norfolk came up short in a 2\u20131 loss, with Carson Musser scoring the Admirals\u2019 lone goal.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spie-17.jpg\" alt=\"RECAP | Admirals Third Period Comeback Falls Short in Reading\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Isaac Poulter made his 12th appearance in net for Norfolk and turned aside 23 of 25 shots in a strong performance.<\/p>\n<p>Reading controlled the early pace, outshooting the Admirals 6\u20130 in the opening five minutes. David Drake was assessed a holding penalty during that stretch, but Norfolk weathered the pressure and settled into the game. The opening period moved quickly as both goaltenders stood tall, and Norfolk carried an 11\u20136 shot advantage as the game remained scoreless after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals struck just 40 seconds into the second period when Nolan Burke snapped a wrist shot past Poulter to open the scoring. That goal stood for much of the frame before Reading capitalized on an Admirals turnover, with Alec Butcher finishing a breakaway to make it 2\u20130. Norfolk earned a late power play but couldn\u2019t convert, and the Royals took their two-goal lead into the second intermission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foco.vegb.net\/c\/3065197\/1608989\/10075\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762661229_106_image001-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly four minutes into the third period, Musser sparked the Admirals\u2019 comeback, redirecting a shot from the blue line to cut the deficit in half for his second goal of the season. Norfolk carried the momentum from there, generating sustained pressure and a strong forecheck as they searched for the equalizer. Despite a late push and sustained pressure on Royals goaltender Yaniv Perets, the Admirals were unable to find the tying goal before the final horn.<\/p>\n<p>Sentara Three Stars of the Game<\/p>\n<p>1. REA \u2013 B. Meehan (2 assists, +2)<\/p>\n<p>2. REA \u2013 Y. Perets (27 of 28 saves made)<\/p>\n<p>3. REA \u2013 A. Butcher (1 goal, +2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading, PA \u2014 In their final game of 2025, the Norfolk Admirals traveled to Pennsylvania for a New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-75214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214","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=75214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}