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Wednesday, Jan. 14 \u2013 PENGUINS 4 at Providence 1<\/a>
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton usurped first place from Providence with a clinical performance and an AHL career-high 36 saves from Sergei Murashov. Tristan Broz scored twice, and other tallies came courtesy of Joona Koppanen and Rafa\u00ebl Harvey-Pinard.<\/p>\n

Friday, Jan. 16 \u2013 PENGUINS 3 vs. Hartford 4<\/a>
Time ran out on a fiery comeback attempt, as the Penguins fell in their first of back-to-back games against the Wolf Pack. Gabe Klassen scored twice, but a three-goal second period by Hartford spelled doom for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 17 \u2013 PENGUINS 4 vs. Hartford 1<\/a>
The Penguins bounced back in a big way, scoring thrice in the first period and never looking back. Harvey-Pinard notched three points (1G-2A) in that explosive opening frame. As insurance, Finn Harding scored his first AHL goal in the second period.<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 19 \u2013 PENGUINS 3 at Springfield 2<\/a>
Rutger McGroarty returned from the NHL and Avery Hayes returned from injury as offense from Valtteri Puustinen, Chase Pietila and Klassen led the Pens to their second-straight victory.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Jan. 21 \u2013 PENGUINS 2 vs. Belleville 3<\/a> (OT)
A goalie duel between two old friends took place, as Joel Blomqvist and Leevi Meril\u00e4inen went save-for-save in a starry display. However, Meril\u00e4inen\u2019s 25 saves in the first two periods kept his team in it, leading to an OT win for the B-Sens. Rafa\u00ebl Harvey-Pinard and Atley Calvert both scored for WBS.<\/p>\n

Friday, Jan. 23 \u2013 PENGUINS 4 at Hershey 3<\/a> (SO)
A back-and-forth thriller at Giant Center ended with the Penguins surviving in a shootout. Owen Pickering and Ville Koivunen lit the lamp in the first period, and Avery Hayes forced OT with his late, tying goal. Rutger McGroarty posted an assist on all three goals. Koivunen scored again in the shootout, while Sergei Murashov thwarted all three of Hershey\u2019s attempts.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 24 \u2013 PENGUINS 2 vs. Charlotte 5<\/a>
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton wrapped its eight-game season series with Charlotte with a loss. Gabe Klassen and Aidan McDonough found twine for the Penguins, but Blomqvist\u2019s season-high 35 saves weren\u2019t enough. Charlotte won each of its for visits to Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Jan. 14 \u2013 PENGUINS 4 at Providence 1Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton usurped first place from Providence with a clinical performance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99,124707],"class_list":{"0":"post-436637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wbs-weekly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}