Penguins GM and POHO Kyle Dubas traded a 2027 fourth-round pick to Nashville for Philip Tomasino - and it's paying dividends for Pittsburgh so far. The Wilkes/Barre-Scranton Penguins [https://www.wbspenguins.com/] defeated the Charlotte Checkers 6-4 on Wednesday [https://theahl.com/stats/game-center/1026824], thanks to Boris Katchouk [https://theahl.com/stats/player/6779/86/boris-katchouk] scoring four goals. It was the first time in the 26-year-old's professional career that he scored more than two goals in a contest. At 12:41 of the first period, Katchouk opened the scoring with a penalty shot goal. The Checkers responded with only two goals in the middle frame, taking a 2-1 lead into the third period. The Penguins tied it at 3:43 with Tristan Broz's goal before Katchouk restored their one-goal lead at 5:23. However, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton wasn't done scoring yet. Bokondji Imama put his team ahead by two at 6:38, followed by Katchouk's hat trick power-play goal at 8:43. Charlotte made things interesting with tallies at 17:02 and 18:31, but Katchouk fired one into the empty net for his fourth goal of the night, securing the 6-4 victory at 19:32. As the game's first star, Katchouk boasted a perfect shooting percentage, going 4-for-4, finishing his night plus-2. Thanks to his magical night, Katchouk is now tied with Broz and Ville Koivunen in team scoring, with 11 goals and 15 points in 19 games. The former Tampa Bay Lightning second-round pick (44th overall) has played only 176 NHL games [https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/k/katchbo01.html] and has scored 15 goals and 36 points. This is Katchouk's first season with the Penguins organization, and he is a veteran of 192 AHL games [https://theahl.com/stats/player/6779/86/boris-katchouk] with 50 goals and 110 points. He is just three goals shy of matching his best season in the minors, which came as a member of the Syracuse Crunch in 2019-20. With the win, the Penguins improved to 13-6-1-0 and remain in second place in the Atlantic Division, ten points behind the Hershey Bears. Image [https://thehockeynews.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjEwNjYwNDIwMDI3OTUwOTI5/thnpitbanner.png]
