{"id":65342,"date":"2025-12-19T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:45:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-utica-comets-with-projected-lines-12-19-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65342\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Utica Comets with Projected Lines 12\/19\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AHL<\/p>\n

Penguins:Brian Stone Jr-Inside the Rink
\nComets:Shawn Block- Inside the Rink<\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (19-7-1-0, 39 pts) at Utica Comets (6-14-3-1, 16 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: Adirondack Bank Center
Date: 12\/19\/25
Time: 7:00 PM EST
TV: FLO Sports<\/p>\n

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

Utica Comets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Comets have a 4-2-1-0 after their last game against Rochester on Wednesday night, which they won 3-2. This will be the third meeting between the Penguins this season. In the previous meetings, the Comets have a 1-1-0-0 record. The Comets have scored an average of 2.86 goals per game and conceded an average of 2.29 goals per game this month.<\/p>\n

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

The Penguins lost their last two games, both against the Checkers. They now have a 4-2-0-0 record in December. The Penguins are averaging three goals per game and have allowed two goals per game this month. In the last two meetings, the Penguins have a 1-1-0-0 record against Utica.<\/p>\n

Utica Comets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Gruden-Criscuolo-Squires
Lachance-Melovsky-Hameenaho
Filmon-Schmelzer-Bordeleau
Bertuzzi-Malone-Wendt<\/p>\n

Casey-Strand
Edwards-Diotte
Vilen-Osipov<\/p>\n

Daws
Malek<\/p>\n

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

McDonough-Broz-Hayes
Tomasino-Klassen-Puustinen
RHP-Koppanen-Dufour
Imama-Ansons-Calvert<\/p>\n

Pickering-Dumba
Laatsch-Kemp
Pietila-Harding<\/p>\n

Blomqvist
Murashov<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Utica<\/p>\n

Mike Hardman and Seamus Casey are tied for the lead in points with ten on the active roster for the Comets. Lenni Hameenaho leads Utica with six goals this year. Seamus Casey leads the way with nine assists this year. Dmitry Osipov leads the team in plus\/minus with a +4. Matyas Melovsky has a solid season going for the Comets with three goals and six assists.<\/p>\n

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

Tristan Broz leads the Penguins in points with 17 and in goals with nine on the year. Valtteri Puustinen and Aidan McDonough lead the way with ten assists this season. Phil Tomasino leads the team in plus\/minus with a +11. Avery Hayes has had a productive start to his season with eight goals and seven assists for the Penguins.<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Utica: December 20 vs. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/a>
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: December 20 at Utica Comets<\/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":"Penguins:Brian Stone Jr-Inside the Rink Comets:Shawn Block- Inside the Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (19-7-1-0, 39 pts) at Utica Comets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,30206,34806,34807,34808,34809,34810,32903,178,180,179,34811,5461,18694,21953,5161],"class_list":["post-65342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ahl","tag-aidan-mcdonough","tag-avery-hayes","tag-dmitry-osipov","tag-lenni-hameenaho","tag-matyas-melovsky","tag-mike-hardman","tag-phil-tomasino","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-seamus-casey","tag-tristan-broz","tag-utica-comets","tag-valtteri-puustinen","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65342","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=65342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}