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ON THE COVER Alex D’Orio’s path to WilkesBarre/Scranton has been anything but a straight line.

After starting the season in Pittsburgh on the NHL club’s taxi squad, the goaltending prospect made his way to Wheeling, before eventually earning a recall to the AHL Pens.

Read up on D’Orio and how he’s been able to carve out his niche in NEPA this season in our COVER STORY.

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D’ORIO DEVELOPING INTO SOLID PRESENCE IN PENS NET

By Nick Hart

After the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ 6-3 win over the Hershey Bears on Sunday, head coach J.D. Forrest and team captain Josh Currie both used the same word in their postgame press conferences.

“Fantastic.”

But when using that word, they weren’t referencing the team’s effort or the catharsis of beating their in-state rival. Independently of one another, both Forrest and Currie used that adjective to describe the play of their goaltender, Alex D’Orio.

D’Orio turned aside 26 shots in the Penguins’ victory, a triumph that was in part emblematic of his development this season. The rookie netminder has earned the trust of his teammates in his short stay with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton so far this season, but this opportunity didn’t arrive by happenstance for D’Orio. He’s had to earn it.

“Our conversations have remained constant, with a growth mindset at the forefront,” said the Penguins goaltending development coach, Andy Chiodo. “We’ve been reiterating that we have to earn everything through practice, through our performance in games. If there’s an opportunity to be had, we’re constantly reiterating that you have to earn it.”

D’Orio started this season as the second goaltender on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ taxi squad. He remembers that segment of the season fondly, referencing the positive impact of being able to observe the NHLers work habits first-hand, but the reality is those first two months kept him idle while everyone else was playing.

Then, after close to a year without seeing game action, D’Orio was suddenly thrown into the fire as the Wheeling Nailers’ starter in the ECHL. The inactivity had D’Orio’s puck-stopping ability in a virtual power outage. For the first few games in Wheeling, he was routinely giving up four or more goals a game. His stats took a nosedive, and a lesser athlete may have let his confidence follow in that downward trajectory.

“That’s when ‘Earn It’ was born,” Chiodo said. “His first few

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games were ADSfar from his standard, and we had a conversation.

You can’t come to Wilkes-Barre until you earn your way from Wheeling. You can’t get to the NHL until you earn your way out of the American Hockey League.

“I think with that thought in mind, Alex really shifted his focus. He got in the present, he started stopping pucks, one thing leads to another, and it snowballs.”

In his next five games with the Nailers, D’Orio posted a 1.80 goals against average and .931 save percentage, including his first professional shutout. That earned his a call-up to WilkesBarre/Scranton, where he has since procured a 2.59 goals against average and his first AHL win.

Unfortunately, that win-loss record doesn’t reflect just how solid D’Orio has been in his first extended look at the AHL level. D’Orio’s agility and athleticism has kept the Penguins in a lot of games, bringing them to down-to-the-wire finishes only not to be rewarded in the end. If you think the lack of victories would discourage the youngster, you’d be dead wrong. It hasn’t fazed him at all. In fact, he’s been embracing that adversity as part of his development.

“I’ve been working on letting go, mentally,” D’Orio said. “Things are going to happen, that’s hockey. I have to keep building and keep going for the rest of the game. A couple goals or a bad bounce can’t shake me. That’s a lot of my focus this season.”

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Continued From Page 7 Which brings us back to Sunday’s game. Played at a dizzying pace, the two ads I-81 rivals traded goals throughout the first 40 minutes. D’Orio surrendered a power-play goal, a shorthanded goal, and a goal that fooled him when a shot went wide but took a volcanic bounce off the boards to an open player at the unprotected side of the net. Right in line with his mental objective, D’Orio shook off those three goals against held firm when he was under fire in the third period.

Hershey took 16 shots in the final frame in an attempt to mount a comeback. Many of those bids came during a pair of Bears power plays. Two of those shots were breakaways. D’Orio steered away all 16 to keep his team in the lead and lock down the win.

After so many close calls that didn’t go D’Orio’s way, Chiodo is hoping to see that successful third period performance springboard the 22-year-old to another stratosphere of promising play.

“For Alex to be able to take a step in the third period like that and rise and elevate his game, I think it’s a testament to his character and his ability to be a gamer,” Chiodo said. “A period like that, it’s a marker that you’re working on the right things, that your game is in a good place, that you’ve got some gamer in you. This was the marker telling you that you’re capable.”

Where D’Orio goes from here in his development is yet to be seen, but whatever come next, he knows that he’ll have to earn it.

And that’s a mentality he’s fully embraced.

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THIS DATE IN PENGUINS HISTORY APRIL 28, 2006 - Ryan Stone scored at 13:39 of overtime to give the Penguins a 3-2 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and evened the East Division Semifinals series at three games apiece. Noah Welch and Jonathan Filewich netted regulation goals for the Pens, while Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 shots to record the win in goal. The victory forced a decisive Game Seven the following night in Wilkes-Barre, a contest which the Penguins won, 5-4.

APRIL 28, 2012 - Cal O’Reilly and Zach Sill (pictured) scored goals just seven seconds apart in the second period, and that was all the offense the Penguins would need to secure a 2-1 win over the Hershey Bears in Game Five of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series, and advance to the second round of the Calder Cup Playoffs. Brad Thiessen was steady in net, stopping 18 of 19 shots he faced for the home team.

APRIL 28, 2013 - Riley Holzapfel, Chris Collins and Warren Peters recorded goals to lead the Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the Binghamton Senators in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Jeff Zatkoff stopped 35 shots in the win.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU: Defenseman Will O’Neill (4/28/88) had two stints with the Penguins (2015-16, 2018-19), recording 58 points (8+50) in 102 games. He also represented the Penguins at the 2016 AHL All-Star Game in Syracuse….

Defenseman Niclas Anderson (4/28/88) spent his lone AHL season (2015-16) suiting up for the Pens. He posted 14 points (4+10) in 69 games with Wilkes-Barre…Current Penguins goaltender Alex D’Orio (4/28/99) recorded his first career AHL win with a 22 save performance against Binghamton on March 31, 2021

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