Since our February 7 update, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s been on a tear. Riding the red-hot goaltending of Matt Murray (four shutouts in his past eight starts) and timely scoring from Conor Sheary, Jayson Megna, and present Penguin Andrew Ebbett, the Baby Pens are 11-2-2 in their last 15 games.
Overall, coach John Hynes’ crew is 36-20-6, good for second place in the AHL East Division. Stats include games played through March 19.
| SCORING | ||||||||||||||
| Player | Age | Pos | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | +/- | ||||||
| Conor Sheary | 22 | LW | 53 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Andrew Ebbett | 31 | C | 34 | 15 | 23 | 38 | 8 | 18 | ||||||
| Tom Kostopoulos | 35 | RW | 59 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 56 | 4 | ||||||
| Scott Wilson | 22 | C | 44 | 14 | 20 | 34 | 26 | 15 | ||||||
| Jayson Megna | 24 | RW | 49 | 19 | 13 | 32 | 40 | 17 | ||||||
| Brian Dumoulin | 22 | D | 52 | 3 | 24 | 27 | 18 | 20 | ||||||
| Bryan Rust | 22 | F | 37 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Derrick Pouliot | 20 | D | 28 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 3 | ||||||
| Carter Rowney | 24 | F | 51 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 29 | 10 | ||||||
| Jean-Sebastien Dea | 20 | C | 38 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| Nick Drazenovic | 27 | C | 25 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Tom Kuhnhackl | 22 | RW | 58 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Dominik Uher | 21 | RW | 58 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 51 | 6 | ||||||
| Taylor Chorney | 27 | D | 57 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 38 | 22 | ||||||
| Matia Marcantuoni | 20 | C | 45 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| Bobby Farnham | 25 | F | 48 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 198 | 1 | ||||||
| Scott Harrington | 21 | D | 38 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 13 | ||||||
| Josh Archibald | 21 | RW | 34 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 19 | -1 | ||||||
| Adam Payerl | 23 | C | 34 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 67 | 5 | ||||||
| Bobby Goers | 28 | D | 46 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 3 | ||||||
| Nicholas D’Agostino | 24 | D | 38 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| Reid McNeill | 22 | D | 54 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 121 | 6 | ||||||
| Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond | 29 | RW | 43 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 201 | 3 | ||||||
| Beau Bennett | 22 | RW | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Alex Boak | 24 | D | 22 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 49 | 6 | ||||||
| Philip Samuelsson | 23 | D | 22 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20 | -3 | ||||||
| Sahir Gill | 22 | F | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Zack Torquato | 25 | C | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Eric Hartzell | 25 | G | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Clark Seymour | 21 | D | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | ||||||
| Jeff Zatkoff | 27 | G | 31 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Paul Cianfrini | 25 | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | ||||||
| Patrick McGrath | 21 | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -2 | ||||||
| Matt Murray | 20 | G | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| Harrison Ruopp | 21 | D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| Danny Syvret | 29 | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Anton Zlobin | 21 | LW | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | ||||||
| GOALTENDING | ||||||||||||||
| Player | Age | Pos | GP | MIN | GA | SH | AVE | WLOT | ||||||
| Matt Murray | 20 | G | 32 | 1836 | 49 | 9 | 1.60 | 20-8-2 | ||||||
| Jeff Zatkoff | 27 | G | 31 | 1796 | 71 | 3 | 2.37 | 14-12-2 | ||||||
| Eric Hartzell | 25 | G | 2 | 123 | 6 | 0 | 2.92 | 2-0-0 | ||||||
As I sit here watching the WBS Penguins on TV tonight I can’t help but think there is something inherently wrong with the way this team plays. Do they not know that they have to pass the puck at least 10 times before they shoot? I mean they keep shooting at the neat like they are not ashamed to score a dirty goal. Don’t they watch the pro club? Aren’t the only goals that count the pretty ones? You know the ones where you pass and pass and pass until you get the perfect Sports Center moment and then you shoot right? On top of that these guys are working hard mucking it up in the dirty spots and really trying to do everything they can to get and keep the puck. What the hell is wrong with these guys???? If any of them want to get called up they better take notice of what the pro club expects. Maybe they should stop moving their feet and start running into each other on the ice and of course start passing more because all this shooting will get them nothing but goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins are allergic to those.
Do you think they could send everyone from the Pens down to WBS and call up everyone from WBS? The old switcheroo? At least the forwards. They couldn’t be any worse.
I’m not kidding… Well, okay, maybe a little bit.
Amen!