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Prior to the 2009–10 season, they held the inaugural Penguins Black and Gold Game, an intra-squad game which featured members of the Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and was the first ever head-to-head meeting between Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. The game was a complete sellout and tickets never reached the general public.
The Mavericks are only the second arena football team to play in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton region and the first since the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers of the original af2 that played from 2002 to 2009, playing in two ArenaCup title games losing to the Tulsa Talons in 2007 and the Spokane Shock in 2009.
In the schedule 6 weeks were played, listed below is each game in the schedule. Week 1. Hazleton Redskins 14 vs. Wilkes-Barre Panthers 0 (October 2, 1938 in Wilkes-Barre) Reading Rams 6 vs. Scranton Miners 0 (October 2, 1938 in Reading) Week 2. Reading Rams 9 vs. Wilkes-Barre Panthers 3 (October 9, 1938 in Reading)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Sports in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Football Women's Football Alliance: West Allegheny High School: Hershey Bears: Ice hockey: American Hockey League: Giant Center: Lehigh Valley Phantoms: Ice hockey American Hockey League PPL Center: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins: Ice hockey American Hockey League Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza: Reading Royals: Ice hockey ECHL: Santander ...
It has been home to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL since 1999, and the former home of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers of the AF2 League. In 2012, there were plans for it to be the home indoor arena for the Pennsylvania Shamrocks of the North American Lacrosse League, but the league subsequently folded.
The 2009 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season was the team's eighth season of arena football. The Pioneers made another attempt to return to the ArenaCup after falling out of the playoff race for ArenaCup IX .
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