Goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 21 saves on 24 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-1 road loss to the rival Hershey Bears at the Giant Center in Hershey on Sunday.
The result dropped Blomqvist’s record to 25-11-6 as Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (38-23-8-1) had a seven-game winning streak snapped.
Forward Vinnie Hinostroza scored the lone goal for the Penguins.
Highlights:
The Penguins’ next game is a road contest against the Hartford Wolf Pack on Friday, 7 p.m.
The Wheeling Nailers will face the Indy Fuel in a Central Division semifinal series of the ECHL’s Kelly Cup playoffs. On Sunday, the schedule for that series was released.
Game 1 – April 19 at Indy, 7 p.m.
Game 2 – April 20 at Indy, 7 p.m.
Game 3 – April 22 at Wheeling, 7:10 p.m.
Game 4 – April 23 at Wheeling, 7:10 p.m.
*-Game 5 – April 27 at Wheeling (at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry), 7:10 p.m.
*-Game 6 – April 29 at Indy, 7 p.m.
*-Game 7 – April 30 at Indy, 7, p.m.
*-If necessary.
Additionally, the Nailers’ regular season home game against the Toledo Walleye originally scheduled for Friday has been formally canceled. Due to flooding in Wheeling, W.Va., the contest was initially postponed indefinitely.
