{"id":489891,"date":"2026-02-25T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:01:08","slug":"wilkes-weekly-koivunen-shining-in-a-perfect-week-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489891\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes Weekly: Koivunen shining in a perfect week for the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Wednesday, Feb. 18 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028537&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 7 at Springfield 2<\/a><br \/>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton scored a season-high seven goals in its decimation of Springfield, the team\u2019s first win out of the All-Star break. Avery Hayes scored another hat trick, bringing him to 19 goals on the year. Ville Koivunen and Tanner Howe both had two-goal nights in front 30 saves by Sergei Murashov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Saturday, Feb. 21 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028566&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 4 vs. Bridgeport 3<\/a><br \/>The Penguins scored four-straight goals to outlast the Islanders on Military Appreciation Night presented by MetLife. After Bridgeport seized a 2-0 lead, Filip H\u00e5llander and Atley Calvet lit the lamp before the first intermission. Sebastian Aho gave Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton the lead in the middle frame, and video review granted Koivunen the game-winner in the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Sunday, Feb. 22 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028567&amp;lang_id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PENGUINS 4 at Bridgeport 0<\/a><br \/>Murashov posted 25 saves for his third shutout of the season, while Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton secured is third-straight win. Howe started the scoring early in the second period, followed by Connecticut native Phil Kemp. Third-period power-play goals by Gabe Klassen and Aidan McDonough put things to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Feb. 18 \u2013 PENGUINS 7 at Springfield 2Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton scored a season-high seven goals in its decimation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99,124707],"class_list":["post-489891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-wbs-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489891","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=489891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}