WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins lost to the Hershey Bears, 6-1, at Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza on Wednesday night.
In the second meeting of the season between two bitter rivals, Hershey enacted revenge on Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-5-1-0), who took the first meeting of the year four days ago at Giant Center.
Ethan Bear opened the scoring for Hershey with a wrister from the slot at 14:48 of the first period.
Pierrick Dubé and Bogdan Trineyev each scored with under a minute to go in the opening frame to suddenly extend Hershey’s lead to 3-0.
After a few big saves by Joel Blomqvist kept the score within reach for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Spencer Smallman found Henrik Rybinski for a point-blank shot at the net-front and increased the Bears’ lead to 4-0 at 14:31 of the second period.
Alex Limoges put the Bears up by five with a redirect at 16:11 of the second, but the Penguins scored their only goal of the night mere moments later. Sixteen seconds after Limoges’s tally, Emil Bemström set up Boris Katchouk for the latter’s seventh goal of the season.
As the clock ticked down before the second intermission, Ethen Frank tallied his league-leading 16th goal of the season, thus concluding the scoring.
Filip Larsson relieved Blomqvist at the start of the third period, stopping all eight shots he faced. Blomqvist recorded 20 saves on 26 shots. Hunter Shepard made 29 saves in Hershey’s return to the win column.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s next game is on Saturday, Dec. 7, when the team travels to play the Hartford Wolf Pack. Puck drop is set for 6:00 p.m. at XL Center.
The Penguins return to Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza for their next home game on Wednesday, Dec. 11 for a matchup with the Charlotte Checkers. Game time for the Penguins and Checkers will be 7:05 p.m. at Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza.
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