Eliminate Sound Tigers with 4-2 win
With 51.4 seconds remaining in the third period of Friday night's game, Jeff Taffe saw a loose puck come gliding toward him at the right face-off circle.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defeated the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 2-1 on Wednesday to take a three games to one lead in the East Division Semifinals.
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Bentivoglio nets game-winner for Bridgeport in extra session
For the second time in as many nights, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Bridgeport Sound Tigers needed overtime to decide a winner, but that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
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Chris Minard scored the overtime winner to give the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Saturday night.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defeated the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 3-2 on Friday night, taking a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-seven playoff series.
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Rally in third to defeat division-leading Hershey 5-4
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins concluded their regular season on Sunday afternoon against Hershey Bears at Giant Center with a noticeably different line-up than they've used in previous games. With absolutely nothing at stake standings wise, Penguins' head coach Todd Reirden scratched several big-name players.
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WBS will open playoffs against Bridgeport on Friday
After racing out to an early 2-0 lead against the Norfolk Admirals, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins appeared to be on the fast track to clinching home ice advantage in the first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
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Bissonnette, Daoust, Vitale shine in 4-2 win
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins took to the ice on Friday night without their leading goal scorer and a talented offensive defenseman, but interim head coach Todd Reirden had faith that his team would do just fine without them.
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Comeback in third thwarted by Smolenak's tally
At the top of the American Hockey League's East Division sits the Hershey Bears, a powerhouse that has given goaltenders nightmares all season long.
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Letestu's goal forces overtime, but Hershey prevails in shootout
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have had a goal for every game since Todd Reirden took over coaching duties from Dan Bylsma – register 40 shots on goal.
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Signed by the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to skate in the team's first annual Alumni Game, it didn't take long for Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson, and Dave Hanson to make an impact.
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Satan, Pesonen, Letestu score in bonus round to take 3-2 win
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins' goaltender John Curry doesn't see a point to keeping his secret to shootout success under lock and key.
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Goaltender makes 31 saves, sets new team record with 31st win of season
The two most potent offenses in the American Hockey League met in a clash of the titans on Sunday afternoon – and managed to score only one goal.
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With his team clinging to a 3-2 lead at the second intermission of last Wednesday's game, Connor James pondered if there was anything he should be doing in the locker room to turn things around.
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As the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins continue their push to the playoffs, the team's roster is expected to continue expanding.
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Winger records his first four-point game in AHL
Chris Minard rewrote the history books again, but the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins can't punch their ticket to the playoffs just yet.
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Chris Minard set a Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins record when he scored his 32nd goal of the season on Wednesday night, but his stay in the record book might be short lived.
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The Wilkes-Bare/Scranton Penguins will play six of their final nine regular season games at home, but if they want to play the majority of their playoff games at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza, they need to win.
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A lot can happen over the course of an American Hockey League season, but last week, something took place that even Nostradamus himself couldn't have predicted.
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Winger scores twice in regulation, adds decisive shootout tally
When it came time for interim head coach Todd Reirden to select which of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to use in the shootout, he didn't have a difficult choice to make.
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Although the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have enjoyed success against the Hershey Bears this season, for one reason or another, they haven't been able to jump ahead of Hershey in the East Division standings.
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Although he's only been a member of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for less than two weeks, Andy Wozniewski has already exceeded the expectations of interim head coach Todd Reirden.
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With the American Hockey League's Clear Day roster deadline quickly approaching, many questions surround the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins' playoff roster.
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At the start of the season, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender John Curry switched his uniform number from 1, which he wore throughout his rookie campaign with the club, to 36. Now, he's number 1 again, but in a different sense.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins threw everything but the kitchen sink at Binghamton goaltender Jeff Glass on Saturday night. Had they thrown the sink, Glass probably would have stopped it as well.
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins interim head coach Todd Reirden was happy with the situation that the Penguins found themselves in entering the third period of Saturday night's game against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. He wasn't happy with the end result.
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When defenseman Deryk Engelland took a shot on goal late in the third period of Friday night's game, he wasn't looking to score. He was actually making a pass to teammate Paul Bissonnette, via the pads of Albany River Rats goaltender Justin Peters.
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Despite being separated by a roughly four-hour drive, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Hartford Wolf Pack did not play each other during the 2007-2008 season. After Wednesday night's game, the Penguins probably wish that were also the case this year.
