{"id":66313,"date":"2025-12-20T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66313\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:07:08","slug":"ahl-game-preview-utica-comets-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-with-projected-lines-12-20-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66313\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Utica Comets at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/20\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AHL<\/p>\n

Comets: Brett Ballachino-Inside the Rink
\nPenguins: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n

Utica Comets (6-15-3-1, 16 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (20-7-1-0, 41 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza
Date: 12\/20\/25
Time: 6:05 PM EST
TV: FLO Sports<\/p>\n

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

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

The Comets have a 4-3-1-0 after their last game against the Penguins on Friday night, which they lost 4-2. In the previous meetings, the Comets have a 1-2-0-0 record. The Comets have scored an average of 2.75 goals per game and conceded an average of 2.50 goals per game this month.<\/p>\n

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

The Penguins beat the Comets Friday night 4-2 to snap their two-game slide. They now have a 5-2-0-0 record for the month of December. The Penguins are averaging 3.14 goals per game and have allowed two goals per game this month. <\/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

Malek
Daws<\/p>\n

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

McDonough-Broz-Hayes
Harvey-Pinard-Tomasino-Puustinen
Klassen-Koppanen-Calvert
Imama-Renwick-Gallant<\/p>\n

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

Blomqvist
Murashov<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Utica Comets<\/p>\n

Lenni Hameenaho leads in points with 11 and goals with six on the active roster for the Comets. Seamus Casey leads the way with ten assists this year. Dmitry Osipov leads the team in plus\/minus with a +5. Jonathan Gruden has been solid for the Comets with four goals and four assists on the year.<\/p>\n

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

Tristan Broz leads the Penguins in points with 18 and in goals with ten 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. Atley Calvert is off to a decent start for the Penguins with seven goals and six assists.<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Utica: December 27 vs. Toronto Marlies<\/a>
Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: December 21 vs. Hershey Bears<\/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":"Comets: Brett Ballachino-Inside the Rink Penguins: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink Utica Comets (6-15-3-1, 16 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,30206,9121,34807,35242,34808,32903,178,180,179,34811,5461,18694,21953,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-66313","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-atley-calvert","11":"tag-dmitry-osipov","12":"tag-jonathan-gruden","13":"tag-lenni-hameenaho","14":"tag-phil-tomasino","15":"tag-scranton","16":"tag-scranton-headlines","17":"tag-scranton-news","18":"tag-seamus-casey","19":"tag-tristan-broz","20":"tag-utica-comets","21":"tag-valtteri-puustinen","22":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66313","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=66313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}