AHL Playoffs: WBS gears up for Game 4 after winning Game 3

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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins showed some life and were able to defeat the Toronto Marlies 5-3 on the road in Game 3 on Monday night. Toronto leads the series 2-1.

Here was the Pens’ lineup for Game 3. Owen Pickering returned to action, taking the place of the newly injured Finn Harding.

Projected lines for tonight

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— x – Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) June 1, 2026

WBS’s fourth line was a difference maker, all of Atley Calvert (1G+1A), Bill Zonnon (1G+1A) and Aidan McDonough (1G+2A) had multi-point efforts in Game 3.

Ville Koivunen scored a big goal in the third period to break a 2-2 tie on a nice give-and-go with Tristan Broz in a 4-on-4 situation. Calvert would score soon after to push the lead to 4-2. The Marlies would score with their goalie pulled to close the gap to 4-3 before Tanner Howe finished off the scoring with an empty net goal in the last minute to seal the deal for the Pens.

Ville Koivunen SCORES!!!!

Beautiful combination between Broz and Ville. Huge goal for his 4th of the series! pic.twitter.com/3sQhihkvfR

— Pens Prospects (@pensprospects_) June 2, 2026

Sergei Murashov made 36 saves on 39 shots on way to being named the first star of the game.

Wilkes has been great on the road this season, recording a franchise-best single season 26-7-2-1 away record (or 26-7-3 in the NHL style to combine OT and SO losses), in addition to improving to now 4-1 on the road in the playoff run. They’ll need to lean on that in these next two games tonight and Friday in Toronto in order to keep working their way towards a comeback.

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