Trevor Smith News

I've covered every playoff game in WBS history, 146 of them. I saw J-F Labbe make 50-some saves in postseason game No.

In the first four periods of their Eastern Conference semifinals series with the Providence Bruins, the WBS Penguins gave up 12 goals.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins beat the Providence Bruins, 3-1, on Friday night to avoid a sweep in their Calder Cup Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The WBS Penguins played, without a doubt, their best game of the Eastern Conference semifinals tonight.

Trevor Smith and Chad Kolarik, the most dynamic offensive performers on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins roster, aren't used to being outscored.

"With two solid defensive teams squaring off, every goal will have to be earned and its importance will be magnified." Someone who apparently has no idea what he's talking about wrote that in today's newspaper.

At least that's Holzapfel's approach as his Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins prepare to enter the second round of the playoffs.

Coming into the playoffs, left wing Riley Holzapfel didn't have the flashy credentials that his teammates on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins' top line had.

Round 1 of the AHL playoffs began last weekend, and the 5-seed Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins squared off with Divisional rival 4th-seed Binghamton Senators .

Watching Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Dylan Reese play down the stretch in the regular season and into the playoffs, it would be easy to assume he's got tons of postseason experience.

Because teams are so tight-lipped about injuries in the playoffs, here's pretty much the only thing we know for sure about the WBS Penguins' goaltending situation.

As a member of the Norfolk Admirals, Trevor Smith raised the Calder Cup last June 9 in Toronto.

When the Penguins lost six of their first seven meetings with Binghamton in the regular season, there was something missing from their game.

He wears the captain's C on the front of his jersey. When the team gave out its postseason awards last weekend, he took home the man of the year and most popular player awards.

Punch in the regular-season stats and ask a computer to project how many goals the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will score in the playoffs and smoke will probably start pouring out of the hard drive.

This coming weekend the Binghamton Senators will embark into the AHL Playoffs! They weren't able to win their division falling just one point shy of tying the Syracuse Crunch.

The second of a four-part blog-only series examining the playoff series between the WBS Penguins and Binghamton Senators focuses on the 10-game season series between the teams.

How does a player who spends the regular season going to the dirty areas, banging along the boards and posting in front of the net elevate his game for the playoffs? That's Adam Payerl's game plan as he prepares to play in his first AHL postseason this Saturday when the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins travel to Binghamton for Game 1 against the ... (more)

The way center Trevor Smith sees it, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins shouldn't have spent Sunday afternoon worrying about who they would play in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs.