{"id":91393,"date":"2026-01-20T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91393\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:56:12","slug":"wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-get-the-better-of-springfield-thunderbirds-the-rink-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91393\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins get the better of Springfield Thunderbirds &#8211; The Rink Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins got away with a win on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 in their game against the Springfield Thunderbirds. The game finished 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton&#8217;s Gabe Klassen scored the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds took the lead halfway through the first period, with a goal from <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/473175\/simon-robertsson\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simon Robertsson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      .<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins tied the score 1-1 early in the second period when <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/332963\/valtteri-puustinen\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valtteri Puustinen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins made it 2-1 late when Chase Pietila found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds tied the score 2-2 early in the third period when <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/78295\/matthew-peca\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Peca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       beat the goalie.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Klassen took the lead with a goal six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up:<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds will face against the Toronto Marlies on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, with the Penguins set to challenge Belleville on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/sports\/pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more pro hockey coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scoring:<\/p>\n<p>AHL<\/p>\n<p>1st January 2026<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Springfield Thunderbirds<\/p>\n<p>2-3<\/p>\n<p>1st period:<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Thunderbirds, 0\u20131 (12:09) Simon Robertsson<\/p>\n<p>2nd period:<\/p>\n<p>1\u20131 (21:36) Valtteri Puustinen, 2\u20131 (35:41) Chase Pietila<\/p>\n<p>3rd period:<\/p>\n<p>2\u20132 (43:45) Matthew Peca, 3\u20132 (49:07) Gabe Klassen<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/the-rink-live-textbot\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The Rink Live Textbot\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/d4dc9a1\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1300x1300+310+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd0%2F91%2F14f9b4e549b9b570325c2183a9fe%2Ftrl-icon-author-page.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Automated articles produced by United Robots on behalf of The Rink Live.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins got away with a win on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 in their game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-91393","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\/91393","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=91393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}