{"id":125147,"date":"2026-02-27T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:11:08","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-cleveland-monsters-with-projected-lines-02-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125147\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Cleveland Monsters with Projected Lines 02\/27\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AHL-Game-Preview-Wilkes-Barre.scranton-Penguins-at-Cleveland-Monsters-with-Projected-Lines-02.27.202.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Cleveland Monsters with Projected Lines 02\/27\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Brian Stone Sr.-Inside the Rink&#13;<br \/>\nMonsters: Marisa Filice-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (35-13-3-2, 75 pts) at Cleveland Monsters (28-16-6-1, 63 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Rocket Arena<br \/>Date: 2\/27\/26<br \/>Time: 7:00 PM MST<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 beat the Islanders 4-0 in their last game on Sunday. In their previous five games, they have a 3-1-1-0 record, scoring 3.6 goals per game while giving up 2.8. The Penguins lost their first meeting with the Monsters in overtime, 4-3, back on February 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Monsters New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Monsters beat the Rochester Americans 4-2 on Wednesday. In their previous five games, they have a 4-1-0-0 record, scoring 3.4 goals per game while conceding 2.4. Cleveland won the first meeting 4-3 in overtime earlier this month and will look to make it two in a row when they take the ice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Hallander-Klassen-Koivunen<br \/>McGroarty-Broz-Harvey-Pinard<br \/>McDonough-Huglen-Ferstrom<br \/>Imama-Calvert-Howe<\/p>\n<p>Pickering-Harding<br \/>Aho-Dumba<br \/>Pieniniemi-Kemp<\/p>\n<p>Blmoqvist<br \/>Murashov<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Monsters Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Malatesta-Del Bel Belluz-Pyyhtia<br \/>Ashton-Reese-Guance-Dumais<br \/>Pinelli-Sillinger-Ahcan<br \/>Pearson-Williams-Fasching<\/p>\n<p>Richard-Mayo<br \/>MacDonald-Ceulemans<br \/>Butcher-Marrelli<\/p>\n<p>Fedotov<br \/>Sawchenko<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Tristan%20Broz&amp;post_tag=tristan-broz\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Tristan%20Broz&amp;post_tag=tristan-broz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Broz<\/a> leads the Penguins with 33 points and leads the active roster in goals with 14 this season. Ville Koivunen leads the team in assists with 21. Rookie Finn Harding leads the Penguins in plus\/minus this year with a +23 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Monsers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/ahl-2026-north-division-all-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Del Bel Belluz<\/a>\u00a0leads the Monsters in points with 42, in goals with 14, and in assists with 28. Rookie Guillaume Richard leads the active roster in plus\/minus with a plus-nine this season.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: February 28 at Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-north-division\/cleveland-monsters\/\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-north-division\/cleveland-monsters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monsters<\/a><br \/>Cleveland: February 28 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><\/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\/1772205068_167_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":"Penguins: Brian Stone Sr.-Inside the Rink&#13; Monsters: Marisa Filice-Inside the Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (35-13-3-2, 75 pts) at Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,32689,54639,44349,58579,5158,54641,178,180,179,5461,5462,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-125147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-ahl-game-preview","10":"tag-cleveland-monsters","11":"tag-finn-harding","12":"tag-guillaume-richard","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-luca-del-bel-belluz","15":"tag-scranton","16":"tag-scranton-headlines","17":"tag-scranton-news","18":"tag-tristan-broz","19":"tag-ville-koivunen","20":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125147","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=125147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}