Apr 16, 2006 2 min read

Baby Pens end regular season with 4-3 victory over Phantoms WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) – Krys Kolanos scored the game-winning goal in overtime as the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins ended their regular season with a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phantoms on Saturday night in the American Hockey League.

The Penguins (51-18-5-6) open the playoffs against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Thursday. Brent Kelly had a hat trick for the Phantoms (34-37-2-7), the reigning Calder Cup champions, who missed the playoffs for the second time in the franchise’s 10-year history.

Kolanos finished the game when he took a cross-crease pass from Drew Fata 3:04 into overtime and whipped a shot past goalie Rejean Beauchemin. The Penguins scored their other three goals on their first five shots of the game.

Stephen Dixon made it 1-0 when he knocked in the rebound of a Kenny Corupe shot at 2:55. Daniel Carcillo gave the Penguins a 2-1 edge with a shorthanded breakaway goal and Jonathan Filewich made it 3-1 when he tipped a Guillaume Lefebvre shot past Beauchemin.

Kelly singlehandedly kept the Phantoms within striking distance.

In the first period, he nudged a centering pass from Stefan Ruzicka from behind the net past goalie Dany Sabourin to make it 1-1.

In the second period, Ruzicka lost a puck trying to bring it out from behind the net, but Kelly was in position to fire it past Sabourin from the top of the crease to make it 3-2.

Kelly completed his hat trick when, with the goalie pulled, he picked up a loose puck along the goal line to Sabourin’s right and flipped it into the net to tie the score 3-3 with 18 seconds left.