{"id":90833,"date":"2026-01-19T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90833\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:27:09","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-springfield-thunderbirds-with-projected-lines-1-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90833\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Springfield Thunderbirds with Projected Lines 1\/19\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-56.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins vs. Springfield Thunderbirds with Projected Lines 1\/19\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Brian Waksmunski &#8211; Inside The Rink&#13;<br \/>\nThunderbirds: Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (25-11-1-2, 53 pts) at Springfield Thunderbirds (13-18-4-2, 32 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: MassMutual Center<br \/>Date: Monday, January 19<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>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins New &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins split their weekend series against the Wolf Pack, dropping Friday\u2019s game 4-3 before bouncing back with a 4-1 win on Saturday. They\u2019re 3-3-0-0 in January, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing three goals per game. They won the only meeting against the Thunderbirds, scoring three goals. <\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds dropped their fourth straight on Saturday with a 4-1 loss to the Islanders. They also lost both games mid-week to the Checkers, both games finished 8-2 in favor of Charlotte. The Thunderbirds scored just one goal in their loss to the Penguins back on November 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Harvey Pinard-Broz-Koivunen<br \/>McDonough-Huglen-Puustinen<br \/>Klassen-Calvert-Gallant<br \/>Imama-Renwick-Urdahl<\/p>\n<p>Pietila-Dumba<br \/>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Breazeale-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Dube-Peca-Luff<br \/>Kaskimaki-McGing-Stancl <br \/>Robertsson-Dean-Pekarcik<br \/>Kessy-Strange-Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Rosen-Johannesson <br \/>Loof-Buchinger<br \/>Lindstein-Gaudet<\/p>\n<p>Romanov<br \/>Zherenko<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Broz\u00a0leads the Penguins in points with 28 and in goals with 14 on the year. Valtteri Puustinen leads the way with 18 assists this season.\u00a0Rookie Finn Harding\u00a0leads the team in plus\/minus with a +13. <\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds<\/p>\n<p>Matt Luff leads the Thunderbirds in points, goals, and assists with 31 points, 12 goals, and 19 assists. Quinton Burns, Kevin Wall, and Zach Dean lead Springfield in plus\/minus, with three of them being minus-one. <\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: January 21 vs. Belleville Senators<br \/>Springfield: January 23 vs. Toronto Marlies<\/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":"Penguins: Brian Waksmunski &#8211; Inside The Rink&#13; Thunderbirds: Brian Stone Sr. &#8211; Inside The Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (25-11-1-2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,21952],"class_list":{"0":"post-90833","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","11":"tag-springfield-thunderbirds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90833","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=90833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}