{"id":82628,"date":"2026-01-09T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:56:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-charlotte-checkers-with-projected-lines-1-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82628\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Charlotte Checkers with Projected Lines 1\/9\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AHL-Game-Preview-Wilkes-Barre-Scranton-at-Charlotte-Checkers-with-Projected-Lines-1.9.26.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Charlotte Checkers with Projected Lines 1\/9\/26\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Brian Waksmunski-Inside the Rink&#13;<br \/>\nCheckers: Keegan Bezenah-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (22-9-1-2, 47 pts) at Charlotte Checkers (18-11-2-0 38 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Bojangles Coliseum<br \/>Date: 1\/9\/26<br \/>Time: 7:00 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>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Penguins got shut out in their last game, 6-0, against the Syracuse Crunch back on Saturday, January 3rd. They are now 3-1-0-1 in their last five games. The Penguins have scored an average of 2.6 goals per game and allowed an average of 3.8 goals per game. This will be the fifth meeting between these two teams, and the Penguins are 2-3-0-0 against Charlotte this season.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Checkers have dropped their last two games to the Cleveland Monsters, being outscored 9-4 in those games. Over their last five games, the Checkers have a 3-2-0-0 record.  Charlotte has scored an average of 3.2 goals per game and has allowed three goals per game over their last five games.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Koppanen-Broz-Puustinen<br \/>Harvey-Pinard-Huglen-Calvert<br \/>Imma-Ansons-Gallant<br \/>Graham-Renwick-Edwards<\/p>\n<p>Graves-Pietila<br \/>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Dumba-Harding<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Murashov<br \/>Larsson<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Foote-Pinho-Smith<br \/>Steeves-Chorske-Devine<br \/>St. Martin-Sawchyn-Vilmanis<br \/>Skoog-Mastrosimone-Mclinskey<\/p>\n<p>Vande Sompel-Livingstone<br \/>Alscher-Benning<br \/>Carrick-Powell<\/p>\n<p>Black<br \/>Germasimyuk<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/tristan-broz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Broz<\/a> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/owen-pickering\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Pickering<\/a> leads the team in plus\/minus with a +10. Atley Calvert has seven goals and nine assists for 16 total points for the Penguins as well this year.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Checkers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/wilmer-skoog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilmer Skoog<\/a>, Sandis Vilmanis, and Gracyn Sawchyn share the lead in points with 19 for the Checkers. Skoog has 11 goals on the season to lead Charlotte. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/gracyn-sawchyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gracyn Sawchyn<\/a> leads the team with 13 assists. Sawchyn and Mikulas Hovorka are tied for the team lead in plus\/minus with a +11.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: January 10 at Charlotte <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/charlotte-checkers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Checkers<\/a><br \/>Charlotte: January 10 vs. 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><\/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\/2026\/01\/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":"Penguins: Brian Waksmunski-Inside the Rink&#13; Checkers: Keegan Bezenah-Inside the Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (22-9-1-2, 47 pts) at Charlotte Checkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,9121,12445,32901,41605,5159,32904,178,180,179,5461,21953,5161,38257],"class_list":{"0":"post-82628","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-mikulas-hovorka","13":"tag-owen-pickering","14":"tag-sandis-vilmanis","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\/82628","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=82628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}