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<p>Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Conor Sheary has been good over the 20-plus games he&#8217;s played this season.</p><p>Very good.</p><p>The kind of good that makes you wonder when he&#8217;ll get his shot with the big club in Pittsburgh.</p><p>Sheary, now in his third season with the Penguins, entered into Friday night&#8217;s game against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms with six goals and 16 assists for 22 points. Up to that point, Sheary had been a point-per-game player, competing in all of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton&#8217;s 22 contests in the young American Hockey League season.</p><p>Before Friday night&#8217;s tilt, Sheary had scored four goals in his last six games, which is something that the 23-year old forward has been working on lately.</p><p>&#8220;You can always improve, even on my offense,&#8221; Sheary said. &#8220;Early in the year I wasn&#8217;t scoring much and I have really been working on my shot. Lately I&#8217;ve been able to put a few pucks in the net, so I think that&#8217;s helped.&#8221;</p><p>To say he&#8217;s improved over his three years in the AHL is putting it mildly.</p><p>In his first year, 2013-14, Sheary only played two regular-season games near the end of the season, but got his pro career off to a great start with a huge playoff performance amassing six goals and five assists for 11 points. He was second on the team in goals that post season behind former NHL&#8217;er Chuck Kobasew.</p><p>Last season, the forward played in 58 regular-season games and tallied 45 points on 20 goals and 25 assists. At the end of that 2014-15 campaign, Sheary led the team in points and was second overall in goals. He didn&#8217;t turn it off in the playoffs either and ended up leading the team in goals (5), assists (7) and points (12).</p><p>Sheary said he&#8217;s ready for a call up and that moving up a level is always the goal for any player. He also noted that even though he&#8217;s had success he wants to make sure that his level of play remains a constant.</p><p>&#8220;If you play well, hopefully you&#8217;ll get a chance,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It all depends on what they need up there in Pittsburgh with injuries and stuff like that. You never know when you could get a call up. Even if you are playing well you&#8217;ve got to wait for your turn, but if I keep playing well down here hopefully I&#8217;ll get a chance.</p><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a total game. They&#8217;ve seen everyone down here play enough times to know what they are going to bring to the table and I just want to stick to my game. Obviously in the playoffs I&#8217;ve had success, but just playoffs isn&#8217;t going to get you a spot on the [Pittsburgh] roster. You&#8217;ve got to continue to play well throughout the regular season too.&#8221;</p><p>With the recent retirement of Pascal Dupuis from the Pittsburgh Penguins, the club has a lessened pool of forwards at the NHL level. This means that an injury or slight change could spell for a call up or two from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton team.</p><p>&#8220;You never know what could happen,&#8221; Sheary said. &#8220;I hope that I&#8217;m in the mix and I hope that the way I&#8217;m playing has caught their eye.&#8221;</p><p>Sheary broke his point-per-game play on Friday night against the Phantoms. In a good way. With two assists in the contest he became a 1.04-point-per-game player and continued to lead the team with 24 points on the season.</p><p>As of Saturday morning, Sheary has played in 84 regular season games at the AHL level. If he earns a call up from Pittsburgh this season it will be the first of his career. For Sheary, it would be a chance to show the Penguins they were right to sign him as an undrafted player.</p><p>&#8220;I just want to prove my game in general,&#8221; Sheary said. &#8220;It would be my first opportunity in the NHL and if I got that opportunity I&#8217;d want to play my game and play well. I understand that I might not be able to produce as much up there as I can down here, but I think that I can still play my game hard and work hard to prove that I can play up there.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Conor Sheary (right) is in his third season with the Penguins entered Friday night&#8217;s game against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms with six goals and 16 assists for 22 points. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web1_pens_wp3_faa-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Conor Sheary (right) is in his third season with the Penguins entered Friday night&#8217;s game against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms with six goals and 16 assists for 22 points. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web1_Sheary-Mug-1.jpg">
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Conor Sheary ready for next step