{"id":60804,"date":"2025-12-14T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:43:07","slug":"ahl-game-preview-charlotte-checkers-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-with-projected-lines-12-14-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60804\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Charlotte Checkers at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/14\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AHL-Game-Preview-Charlotte-Checkers-at-Wilkes-Barre.Scranton-Penguins-with-Projected-Lines-12.14.25..webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Charlotte Checkers at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/14\/25\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Checkers: Keegan Bezenah-Inside the Rink&#13;<br \/>\nPenguins: Shawn Block-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers (12-8-2-0, 26 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (19-5-1-0, 39 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza<br \/>Date: 12\/14\/25<br \/>Time: 3:05 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>Charlotte Checkers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte has a 2-3-0-0 record after their 4-0 loss to Hershey yesterday. Tonight\u2019s game will be the third meeting between the Checkers and Penguins this season. Last season, the Checkers had a 5-3-0-0 record against the Penguins. Charlotte has averaged 2.4 goals per game this month, while giving up an average of 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins have a four-game winning streak after beating the Providence Bruins 2-1 in overtime yesterday. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton had a 3-4-1-0 record against Charlotte last year in eight meetings. The Penguins have averaged 3.75 goals per game during the four-game win streak and have allowed one goal per game.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Steeves-Pinho-Gaber<br \/>Vilmanis-Sawchyn-Devine<br \/>St. Martins-Chorske-Foote<br \/>Skoog-Mastrosimone-McLinskey<\/p>\n<p>Bjornfot-Livingstone<br \/>Carrick-Jansson<br \/>Alscher-Benning<\/p>\n<p>Black<br \/>Domingue<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>McDonough-Broz-Hayes<br \/>Tomasino-Klassen-Puustinen<br \/>Calvert-Koppanen-Dufour<br \/>Imama-Ansons-Gallant<\/p>\n<p>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Laatsch-Pietila<br \/>Aho-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Larsson<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers<\/p>\n<p>Ben Steeves leads Charlotte in points with 15 and in goals with nine. Gracyn Sawchyn leads the Checkers with ten assists this year. Sandis Vilmanis leads the Checker in the plus\/minus category with a +8. Jack Devine has six goals and seven assists for a total of 13 points for Charlotte in 16 games played this year.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Broz leads the Penguins in points with 17 and in goals with nine on the active roster. Valtteri Puustinen leads the way with ten assists this season. Phil Tomasino and Owen Pickering are tied for the team lead in plus\/minus with a +11. Aidan McDonough has a solid season, starting with six goals and ten assists for the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte: December 16 at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a><br \/>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: December 16 vs. Charlotte <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/charlotte-checkers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Checkers<\/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\/2025\/12\/1765726987_353_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b\"  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":"Checkers: Keegan Bezenah-Inside the Rink&#13; Penguins: Shawn Block-Inside the Rink Charlotte Checkers (12-8-2-0, 26 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,30206,32900,12445,32901,32902,5159,32903,32904,178,180,179,5461,13500,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-60804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-aidan-mcdonough","10":"tag-ben-steeves","11":"tag-charlotte-checkers","12":"tag-gracyn-sawchyn","13":"tag-jack-devine","14":"tag-owen-pickering","15":"tag-phil-tomasino","16":"tag-sandis-vilmanis","17":"tag-scranton","18":"tag-scranton-headlines","19":"tag-scranton-news","20":"tag-tristan-broz","21":"tag-valteri-puustinen","22":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60804","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=60804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}