{"id":94702,"date":"2026-01-23T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:43:08","slug":"ahl-game-preview-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins-at-hershey-bears-with-projected-lines-1-23-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94702\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Hershey Bears with Projected Lines 1\/23\/26"},"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-Hershey-Bears-with-Projected-Lines-1.23.26.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"AHL Game Preview: Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins at Hershey Bears with Projected Lines 1\/23\/26\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink&#13;<br \/>\nBears: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (26-11-2-2, 56 pts) at Hershey Bears (18-14-4-1, 41 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Giant Center<br \/>Date: 1\/23\/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 suffered a 3-2 overtime loss against the Belleville Senators on Wednesday night. The Penguins have a 5-2-1-0 record this January. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton has scored an average of 2.75 goals and has allowed 288 goals per game this month. The Penguins have a 4-1-0-0 record against the Bears this season.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Bears dropped their last game in overtime, 5-4, against the Hartford Wolf Pack. They\u2019re 4-0-3-1 in January, collecting 11 points this month. The Bears are averaging 3.5 goals per game while allowing 3.25. Hershey has dropped three straight to the Penguins and has a 1-4-0-0 record this year against them.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">McGroarty-Klassen-Koivunen<br \/>Harvey-Pinard-Huglen-Hayes<br \/>McDonough-Koppanen-Calvert<br \/>Imama-Renwick-Gallant<\/p>\n<p>Pietila-Dumba<br \/>Pickering-Kemp<br \/>Breazeale-Harding<\/p>\n<p>Murashov<br \/>Blomqvist<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Cristall-Protas-Trineyev<br \/>Suzdalev-Rybinski-Leason<br \/>Strome-Cruikshank-Clarke<br \/>Smith                 -Nachbaur<\/p>\n<p>McDonald-Chesley<br \/>Schueneman-Allen<br \/>Gucciardi-Belpedio<br \/>Muggli<\/p>\n<p>Gibson<br \/>Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Tristan Broz\u00a0leads the Penguins in points with 28 and in goals with 14 on the year. Atley Calvert leads the way with 15 assists this season.\u00a0Finn Harding\u00a0leads the team in plus\/minus as a rookie with a +15.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"> Andrew Cristall leads the Hershey Bears as a rookie in points and assists with 31 points and 24 assists, and All-Star Ilya Protas leads in goals with 15. Louie Belpedio is third on the team in points this year with 21. He has six goals and 15 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton: January 24 vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/charlotte-checkers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Checkers<\/a><br \/>Hershey: January 44 at <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/ahl\/ahl-eastern-conference\/ahl-atlantic-division\/lehigh-valley-phantoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley Phantoms<\/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\/1769182988_294_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 Stone Sr-Inside the Rink&#13; Bears: Brian Stone Sr-Inside the Rink Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (26-11-2-2, 56 pts) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5155,26869,9121,44349,26871,5158,26872,26873,178,180,179,5461,5161],"class_list":["post-94702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ahl","tag-andrew-cristall","tag-atley-calvert","tag-finn-harding","tag-hershey-bears","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-protas","tag-louie-belpedio","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-tristan-broz","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94702","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=94702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}