{"id":86632,"date":"2026-01-14T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:02:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-at-providence-bruins-with-projected-lines-1-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86632\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton at Providence Bruins with Projected Lines 1\/14\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-53.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton at Providence Bruins with Projected Lines 1\/14\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (23-10-1-2, 49 pts)\u00a0at Providence Bruins (25-7-1-0, 51 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Amica Mutual Pavilion<br \/>Date: Wednesday, January 14<br \/>Time: 7:05 pm EST<br \/>TV:\u00a0FLO Sports\u00a0<\/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=\"block-4d7148f5-cc16-46f5-bea9-8eefa839d7da\">The Penguins split their weekend series, with the Checkers winning Friday\u2019s game 5-1 before dropping Saturday\u2019s game by the same score. They\u2019re 1-2-0-0 in January, averaging four goals per game while allowing two goals per game. They\u2019re 2-1-0-0 against the Bruins this season, averaging 1.3 goals per game.<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Providence Bruins News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-lehigh-valley-phantoms-news-amp-notes\">The Bruins had three games over the weekend, winning Friday\u2019s game <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/ahl-providence-responds-from-a-slow-start-to-beat-bridgeport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">4-1 over the Islanders<\/a>, then losing on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/ahl-game-recap-providence-offense-stalls-in-loss-to-hartford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">5-1 to the Wolf Pack<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/ahl-game-recap-providence-bounces-back-with-win-over-phantoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bouncing<\/a> back Sunday with a 4-2 win over the Phantoms. They\u2019re 4-1-0-0 in 2026, averaging three goals per game while allowing two goals per game. They\u2019re 1-1-1-0 against Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton this season, averaging 1.3 goals per game.<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Puustinen-Huglen-Koivunen<br \/>Klassen-Broz-Calvert<br \/>Urdahl-Koppanen-Gallant<br \/>Imama-Renwick-Edwards<\/p>\n<p>Graves-Pietila<br \/>Pickering-Dumba<br \/>Breazeale-Kemp<\/p>\n<p>Blomqvist<br \/>Murashov<\/p>\n<p>Providence Bruins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Tufte-Brown-Merkulov<br \/>Blumel-Poitras-Lysell<br \/>Abate-Locmelis-Duran<br \/>Bancroft-Farinacci-Harrison<\/p>\n<p>Callahan-Soderstrom<br \/>Wolanin-Sweezey<br \/>Brunet-Gallagher<\/p>\n<p>DiPietro<br \/>Zajicek<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Broz\u00a0leads the Penguins in points with 24 and in goals with 11 on the year. Valtteri Puustinen leads the way with 15 assists this season.\u00a0Owen Pickering\u00a0leads the team in plus\/minus with a +11. <\/p>\n<p>Providence Bruins<\/p>\n<p>Captain Patrick Brown leads the Bruins and the league in points with 35. He also leads Providence in , assists, and plus\/minus, with 22 assists and is a +24. Brown, Georgii Merkulov, Dans Locmelis, and Riley Tufte lead in goals with 13 each.<\/p>\n<p>Next game:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton:\u00a0January 16 vs. Bridgeport Islanders<br \/>Providence\u00a0\u2013 January 17 vs. Cleveland Monsters<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (23-10-1-2, 49 pts)\u00a0at Providence Bruins (25-7-1-0, 51 pts) Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[43334,13215,5159,13218,13219,13220,178,180,179,5461,21953,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-86632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-dans-locmelis","9":"tag-georgii-merkulov","10":"tag-owen-pickering","11":"tag-patrick-brown","12":"tag-providence-bruins","13":"tag-riley-tufte","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-tristan-broz","18":"tag-valtteri-puustinen","19":"tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86632","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=86632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}