Ty Conklin made 22 saves and the Penguins got goals from three different scorers to post a 3-0 win against the Binghamton Senators at the Broome County Veterans’ Memorial Arena on Friday night.
The win raised the Penguins’ record above .500 for the first time this season at 6-5-0-0, while the Senators fell to 6-5-1-0.
The shutout was Conklin’s first the American Hockey League regular season in more than four years. His last SO came as a member of the Hamilton Bulldogs against the St. John’s Maple Leafs on March 21, 2003.
It took more than half the game before the first goal was scored, but less than a half a minute for the second.
Ryan Lannon let a blast fly from the blue line just over 17 minutes into the second period, but had his shot stopped by netminder Jeff Glass. The B-Sens stopper couldn’t control the rebound though, which Nathan Smith gobbled up
and backhanded into the net at 17:16.
Seventeen seconds later, the score was suddenly 2-0. Jeff Taffe handed a puck off to Mark Ardelan just above the left faceoff circle in the Binghamton end, and the Pens’ defenseman picked the far corner for his first tally of the year, and the visitors went into the locker room with a two-goal cushion.
Ryan Stone added to the lead 10:59 into the third, beating Glass to a loose puck in front of the Binghamton cage and easily poking home his first of the season.
The Penguins travel to Springfield to take on the Falcons Saturday night at 7:00pm.
NOTES: Scratches for the Pens were Joe Jensen and Jon D’Aversa…Mark Letestu made his 2007-08 Penguins debut in the game.
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