{"id":679348,"date":"2026-06-02T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679348\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:50:10","slug":"penguins-close-gap-on-marlies-with-game-3-win-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679348\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins close gap on Marlies with Game 3 win | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins got in the Eastern Conference Finals win column on Monday night with a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Marlies in Game 3 at Coca-Cola Coliseum.<\/p>\n

With the Marlies still leading the best-of-seven series two games to one, Game 4 is Wednesday night back in Toronto (7 ET, \"\"<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ville Koivunen<\/a> snapped a 2-2 tie with 12:12 to go in the third period to send the Penguins to their fourth win in five road games this postseason.<\/p>\n

Linemates Aidan McDonough<\/a>, Bill Zonnon<\/a> and Atley Calvert<\/a> all tallied a goal and an assist apiece for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, and Sergei Murashov<\/a> (7-5) finished the night with 36 saves.<\/p>\n

Luke Haymes<\/a> led the Marlies with a goal and an assist, and Vinni Lettieri<\/a> and Marc Johnstone<\/a> also scored.<\/p>\n

Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> (9-5) stopped 29 of 33 shots for Toronto.<\/p>\n

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(Toronto leads series, 2-1)
Game 1 \u2013 Wed., May 27 \u2013 Toronto 4, W-B\/SCRANTON 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Fri., May 29 \u2013 Toronto 2, W-B\/SCRANTON 1 (OT)<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Mon., June 1 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton 5, TORONTO 3<\/a>
Game 4 \u2013 Wed., June 3 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 5 \u2013 Fri., June 5 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 6 \u2013 Sun., June 7 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 6:05
*Game 7 \u2013 Tue., June 9 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 7:05
*if necessary\u2026 All times Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins got in the Eastern Conference Finals win column on Monday night with a 5-3 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-679348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679348","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=679348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}