After one period Saturday night, the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins found themselves in an unusual position thus far in the early season.<\/p>\n
They were down three goals.<\/p>\n
However, the ending was the same as it has been in the previous three games.<\/p>\n
The Penguins scored five goals in the third period and they won their fourth straight to open the campaign, 6-3, over the Bridgeport Islanders at Total Mortgage Arena in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (4-0-0-) and Providence are the lone two undefeated team left in the AHL Atlantic Division. The Pens have eight points, two ahead of both Providence and Charlotte.<\/p>\n
Down, 3-0, entering the second period, Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton racked up six unanswered goals.<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves\u2019 first score of the season in the second period trimmed the deficit to two entering the third.<\/p>\n
In the first 10 minutes of the third, Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Sam Poulin, Ville Koivunen and Danton Heinen all scored to give the Pens a 5-3 lead. Atley Calvert\u2019s shorthanded goal with eight minutes left concluded the scoring.<\/p>\n
Calvert had a big weekend for the Penguins, scoring three times in the two road games.<\/p>\n
For the second straight night, Sergei Murashov picked up the win in net, stopping 29 of 32 shots.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday at 7:05 p.m., the Penguins return to Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza to face off with intrastate rival Lehigh Valley. The team then hits the road again next weekend for back-to-back games at Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After one period Saturday night, the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins found themselves in an unusual position thus far in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1902,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-7667","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\/7667","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=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}