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As Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins interim head coach Todd Reirden gathered his players around the dry erase board at practice on Tuesday, Chris Cichocki stood in the back, watching and listening intently. Cichocki, hired by the Penguins as an interim assistant coach on Monday, had his first opportunity to meet the players he and Reirden will be working with over the coming days.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have been playing some great hockey since mid-January. The team has won 12 of their last 14 games, including a franchise record-tying nine-game win streak that was snapped on Sunday in a 4-1 loss to the Hamilton Bulldogs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's only other loss during the stretch came on January 24, when the club dropped a 4-1 decision to the Hartford Wolf Pack.
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Chris Cichocki (chih-HOCK-ee) has been named interim assistant coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, it was announced on Monday.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins' blueline took a major hit before the start of the season when defensemen Ryan Whitney and Sergei Gonchar were lost to long-term injuries. But in the world of professional sports, injuries often create opportunities for other players to step up and showcase their abilities. Such was the case for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Alex Goligoski.
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Todd Reirden has been named interim head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, it was announced on Wednesday morning. Reirden takes over head coaching duties from Dan Bylsma, who was named interim head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday, February 15.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have relieved head coach Michel Therrien of his duties and named Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma as his temporary replacement.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins might not have been playing a divisional opponent in Sunday afternoons contest, but that didn't mean that the game didn't have significant divisional implications.
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When the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins practice on the day before a game, the team usually concludes with a game of Juice Boy.
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The Hamilton Bulldogs may have entered Saturday night's game riding a season high four-game win streak, but the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins had something up their sleeve to ensure that the Bulldogs wouldn't pick up their fifth consecutive victory.
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Fans who watched Wednesday night's game between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Lake Erie Monsters closely enough could actually see the monkey climbing off of Adam Henrich's back.
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Entering Sunday's game, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins ranked 2nd in the American Hockey League's East Division with 65 points. While their 31-16-1-2 record is impressive in itself, there is an additional way to measure an AHL team's success. Can a team's prospects step up to the plate and make the jump to the National Hockey League? For the Penguins, the answer is yes. A total of 14 players have skated for both Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and the Pittsburgh Penguins this season.
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It was just another day at the office for John Curry. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender turned aside all 32 shots he faced to earn his third shutout of the season, and the Penguins cruised to a 5-0 victory over the Norfolk Admirals on Sunday afternoon at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza. The matinee victory marked the fifth straight win for the Penguins, who improved to 32-16-1-2 on the season. The Admirals fell to 19-24-2-5 on the season and remain in last place in the American Hockey League's East Division.
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Reid Cashman is in the middle of his best week in the American Hockey League. After going without a goal in his 26 career AHL games, dating back to the 2006-2007 season when he played for the Toronto Marlies, Cashman now has two goals in his last two games – both of them game winners. Jean-Michel Daoust found a wide open Cashman on the far side of the net, and the defenseman deposited the puck past a sprawling Josh Tordjman and into the cage to give the Penguins a 4-3 overtime victory over the San Antonio Rampage on Friday night at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza.
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After Connor James scored the game-winning goal in the fifth round of the shootout on Friday night, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender John Curry nearly jumped out of his skates. He had every reason to. Curry posted a season-high 46 saves and stopped all four Hershey Bears shooters he faced in the shootout to earn his twelfth victory in his last fifteen starts, stealing a 4-3 shootout victory for the Penguins at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza.
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In the 2003 National Hockey League entry draft, there wasn't a single team interested in selecting Ben Lovejoy, a young defenseman who had just wrapped up his freshman season at Boston College. Six years later, it's hard to believe that there wouldn't be a club interested in having him in their organization. Lovejoy, who leads all Penguins defensemen with 7 goals and 24 points in 44 games this season, is midway through his second year of professional hockey and was one of three Penguins selected to play in the 2009 American Hockey League All-Star Game.
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Artem Anisimov and Mike Ouellette scored third period power play goals to lead the Hartford Wolf Pack to a 4-1 victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Saturday night at the XL Center in Connecticut. With the loss on the final night of competition before the American Hockey League All-Star break, the Penguins fell to 27-16-1-2 on the season and saw their win streak snapped at three games.
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Friday night's game between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Hershey Bears was one for the record books. It's also a candidate for inclusion in a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Jean-Michel Daoust scored the game-winning goal in a shootout, giving the Penguins a 4-3 victory at GIANT Center in Chocolatetown.
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After driving from Pittsburgh to Wilkes-Barre Township, Bill Thomas arrived at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza roughly three hours before the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins were set to take on the Manchester Monarchs. The Penguins were glad to have him back. Thomas recorded his first two-goal game of the season in Wednesday night's contest, propelling the Penguins to a 4-1 victory over the Manchester Monarchs.
