{"id":138908,"date":"2026-03-15T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138908\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:54:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-lehigh-valley-phantoms-with-projected-lines-03-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138908\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Lehigh Valley Phantoms with Projected Lines 03\/15\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: FloHockey)<\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (36-15-6-2, 80 pts) at Lehigh Valley Phantoms (26-26-3-3, 58 pts) <\/p>\n

Venue: PPL Center
Date: 3\/15\/26
Time: 3:05 PM EST
TV: FLO Sports<\/p>\n

Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Penguins lost in overtime on Saturday to the Phantoms, 4-3. In their previous five games, the Penguins have a 0-2-3-0 record, scoring 2.4 goals per game while conceding 3.6. They now have a 6-0-1-1 record against the Phantoms this season. The Penguins have a five-point lead over the Charlotte Checkers for the second seed in the Atlantic Division, but Charlotte does have a game in hand. If the Penguins can hold off Charlotte, they will get the first-round bye and wait for the winner of the best-of-three series between the Atlantic\u2019s four and five seeds.<\/p>\n

Lehigh Valley Phantoms New & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Phantoms made it two straight wins after beating the Penguins in overtime 4-3 on Saturday. In their last five games, the Phantoms have a 2-2-1-0 record, scoring 3.8 goals per game while allowing 3.8. They improved their season record against the Penguins to 2-6-0-0 on the year. The Phantoms currently hold the five seed in the Atlantic Division with a two-point lead over the Bridgeport Islanders and have a game in hand. With only four points separating the Phantoms from the Hershey Bears and the fourth seed in the Division, the Phantoms also have a game in hand over the Hershey Bears. Still time for some shifting in seeding before the playoffs start.<\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Howe-Koppanen-Harvey-Pinard
McGroarty-Klassen-Calvert
McDonough-Huglen-Fernstorm
Gallant-Renwick-Urdahl<\/p>\n

Graves-St. Ivany
Pickering-Kemp
Pietila-Harding<\/p>\n

Murashov
Blomqvist<\/p>\n

Lehigh Valley Phantoms Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Katchouk-Pederson-Richard
Harrison-Dorwart-Tomasino
Eklind-Gaucher-Powell
-Wisdom-Robertson<\/p>\n

McDonald-Bonk
Grans-Jiricek
Ginning-Guenette
Kyrou<\/p>\n

Kolosov
Bjarnason<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n

Tristan Broz<\/a> leads the Penguins with 34 points and leads the active roster in assists with 20. Aidan McDonough<\/a> leads the active roster in goals with 16 this season. Rookie Finn Harding<\/a> leads the Penguins in plus\/minus this year with a +26 rating.<\/p>\n

Lehigh Valley Phantoms<\/p>\n

Lane Pederson<\/a> leads the Phantoms in points with 42 and in goals with 21 this season. Anthony Richard<\/a> leads the team in assists with 25. Rookie Ty Murchison<\/a> leads the team in plus\/minus with a +12 rating this year.<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: March 18 at Laval Rocket<\/a>
Lehigh Valley: March 18 vs. Providence Bruins<\/a><\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

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: FloHockey) Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (36-15-6-2, 80 pts) at Lehigh Valley Phantoms (26-26-3-3, 58 pts) Venue: PPL CenterDate:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,32689,30206,9120,44349,5158,29974,4507,178,180,179,5461,27611,5161],"class_list":["post-138908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ahl","tag-ahl-game-preview","tag-aidan-mcdonough","tag-anthony-richard","tag-finn-harding","tag-hockey","tag-lane-pederson","tag-lehigh-valley-phantoms","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-tristan-broz","tag-ty-murchison","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138908","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=138908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}