The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins defeated the Hershey Bears by a 5-2 final score on Dec. 27. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton simply dominated during the first period, as they scored all five of their goals in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Gabe Klassen was a big reason for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton’s win against the Bears, as he put together a very strong performance for the AHL squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Klassen scored two goals for Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton during the first period, with his first one being the eventual game-winning goal. His goals were also close together, as he scored at the 10:58 mark of the first period and then at the 14:10 mark of the first period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With this strong performance against the Bears, Klassen now has five goals, three assists, and 12 points in 23 games so far this season with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. Overall, the 22-year-old forward is showing promise during his first full AHL season, and he will now be aiming to build on it from here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Klassen demonstrated solid offensive upside in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Portland Winterhawks. This was especially the case during his final season with the WHL club in 2023-24, as he posted 35 goals, 71 assists, and 106 points in 67 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins defeated the Hershey Bears by a 5-2 final score on Dec. 27. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton simply dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-72159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72159","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=72159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}