Photo Credit: The Lehigh Valley Phantoms
It couldn’t be right!!!! The Lehigh Valley Phantoms did it, they pulled the unthinkable sweep of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Jacob Gaucher slammed home the rebound in overtime, off a shot by Brendan Furry. That’s not all fir Gaucher, he was a key cog in the comeback, as well, that lead to the game winning goal that sent the Penguins home packing.
Gaucher’s goal gave the Phantoms their first series victory since 2018. First series victory since 2018, just unreal stuff after coming back twice.
Lehigh Valley rallied from 3-1, and then 4-3 deficits in the third period to get the game into overtime. Emil Andrae and Tanner Laczynski’s power-play goals were scored 22 seconds apart to tie the game with 7:23 to play.
Radim Zohorna put the Penguins back on top with 3:48 left, and that sucked the energy right out of the building.Tanner Laczynski had other ideas though as he scored his second goal of the game just 34 seconds later. He really has become the Phantoms most complete forward.
Cal Petersen is playing very well with the Phantoms. For the playoffs he has allowed five goals, is 2-0, has a 2.46 GAA, and a .900 Save Percentage.
Petersen has a 2.00 GAA since heading back to the Phantoms from the Flyers. He has been moving from post to post well.
Cal Petersen really is making timely saves and big time saves to keep the momentum going for the Phantoms. .
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Samuel Ersson
Ersson as expected is on the WC squad. Yes, you read that properly, Ersson was expected to make Team Sweden, as he is one of their top netminders in the country at the moment.
At exit interviews, Ersson did say he would play in the World Championships if he was asked.
Congrats to him
