Penguins vs. Falcons Game Notes ‘The Wikes-Barre/Scranton Penguins open thelr February schedule witha Tuesday night match-up versus the Springfield Falcons at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. The Penguins (24-18-1-3 fl to the Lehigh Valey Phantoms, 6-2, on Saturday night, snapping a four-game winning streak. Tho Falcons (26-15-40) saw their season-igh winless streak reach six games as they cropped a 3-1 decision to the Wolf Pack in Hartford on Saturday. Wiki BarrolScranton is currently in second place in tho East Dvslon, train the Hershey Bears by four pols. Springfield has fallen to third place inthe Norte Division, Penguins Falcons Saturday, January 31 Saturday, January 31 WBS 2 vs. Lehigh Valley 6 Springfield 1 at Hartion! 3 Goals: Wilson, Kunnfack! Goals: Dano GGoalle: Murray (9 saves/12 shots; 25:10)Zatkof (58; 34:50) Goalie: Munroe (30 savesi32 shots) P: 1/5; PK: 6/8; Shots: WBS 29 Lehigh Valy 20 PP: 0/4; PK: 2/4; Shots: Springfield 23 — Hariord 33 The Ligh VoleyPrarics scored sisal goals to down the Penguins, 62, on Study t Mohegan Sun Arona, Tang 2.0 miway tough tho fst Der, Aen Gordon need tet fhe Phantom goss with 80 fet te perd. Jt 3:17 ft, Adam Corte Kot te score, 22 Ns st. ‘goal of the season. Lehigh Valley then took its first lead at 5:10 of the second period on Jesper Pettersson’s first professional tally. W-8/Scranton goaltender Nat barey wodd ent te game arte goal havg mae ie saves on 1 shots, The contest woud rain $2 unl Taylor ee scored st 20 sands ito hea! perod on te Pharos frat sc since tre grander change. Nk Coss are Jason Aenon cose out fe scr or Lehigh Vale, trakig ite ifort goal sores forthe Phriome on he ight. Scat Wison and Tom Kalvos gave WikeeSareScaron a we-gol eed by to {0.23 mat he est pra Andrew Sabet and Bryon Rus each cred wo assist be Penguin, ‘Danny Kristo scored the te-beaking goal with 4:49 left in the second period to lead Hartord over Springfield, 3-1, Saturday night atXL Center, Marek Hrivik ‘opened the scoring for Hartford onthe powerplay just 3:15 into the game. Springfleld's Marko Dano would te the match forthe road team 7:38 ito the ‘second peri. With the Wolf Pack holding the 2-1 edge late in regulation, Joey Crabb iced the game on an empty-net goal with 32 Seconds left o play and sent the Falcons to their sh straight loss (6-1-0). Hrvik fished the game with a goal and an assist for the Wolf Pack. Scott Munroe stopped 30-0f.32 shots In net fr the Faloons. “The Penguins and Falcons face of night forthe third math of hr ou-gamesesson sais. W-BSranton has skated aay wit 5-0 victories inthe fi {wo games ofthe sre, coming at Mogan Sun Arena on Oct. 24 and in pring last Fay. yan Rut has recorded ve pons (26-2) inthe ta ames versus th Falco, Matt Muay hasbeen in eto both vcore, stopping al 49 shots he has faced, The team that ha sore frat has won he fast games ofthe sre, dating back othe 2012-13 season. Wikes-arefScanon hasan ale rcoré of 1984-2. (WL-T-OTL-SOL) against Spingtd + The ine of Bryan Rust, Scott Wson and Andrew Ebbetthas combined for 12 pons (5G-7A) and a plusiminus rating of +8 over the last three game Penguins forward Scott Wison leads AHL. rookies in plus-minus witha +18, + Andrew Ebbet has recorded points in seven siraight ames dating back to Nov. 19 (3G-7A) and in 16 of 20 games overall ths season. + Opponents have scored 28 goals in the third period versus Wikes-Barre(Scranton, the seconc-owest total alowed this season inthe AHL. “Eigtoen of he Flr 25 road games dng th 214-18 season hae een decd by one goal They er 11-43-0in tose contests “Astin Madi one of four defensemen nthe league fo lead steam in ports is season. Hes ed fr second among AHL Busnrs wth 12 nals and 2 polis (120-208) *Spinelé ows have te engest wri steak (1) andthe longest road wining steak (nthe league his season, TrulTynanie ed forte among AHL rookies wh 21 ssi ISIE Wikes-Barre’Saton care01s Harison Reopp © ADD._—_—Reassignd by Pitsburg (NL fom Wheeting ECHL) owst015 Dani Pouict DEL _ Rca om loan by Pitsburg (NHL) ovo1m015 Andrew Et © ADD._—_Retumed on an fem Pitsburgh (NHL) oweom01s Alex Boak © ADD.__Recaled fom oan to Wnesing (ECHL) owzrmo1s Bryan Rust RW ADD. —_Rtumed on lon fom Ptsburgh (NHL) owzrao1 ‘Scot Wison LW ADD —_-Retumedon an fem Pitsburgh (HL) sexe e 20172015 Nathan Oystick D ——DEL_—_—Released fom PTO 013072015 Josh Anderson RW ADD —_Retumed on loan from Columbus (NHL) o1ze2015 Scott Munroe ADD. Recalled from loan to Kalamazoo (ECHL)