The final lineup for the end of the Wilkes-Barre Penguins (AHL) season in 2022-23 was pretty sad listing of players. It was a fitting ending for the last place WB/S team, a once proud franchise that found itself sinking to unimaginable levels near the bottom of the whole AHL.
Even before Kyle Dubas was hired, Mike Sullivan spoke early in the off-season about theorganization needing to make Wilkes a focus once again and beef up the organization by improving things for their AHL affiliate.
It only takes looking at the lines for the AHL Penguins’ debut game on Friday night against the Charlotte Checkers to see how far they’ve come.