I can't have it both ways, right?

I can't say that it's exciting that this organization has all this youth and that all this youth has translated into a successful HL operation,

and then in the very first game of Calder Cup playoffs,

yuck, good morning to you, good.

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Lehigh Valley Phantoms 5, Wilkesbury,ranton, Penguins 2 last night in Wilkesbury in game

one of their best of three first round series. Not good. Actually, worse than the score

would indicate because the Phantoms were up five nothing before the penguin scored a

couple of goals in the final five minutes of regulation that meant next to nothing this was

this was not at all but anyone individually or collectively would have wanted to see from this

the penguins were the higher seed.

They absolutely dominated the phantoms in the regular season.

They met 12 times.

They went 8-2-1-1 against them.

And on top of all that, they opened with home ice.

They let it all leak away.

Yuel Blumquist wasn't very good.

Then he got hurt, tweaked something. The goals came from

Avery Hayes and Gabe Classen, which means all these names that we've been singing about for a month

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