Checkers Wallop Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 6-2

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The Checkers bounced back in a big way Saturday night, walloping Wilkes-Barre/Scranton by a score of 6-2.

After a tightly contested start to the contest, Charlotte’s power-play was redeemed late in the frame as Zac Dalpe took a Rasmus Asplund feed and blasted it into the back of the net to give his team the advantage heading into the first intermission.



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The middle frame is where the visitors really came alive. Brendan Perlini gathered a drop pass and sniped a shot in midway through the period to double Charlotte’s lead, then Matt Kiersted threaded a puck through traffic less than a minute later to extend that lead even further. The Checkers had one more in them before the buzzer, as Patrick Giles buried a Casey Fitzgerald dump off the end boards in the final minute of the period to amass a 4-0 advantage through 40 minutes of play.



Giles wasn’t ready to sit back, though, as he knocked in a feed from Skyler Brind’Amour on a shorthanded odd-man rush just 23 seconds into the final frame to keep Charlotte pushing. The Penguins would finally break through in the third on a couple of tallies, but the Ludovic Waeber and the Checkers wouldn’t break. Dalpe’s second power-play marker late in the contest would ultimately put the game on ice for the visitors, and Charlotte would claim a decisive victory on the road.



NOTES

The Checkers are now 1-1-0-0 during this three-in-three weekend that wraps up tomorrow in Lehigh Valley … This was the third time the Checkers have scored six goals in a game this season … The Checkers snapped a run of four straight games allowing a power-play goal … Ludovic Waeber has made at least 24 saves in each of his last three appearances … This was the first multi-goal and multi-point game of Giles’ career … Giles has four goals in his last four games. He scored three across his 72-game rookie year … Tonight was the second multi-point outing that Uvis Balinskis has had in his six games with the Checkers … Kiersted’s goal was his first since Oct. 27 … Casey Fitzgerald has four assists in his last four games … Wilmer Skoog has assists in two of his last three games since being recalled from the ECHL … Perlini has goals in each of his last two games … This was Dalpe’s first multi-goal game of the season … Ryan McAllister, Alexander True, Jake Wise, Cam Morrison, Will Reilly, Dennis Cesana, Santtu Kinnunen and Mack Guzda were the scratches for Charlotte