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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s next game is Friday, Apr. The two clubs combined for 78 shots, the highest single-game total for a Penguins game this season. Tokarski finished the game with 33 saves. Later, Danick Martel tacked on an empty-net goal for good measure. Laval put the game out of reach with a snap shot by Gabriel Bourque with 2:14 left in regulation. That lead extended to 2-0 when Jesse Ylönen fired a bar-down one-timer during a two-man advantage at 7:22 of the third. The Rocket netminder fended off another flurry at the start of the third period, keeping his team’s one-goal lead intact.

The Penguins put 20 shots on net during the second stanza, but Primeau turned them all aside. Primeau saw what Tokarski did in the first period and answered with his own virtuoso performance in the second.

He was asked to make several difficult stops throughout the rest of the opening frame, all of which prompted eye-popping saves. Penguins goalie Dustin Tokarski became virtually unbeatable after the Harvey-Pinard man-advantage marker. Two seconds into a Laval power play, Harvey-Pinard stole the puck off a faceoff and rifled it to the short-side top corner. Raphaël Harvey-Pinard buried the game’s first goal at 2:36 of the first period. With his lights-out showing, Primeau tied his AHL career-high for saves in a game and established a new personal record for saves in a shutout. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (26-31-7-6) threw 41 shots on goal, but none got past Laval goaltender Cayden Primeau. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins ran into a stellar goaltending performance in their 4-0 defeat at the hands of the Laval Rocket on Monday night at Place Bell. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.
