Berglund Scores His First in Phantoms’ Season Finale

Charlotte, NC – Jack Berglund broke by way of on a breakaway objective within the third interval for his first in North America however the Charlotte Checkers racked up a quartet of power-play markers en path to a 4-1 victory on Sunday afternoon within the season finale.

Lehigh Valley (31-35-6) break up the concluding weekend to place the ending touches of the twelfth season for the Phantoms in downtown Allentown since arriving in 2014.

Yaniv Perets (23/27) was unable to copy his shutout mastery of the day earlier than however nonetheless made a number of robust denials of the Checkers in his second consecutive begin. Carson Bjarnason was unavailable as a consequence of a minor damage and Keith Petruzzelli was summoned from Studying to function backup.

Jack Studnicka (eleventh, twelfth) hit the put up two instances within the first interval after which discovered the again of the web a pair of instances within the third interval to tempo Charlotte (44-23-5) in its last tuneup earlier than the Calder Cup Playoffs.

Sandis Vilmanis (seventeenth) scored on a one-timer late within the first interval to get the Checkers on the board. Zayde Knowledge was stuffed on a fast breakaway strive by Louis Domingue after a nifty arrange bu Tucker Robertson.

A scoreless however chippy second interval adopted with each groups taking the chance to get their final licks in on one another within the last assembly of the marketing campaign. There wasn’t a ton of 5-on-5 hockey by way of the sport because the Checkers went 4-for-8 on the ability play whereas limiting Lehigh Valley to 0-for-7.

Ben Steeves (twenty third) knocked one residence within the opening seconds of the third interval to make it 2-0.

Domingue exited early within the third interval with an obvious damage and Charlotte backup goaltender Kirill Gerasimyuk was introduced in for the remainder of the competition.

Jack Studnicka cranked up a 4-on-3 one-timer from the highest of the left circle to spice up the margin to 3-0.

Berglund dug the puck away within the nook of the Phantoms zone and was off to the races on somewhat give-and-go in his personal finish. He emerged on a 2-on-1 however took the puck to the web himself to attain his first objective with the Phantoms in simply his fifth recreation with the crew. Berglund joined Lehigh Valley two weeks in the past simply because the 2024 second-rounder was celebrating his twentieth birthday. He was considered one of a number of thrilling new additions and younger prospects to reach to the Orange and Black within the concluding weeks of the marketing campaign.

Studnicka zipped up the left wing and drove straight at Perets for his second of the competition to conclude the scoring. And the season.

Lane Pederson was Lehigh Valley’s scoring chief with 48 factors and was additionally tops on the crew with 23 targets. Pederson was unavailable the final two weeks of the season as a consequence of damage. Jacob Gaucher completed second on the crew with 20 targets for his second consecutive season scoring precisely 20.

Anthony Richard recorded his twenty seventh help on Berglund’s objective within the third interval and completed with 27 helpers to tempo the crew.

Whereas the season is now concluded for the Phantoms, lots of the gamers will proceed their work as a part of the Black Aces follow squad with the Philadelphia Flyers as they be part of the NHL crew for its Stanley Cup Playoff run.

Keep tuned to phantomshockey.com for upcoming roster information and participant signings and re-signings in addition to the 2026-27 schedule unveiling doubtless coming in July. The Phantoms might be again at PPL Heart in September for preseason video games with Opening Night time slated for someday in October.