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Being a head coach in the American Hockey League requires making difficult decisions. On Saturday night, Dan Bylsma made a choice that may have cost the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins two points in the East Division standings. Less than 24 hours after dropping a divisional game to the Binghamton Senators, the Penguins traveled to New York’s capital city to battle the Albany River Rats in another divisional showdown.
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Since dropping an 8-4 decision to the Hershey Bears on opening night, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have come a long way. Playing their 40th game of the 2008-2009 American Hockey League (AHL) season, the Penguins overcame a 2-1 deficit with five unanswered goals to handily defeat the AHL-leading Hershey Bears by a score of 6-2 on Sunday afternoon at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza. With the matinee blowout, the Penguins improved to 3-1 against Hershey, a team that leads the AHL with 28 wins, 57 points, and 159 goals scored.
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Steve Kelly took it upon himself to make sure that the Syracuse Crunch's trek through Saturday's snowstorm was well worth it. The veteran center scored twice in regulation and added two tallies in the shootout to lead the Crunch to a 4-3 shootout victory before an announced crowd of 7,270 at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza on Saturday night. Kelly's second goal came with just 5.3 seconds remaining in regulation and marked the third time that the Crunch overcame a one-goal deficit. The Penguins scored once in each regulation period, but Syracuse kept battling back.
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Buried on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins fourth line for the past few games, winger Jean-Michel Daoust got the opportunity he'd been waiting for on Friday night. When Chris Minard, the American Hockey League's (AHL's) leading goal-scorer with 26 tallies in 31 games this season, was called up to the Pittsburgh Penguins earlier in the day, Daoust was selected by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton head coach Dan Bylsma to move from the fourth line, where Daoust had been playing recently, to take Minard's spot on the first line. Daoust made the most of his chance, scoring the game-winning goal in a 4-2 road victory over the Binghamton Senators on Friday evening in New York.
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During Saturday night's 7-3 triumph over the Albany River Rats, it seemed as if every shot the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins took found its way into the back of the net. On Sunday, the Penguins were not as fortunate, as Philadelphia Phantoms goaltender Scott Munroe made 28 saves to backstop his team to a 4-1 victory in a matinee game at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza. With the win, the Phantoms improved to 15-11-0-0 and bumped the Penguins out of third place in the American Hockey League's East Division. The Penguins fell to 13-10-1-1 and now sit two points behind Philadelphia.
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When Chris Minard and Janne Pesonen were called up to Pittsburgh on Friday, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins offense suffered what appeared to be a devastating blow. Minard scored 17 goals during the first two months of the season, tops on the team and the second-highest total in the American Hockey League (AHL). Pesonen paced the Penguins with 16 assists. But the loss of two of their top guns didn’t hurt the Penguins in the slightest, as they rolled to a 7-3 victory over the Albany River Rats at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza on Saturday night. Jeff Taffe and Jean-Michel Daoust both finished with two goals and two assists.
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Four different players posted two-point games to pace the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 victory over the Worcester Sharks on Wednesday night in Massachusetts. Ryan Stone, Luca Caputi, and Ben Lovejoy each scored a goal and added an assist, while Danny Richmond recorded two assists on the evening. Adam Berkhoel stopped 27 shots, limiting the Sharks to a second-period goal by Steven Zalewski.
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When the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins visit the Worcester Sharks on Wednesday night, they'll get an up-close and personal look at one of the bigger stories to hit the American Hockey League (AHL) in recent memory. The Penguins will square off against 43-year old Claude Lemieux, a veteran of 20 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons. Lemieux hasn't played in the NHL since 2003, and hasn't played any high-level hockey since 2004, when he competed in Switzerland.
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When defenseman Jean-Philippe Cote signed with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at the start of the season, he knew he would have to make some adjustments. Cote was coming off his fifth season with the Hamilton Bulldogs, the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens. He had spent his entire pro career with the Montreal organization, appearing in eight National Hockey League games during the 2005-2006 season and winning a Calder Cup in 2007.
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After a come-from-behind victory on Friday night against the Grand Rapids Griffins, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins dropped decisions to the Toronto Marlies and Lake Erie Monsters to conclude their weekend road trip with a 1-2 record. With the pair of losses, the Penguins fell to 10-8-0-1 on the season. Their 21 points place them in a tie with the Binghamton Senators for third-place in the American Hockey League's East Division.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins overcame two separate one-goal deficits to earn a 3-2 shootout victory over the Grand Rapids Griffins on Friday night in Michigan. Janne Pesonen and Mark Letestu scored shootout goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, and goaltender Adam Berkhoel denied all four Griffins he faced to earn his fourth consecutive victory.
