{"id":73905,"date":"2025-12-30T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73905\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:02:08","slug":"ahl-game-preview-charlotte-checkers-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-with-projected-lines-12-30-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73905\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Charlotte Checkers at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/30\/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-12.30.25..jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Charlotte Checkers at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins with Projected Lines 12\/30\/25\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Checkers: Keegan Bezenah-Inside the Rink&#13;<br \/>\nPenguins: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers (17-9-2-0, 36 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (22-7-1-2, 47 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza<br \/>Date: 12\/30\/25<br \/>Time: 7:05 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 id=\"h-\">The Checkers beat the Lehigh Valley Phantoms Monday, 3-2 in overtime,  to improve to 7-4-0-0 in December. Charlotte is averaging 2.82 goals per game while allowing 2.64 goals per game. Charlotte has a 2-1-1-0 record against the Penguins this season, but has won the last two meetings, outscoring the Penguins 8-3 in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins dropped their last game Sunday in a shootout 4-3 to the Phantoms, giving them a 7-2-0-2 record for December. The Penguins are scoring an average of 3.18 goals per game and have allowed an average of 2.18 goals per game this month. Last season, the Penguins had a 3-4-1-0 record against Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Foote-Pinho-Smith<br \/>Skoog-Sawchyn-Devine<br \/>Vilmanis-Chorske-Steeves<br \/>St. Martin-Mastrosimone-McAllister<\/p>\n<p>Bjornfot-Hovorka<br \/>Carrick-Benning<br \/>Alscher-Jansson<\/p>\n<p>Germasimyuk<br \/>Domingue<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>McDonough-Broz-Tomasino<br \/>Harvey-Pinard-Klassen-Puustinen<br \/>Ansons-Koppanen-Calvert<br \/>Imama-Renwick-Gallant<\/p>\n<p>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Breazeale-Pietila<br \/>Budnick-Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Wilmer Skoog, Gracyn Sawchyn, and Jack Devine share the lead in points with 18 for the Checkers. Skoog has ten goals on the season to lead Charlotte. Gracyn Sawchyn leads the team with 12 assists and has a plus\/minus this season of +13. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Broz leads the Penguins in points with 20 and in goals with ten on the year. Valtteri Puustinen leads the way with 13 assists this season. Phil Tomasino and Rafael Harvey-Pinard lead the team in plus\/minus with a +12. Atley Calvert has seven goals and eight assists for 15 total points for the Penguins as well this year.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte: January 3 at <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-north-division\/cleveland-monsters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Monsters<\/a><br \/>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: January 3 at <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-north-division\/syracuse-crunch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse Crunch<\/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\/1767117728_899_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b.jpeg\"  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: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink Charlotte Checkers (17-9-2-0, 36 pts) at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,9121,12445,32901,32902,32903,28016,178,180,179,5461,21953,5161,38257],"class_list":{"0":"post-73905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-atley-calvert","10":"tag-charlotte-checkers","11":"tag-gracyn-sawchyn","12":"tag-jack-devine","13":"tag-phil-tomasino","14":"tag-rafael-harvey-pinard","15":"tag-scranton","16":"tag-scranton-headlines","17":"tag-scranton-news","18":"tag-tristan-broz","19":"tag-valtteri-puustinen","20":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins","21":"tag-wilmer-skoog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905","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=73905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}