{"id":317647,"date":"2026-10-30T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317647\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:34:21","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-utica-comets-with-projected-lines-10-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317647\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Utica Comets with Projected Lines 10\/30\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UTC-vs-WBS.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-radius:14px;object-fit:cover;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Inside The Rink Gameday Graphic<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (4-3-1-0, 9 pts) at Utica Comets (4-2-0-0, 8 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: NBT Bank Arena<br \/>Date: Friday, October 30<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>TV:\u00a0FLO Sports\u00a0<\/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 News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penguins suffered a 7-3 loss on Friday night before bouncing back with a 3-2 win over the Wolf Pack. They\u2019re averaging 3.9 goals per game while allowing 3.1 goals per game. They went 2-1-0-1 against the Comets last season. <\/p>\n<p>Utica Comets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Comets only played one game last weekend which was a 5-2 loss to the Bruins. They\u2019re averaging 2.5 goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game. They went 2-2-0-0 against the Penguins last season. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-\">Okuliar-Broz-Russell <br \/>Ilyin-Gustafsson-Calvert<br \/>McGing-Zonnon-Edwards<br \/>Ciona-Shoudy-Fernstrom<\/p>\n<p>Pickering-Brunicke<br \/>Johnson-Kemp <br \/>Livanage-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Blomqvist<br \/>Gauthier<\/p>\n<p>Utica Comets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pearson-Schmelzer-Klassen <br \/>Tufte-White-Noesen <br \/>Lachance-McLaughlin-Parent <br \/>Steeves-Melovsky-Hameenaho<\/p>\n<p>Silaev-Kolyachonok<br \/>Vilen-Powell <br \/>Edwards-Diotte<\/p>\n<p>Rittich<br \/>Malek<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-\">Atley Calvert leads the team in points and assists with nine points and six assists. Calvert, Tristan Broz, and Bill Zonnon are the active team leaders in goals with three. Broz and Harrison Brunicke lead in plus\/minus with a plus-six.<\/p>\n<p>Utica Comets<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lenni Hameenaho leads the Comets in points with six. Hameenaho, Gabe Klassen, and Marc McLaughlin are tied for the team lead in goals with three each. Topias Vilen leads in assists with four. Anton Silaev leads in plus\/minus with a plus-five.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton \u2013 October 30 at Utica Comets<br \/>Utica\u2013 November 1 vs. Hamilton Hammers<\/p>\n<p class=\"itr-plus-card__eyebrow has-x-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ITR+<\/p>\n<p>Go ad-free, and never miss a call-up<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-muted-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">No ads on the site or in the app, alerts for every call-up, send-down, signing and trade in the organizations and players you follow, and My Rink, your own hockey home page. $5 a month or $50 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside The Rink Gameday Graphic Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (4-3-1-0, 9 pts) at Utica Comets (4-2-0-0, 8 pts) Venue: NBT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,32689,129398,9121,83514,28015,1065,34808,129399,178,180,179,129400,5461,18694,5161],"class_list":["post-317647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ahl","tag-ahl-game-preview","tag-anton-silaev","tag-atley-calvert","tag-bill-zonnon","tag-gabe-klassen","tag-harrison-brunicke","tag-lenni-hameenaho","tag-marc-mclaughlin","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-topias-vilen","tag-tristan-broz","tag-utica-comets","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317647","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=317647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}