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender Adam Berkhoel has had shutout streaks in the past, but none quite as impressive as the one he’s on now. One is a streak, right? "I've usually blown it early in the second game and started over," Berkhoel said. "I've never had it like this. This is crazy."
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins saw Friday night in Binghamton that hockey games can be decided by a single shift. In a hard fought battle against the Syracuse Crunch on Sunday evening, they found out that games are sometimes decided by a lucky bounce. With 36 seconds to play in the third period, Crunch defenseman Aaron Rome took a slap shot that redirected and found its way to Derek MacKenzie. The forward buried the loose puck from close range to give Syracuse a 4-3 victory at the Wachovia Arena at Casey plaza.
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It might be the most grueling bus ride of their young lives, but many of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are looking forward to their upcoming road trip. The Penguins play Friday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Saturday afternoon in Toronto, Ontario, and Sunday afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio. When they finally return to Wilkes-Barre, the team will have spent 27 hours on the bus and traveled over 1,500 miles.
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Less than 24 hours after losing to the Binghamton Senators, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins found a way to beat them – by staying out of the penalty box. The Penguins gave the number one power play in the American Hockey League only two opportunities and Adam Berkhoel posted his third shutout in four games to lead the Penguins to a 3-0 victory at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza on Saturday night.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins came within one shift of completely shutting down the American Hockey League's top power play unit on Friday night. Yet, they have nothing to show for it. Denis Hamel and Danny Bois scored 23 seconds apart in the third period to propel the Binghamton Senators to a 4-2 victory over the Penguins in New York. Hamel's goal broke a 2-2 tie at 8:36 of the final frame, eight seconds after a penalty by winger Jonathan Filewich.
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Physical. That's the word that was thrown around the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins locker room on Thursday as the team prepared for weekend contests against the Binghamton Senators and Syracuse Crunch.
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Jean-Michel Daoust might not be the biggest guy on the ice, but that doesn't mean he isn't one of the toughest. After sitting out Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's first two games, the 5'7";, 154-pound Daoust made his season debut against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on October 17. Midway through the second period, with the Penguins trailing 3-1, Daoust and defenseman Danny Richmond were involved in a play that neither of them will soon forget.
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While forwards like Jeff Taffe, Chris Minard, and Janne Pesonen are generating offense and putting pucks in the net, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's Aaron Boogaard is playing policeman. The rookie forward is throwing his six-foot-one, 215-pound frame around and dropping the gloves to make sure other teams don't take liberties with the Penguins' skilled players. "It's the toughest job in hockey," Boogaard said. "Someone's gotta do it. Without that, I wouldn't have a job"
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It wasn't the ideal way to win the game, but the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will gladly take it. The Penguins found themselves shorthanded eight times against a very potent Hershey Bears power play and were out-shot by a 32-17 margin. Nonetheless, the Penguins defeated the Bears 4-3 on Saturday night at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza.
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If there was any doubt as to whether the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins were happy to be back at home, it was answered very early in Friday night's game against the visiting Lowell Devils. In their first game at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza since October 17, the Penguins scored four times in the opening 9:46 en route to a 4-0 victory.
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The Bridgeport Sound Tigers scored two first-period power play goals to overcome an early deficit and defeat the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 3-2 on Wednesday morning in Connecticut. With the loss, the Penguins fell to 4-3 on their seven-game road trip and 5-4-0-1 on the season. Bridgeport improved to 8-3-0-1and tied the Hamilton Bullldogs and Hershey Bears for the most points in the American Hockey League (AHL) with 17.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins concluded their season-high seven-game road trip with victories over two Texas foes this past weekend. The Penguins defeated the San Antonio Rampage 3-1 on Friday evening and followed that performance with a 4-3 victory against the Houston Aeros on Sunday afternoon. Second-year goaltender John Curry earned the victories in both games, improving his record to 2-1 on the 2008-2009 campaign.
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Last Spring, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins center Dustin Jeffrey found himself in a situation he had never experienced before. The twenty-year old Jeffrey signed an amateur try-out contract with the Penguins after he concluded a successful junior career where he recorded 252 points (100 goals, 152 assists) in 246 career Ontario Hockey League (OHL) games with Mississauga and Sault Ste. Marie.
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Defenseman will play vs. San Antonio, Bylsma says
When the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins take on the San Antonio Rampage on Friday, they will receive a huge boost to their defensive corps. Huge is the operative word. According to coach Dan Bylsma, Joey Mormina, a 6'6 blueliner who suffered a groin injury just before the start of the season, will make his Penguins debut.
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