{"id":105188,"date":"2026-02-04T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:30:10","slug":"ahl-game-preview-hershey-bears-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-with-projected-lines-2-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105188\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Hershey Bears at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 2\/4\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AHL-Game-Preview-Hershey-Bears-at-Wilkes-Barre-Scranton-Penguins-with-Projected-Lines-2.4.26.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Hershey Bears at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 2\/4\/26\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: Andrew Pustay-Inside the Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears (20-15-5-2, 47 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (29-12-2-2, 62 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza<br \/>Date: 2\/4\/26<br \/>Time: 7:05 PM EST<br \/>TV: FLO Sports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Hershey beat Utica 4-3 in overtime last Saturday. They now have a 2-1-1-1 record, scoring an average of 2.8 goals per game while allowing three goals per game. Hershey has struggled against the Penguins so far this year with a 1-4-0-1 record in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Penguins beat up the Phantoms on Sunday with a 6-2 victory. They now have a 3-2-0-0 record, scoring an average of 3.6 goals per game while conceding 2.8 goals per game. The Penguins have a 5-1-0-0 record against the Bears this season.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Cristall-Protas-Miroshnichenko<br \/>Leason-Rybinski-Clarke<br \/>Smith-Cruikshank-Nachbaur<br \/>-Strome-Hofer<\/p>\n<p>Schueneman-Chesley<br \/>Muggli-Belpedio<br \/>McDonald-Webb<br \/>Waugh<\/p>\n<p>Gibson<br \/>Eisele<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Harvey-Pinard-Klassen-Koivunen<br \/>Howe-Huglen-Hayes<br \/>Imama-Calvert-McDonough<br \/>Gallant-Renwick-Urdahl<\/p>\n<p>Pietila-Dumba<br \/>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Pieniniemi-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Ilya Protas leads the Bears in points with 35, goals with 17, and in plus\/minus with a +11. Andrew Cristall leads the team with 25 assists this year. Graeme Clarke has 11 goals and seven assists this season for 18 total points for Hershey.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/tristan-broz\/\" id=\"8194\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Broz<\/a>\u00a0leads the Penguins in points with 28 and in goals with 14 on the year. Atley Calvert leads the active roster with 16 assists this season.\u00a0Finn Harding\u00a0leads the team in plus\/minus as a rookie with a +18. Avery Hayes has 12 goals and ten assists for 22 total points for the Penguins in 30 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Hershey: February 7 vs. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\/\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a><br \/>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: February 6 at <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/lehigh-valley-phantoms\/\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/lehigh-valley-phantoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley Phantoms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770233410_241_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Andrew Pustay-Inside the Rink) Hershey Bears (20-15-5-2, 47 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (29-12-2-2, 62 pts) Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,26869,9121,34806,44349,50836,26871,5158,26872,178,180,179,5461,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-105188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-andrew-cristall","10":"tag-atley-calvert","11":"tag-avery-hayes","12":"tag-finn-harding","13":"tag-graeme-clarke","14":"tag-hershey-bears","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-ilya-protas","17":"tag-scranton","18":"tag-scranton-headlines","19":"tag-scranton-news","20":"tag-tristan-broz","21":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}