Eight different Penguins scored a goal and Kris Beech dished out three assists as Wilkes-Barre/Scranton rolled to an 8-2 win over visiting Hershey on Friday night.
The win moved the Pens into third place in the East Division, two points out of first.
Ross Lupaschuk and Maxime Talbot scored within the first 1:57 of the game to give Wilkes-Barre a quick 2-0 lead. Matt Murley and Erik Christensen made it 4-0 by the end of the first period.
Alain Nasreddine and Michel Ouellet upped the score to 6-1 in the second, and Ramzi Abid and Colby Armstrong closed the scoring in the third period.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves for the Penguins. Peter Budaj allowed three goals on nine shots; Tom Lawson gave up five on 27 shots for the Bears.
Elsewhere on Friday:
Michael Leighton stopped 36 shots as Norfolk moved into first place in the East Division with a 3-0 win over Binghamton… Joey MacDonald made 36 saves as Grand Rapids beat Philadelphia, 4-1… Kirk Daubenspeck earned his second straight shutout, making 37 saves as Portland beat Lowell, 3-0… Andy Hilbert recorded three assists to become the franchise’s all-time scoring leader in Providence’s 3-0 win over Hartford… Mike Morrison made 19 saves and Toby Petersen scored with 7:17 left in regulation as Edmonton beat Utah, 1-0… David Ling‘s overtime goal gave St. John’s a 3-2 win over Hamilton… Bridgeport snapped a 15-game road winless streak with a 5-1 win at Worcester… Kurtis Foster scored twice to help Cincinnati past Syracuse, 3-2… Derek Roy had a goal and an assist to lead Rochester to a 4-1 win over Albany… Mike Cammalleri recorded a goal and an assist in Manchester’s 3-0 win over Springfield… Ryane Clowe tallied a goal and an assist as Cleveland edged Chicago, 3-2… Manitoba’s Lee Goren scored with two seconds left in regulation to tie the score, but San Antonio knocked off the Moose in a shootout, 3-2… Andrew Hutchinson scored one goal and assisted on another to help Milwaukee past Houston, 5-3.
