Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nSpringfield Thunderbirds News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Thunderbirds finished last season 32-32-6-2, taking the final playoff spot in the Atlantic Division. They shocked a lot of people with a deep playoff run, eliminating the Checkers, then the AHL\u2019s best team in Providence, before the Penguins ended their season in the division finals. They went 1-3-0-0 against Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton in the regular season, averaging 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Penguins went 46-17-7-2 with 101 points and were one of the best in the AHL, finishing third in the AHL. They followed that up with a run to the Eastern Conference Finals, eliminating Hershey and Springfield before the Calder Cup Champion Marlies eliminated them. They went 3-1-0-0 against Springfield in the regular season, averaging 4.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Springfield Thunderbirds Opening Roster:<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
8 \u2013 Justin Carbonneau
12 \u2013 Nathan Walker
13 \u2013 Kale Kessy
17 \u2013 T.J. Tynan
18 \u2013 Juraj Pekarcik
21 \u2013 Jakub Stancl
22 \u2013 Dylan Peterson
25 \u2013 Sam Strange
26 \u2013 Simon Robertsson
28 \u2013 Otto Stenberg
37 \u2013 Jack Finley
41 \u2013 Aleksanteri Kaskimaki
70 \u2013 Oskar Sundqvist
71 \u2013 Nikita Susuyev
88 \u2013 Chris Wagner<\/p>\n
Defensemen<\/p>\n
5 \u2013 Colin Ralph
6 \u2013 Lukas Fischer
9 \u2013 Michael Buchinger
16 \u2013 Ryan Wheeler
42 \u2013 Quinton Burns
43 \u2013 Calle Rosen
45 \u2013 Marc-Andre Gaudet
48 \u2013 Arseni Koromyslov<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
30 \u2013 Georgi Romanov
40 \u2013 Will Cranley<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Opening Roster:<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Rutger McGroarty
8 \u2013 Oliver Okuliar
23 \u2013 Bill Zonnon
24 \u2013 Hugh McGing
26 \u2013 Tristan Broz
36 \u2013 Max Graham
40 \u2013 Tanner Howe
43 \u2013 Melvin Fernstrom
48 \u2013 Rafael Harvey-Pinard
53 \u2013 Lucas Ciona
64 \u2013 Tiernan Shoudy
70 \u2013 Mikhail Ilyin
74 \u2013 Daniel Russell
83 \u2013 Brayden Edwards
84 \u2013 Atley Calvert
85 \u2013 Avery Hayes<\/p>\n
Defensemen<\/p>\n
4 \u2013 Jake Livanavage
38 \u2013 Owen Pickering
44 \u2013 Chase Pietila
45 \u2013 Harrison Brunicke
50 \u2013 Finn Harding
52 \u2013 Phil Kemp
54 \u2013 Maleek McGowan
56 \u2013 Ryan Mast
82 \u2013 Caleb Jones<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
30 \u2013 Joel Blomqvist
33 \u2013 Taylor Gauthier
35 \u2013 Gabriel D\u2019Aigle<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
Springfield Thunderbirds<\/p>\n
Chris Wagner led the team in points and goals with 50 points and 24 goals. Calle Rosen finished the season with 29 assists; 23 of those came after he was acquired by Springfield. Otto Stenberg led in plus\/minus with a plus-two. Georgi Romanov returns after going 9-12-3 with a 3.29 goals-against average, an .896 save percentage, and a shutout. He led Springfield on their deep playoff run, going 7-4-0 with a 1.84 goals-against average, a .939 save percentage, and two shutouts.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n
Ville Koivunen finished second in points with 41 but is the returning team leader. Koivunen also led the team in assists with 28. Avery Hayes led in goals with 24. Finn Harding led in plus\/minus with a +32. Joel Blomqvist takes over in goal after going 16-5-4 with a 2.40 goals-against average, a .913 save percentage, and a shutout.<\/p>\n
Next Game:<\/p>\n
Springfield: October 4 at Providence Bruins
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: October 4 vs. Hartford Wolf Pack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springfield Thunderbirds (0-0-0-0, 0 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (0-0-0-0, 0 pts) Venue: Mohegan Sun at Casey PlazaDate: Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,32689,34806,21948,55639,44349,84994,22107,55640,178,180,179,21952,5462,5161],"class_list":["post-299064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ahl","tag-ahl-game-preview","tag-avery-hayes","tag-calle-rosen","tag-chris-wagner","tag-finn-harding","tag-georgi-romanov","tag-joel-blomqvist","tag-otto-stenberg","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-springfield-thunderbirds","tag-ville-koivunen","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299064","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=299064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}