3 Takeaways: WBS Penguins Drop Game 5 to Toronto, Face Elimination Sunday

Yahoo Sports reports that Throughout the first 40 minutes of Game 5 between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) Penguins and the Toronto Marlies, the Penguins were generating their fair share of scoring chances and giving themselves a good opportunity to win the hockey game.

Unfortunately, the last 20 minutes did them in.

The WBS Penguins were defeated by the Toronto Marlies, 5-1, in Game 5 to go down in the best-of-seven AHL Eastern Conference Final series, 3-2.

They head back home Sunday for Game 6, and Game 7 will also take place in WBS should the game be necessary.

“I thought, in the first two, we were getting a lot of looks," said forward Tanner Howe.

"We were shooting the puck, we were getting a lot of second chances.