{"id":66877,"date":"2025-12-21T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:53:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-hershey-bears-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-with-projected-lines-12-21-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66877\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Hershey Bears at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/21\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AHL-Game-Preview-Hershey-Bears-at-Wilkes-Barre.Scranton-Penguins-with-Projected-Lines-12.21.25.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Hershey Bears at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/21\/25\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: Brian Waksmunski-Inside the Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears (14-10-1-0, 29 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (20-7-1-1, 42 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza<br \/>Date: 12\/21\/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>Hershey Bears News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Hershey Bears have a 3-3-0-0 record in December after yesterday\u2019s win over the Islanders 4-1. This will be the fourth meeting between the Bears and Penguins this season. Hershey has a 1-2-0-0 record so far this year when taking on Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins lost in a shootout yesterday to the Utica Comets 3-2, leaving them with a 5-2-0-1 record for December. The Penguins have a 2-1-0-0 record against Hershey this year. Over the last five seasons, the Penguins have a 20-23-6-2 record against the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Cristall-Protas-Clarke<br \/>Leason-Rybinski-Trineyev<br \/>Funk-Smallman-Mateiko<br \/>Smith-Cruikshank-Bitten<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Ness-Chesley<br \/>Schueneman-Allen<br \/>McDonald-Belpedio<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson<br \/>Gibson<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>McDonough-Broz-Hayes<br \/>Harvey-Pinard-Klassen-Puustinen<br \/>Ansons-Koppanen-Calvert<br \/>Imama-Renwick-Gallant<\/p>\n<p>Kemp-Dumba<br \/>Pickering-Pietila<br \/>Brickey-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Protas leads the Hershey Bears in points with 23, in goals with 12, and in plus\/minus with a +9 this year. Andrew Cristall leads the Hershey Bears in assists with 17. Bogdan Trineyev, in 17 games this year for the Hershey Bears, has six goals and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p>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. Avery Hayes has a solid season going for the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with nine goals and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Hershey: December 27 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 27 vs. Hershey <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/hershey-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bears<\/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\/1766332389_877_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":"(Photo by: Brian Waksmunski-Inside the Rink) Hershey Bears (14-10-1-0, 29 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (20-7-1-1, 42 pts) Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,30206,26869,34806,26870,26871,26872,32903,178,180,179,5461,21953,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-66877","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-andrew-cristall","11":"tag-avery-hayes","12":"tag-bogdan-trineyev","13":"tag-hershey-bears","14":"tag-ilya-protas","15":"tag-phil-tomasino","16":"tag-scranton","17":"tag-scranton-headlines","18":"tag-scranton-news","19":"tag-tristan-broz","20":"tag-valtteri-puustinen","21":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877","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=66877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}