Penguins Continue Winning Ways On Road

Ryan Lannon’s goal is the game winner as WBS improves to 3-1 on five-game road trip.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – It took two and a half years, but Ryan Lannon is finally getting the hang of this scoring thing.
Lannon, a defensive defenseman who snapped a 127-game goal drought on Nov. 21, scored his second in nine days to propel the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins past the Syracuse Crunch 4-2 on Friday night at the Onondaga County War Memorial.
Lannon beat Crunch goalie Adam Munro at 9:20 of the third period with what turned out to be the game-winning goal.
The win allowed Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-10-0-0) to improve to 3-1-0-0 on a five-game road trip that wraps up in Hershey tonight.
The Penguins came back from deficits of 1-0 and 2-1, scoring the game’s final three goals after a rough start.
Syracuse’s Steven Goertzen scored on the Crunch’s first shot just 42 seconds into the game.
The Penguins answered at 3:37 on a goal by Tim Brent, his second of the season.
Syracuse went back in front a little over two minutes later when Joakim Lindstrom, the reigning AHL Player of the Week, scored his 11th of the year at 5:42.
That was all the Crunch could get against Penguins starter Ty Conklin.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, which out shot the Crunch 17-8 in the first and 36-29 on the night, tied it up at 10:14 of the second on Tim Wallace’s second of the year.
Nathan Smith and Ben Lovejoy had the assists.
Smith also set up Lannon’s goal in the third that put the Penguins on top 3-2.
Jeff Taffe scored the insurance marker at 14:30.
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