{"id":117158,"date":"2026-02-18T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:22:10","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-springfield-thunderbirds-with-projected-lines-02-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117158\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Springfield Thunderbirds with Projected Lines 02\/18\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-1-26.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (32-13-3-2, 69 pts) at Springfield Thunderbirds (18-24-4-2, 42 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: MassMutual Center<br \/>Date: Wednesday, February 18<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>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Penguins dropped back-to-back games out of the All-Star break, first losing 5-0 to Syracuse on Saturday, then they\u00a0suffered a 4-3 overtime loss to the Monsters on Sunday. They\u2019re 2-0-0-0 against Springfield this season, averaging three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds\u00a0wrapped up a six-game road trip with back-to-back wins over the Iowa Wild. They went 2-4-0-0 on the trip, averaging three goals per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game. They outscored Iowa over the weekend 14-9. They\u2019re 0-2-0-0 against the Penguins this season, averaging 1.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">McGroarty-Broz-Hayes<br \/>Fernstrom-Koppanen-Koivunen<br \/>Howe-Huglen-Harvey-Pinard<br \/>Imama-Klassen-McDonough<\/p>\n<p>Pietila-Dumba<br \/>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Pieniniemi-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Stenberg-Dube-Wagner<br \/>Kaskimaki-Bordeleau-Luff<br \/>Pekarcik-Stancl-McGing<br \/>Kessy-Dean-Susuev<\/p>\n<p>Rosen-Buchinger<br \/>Lindstein-Skinner<br \/>Burns-Berzolla<\/p>\n<p>Cranley<br \/>Zherenko<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Tristan Broz\u00a0leads the Penguins in points with 30.\u00a0Avery Hayes\u00a0leads the team in goals with 16. Ville Koivunen leads in assists with 20 this season.\u00a0Finn Harding\u00a0leads the team in plus\/minus as a rookie with a +21 rating this season. <\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Matt Luff leads the Thunderbirds in points and assists with 38 points and 24 assists. Chris Wagner leads the team in goals with 15. Otto Stenberg leads the team in plus\/minus, with a plus-three.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-next-game-iowa-february-19-at-chicago-wolves-springfield-february-18-vs-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\">Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: February 21 vs. Bridgeport Islanders<br \/>Springfield: February 20 vs. Bridgeport Islanders<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (32-13-3-2, 69 pts) at Springfield Thunderbirds (18-24-4-2, 42 pts)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[34806,55639,44349,21950,55640,178,180,179,21952,5461,5462,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-117158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-avery-hayes","9":"tag-chris-wagner","10":"tag-finn-harding","11":"tag-matt-luff","12":"tag-otto-stenberg","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news","16":"tag-springfield-thunderbirds","17":"tag-tristan-broz","18":"tag-ville-koivunen","19":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117158","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=117158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}