The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins finished the 2014-15 AHL regular season with a record of 45-24-7 under coach John Hynes, good for 97 points and second place in the East Division.
Rookie goalie Matt Murray led the league with 12 shutouts, a microscopic 1.58 goals-against average, and a sparkling .941 save percentage. Fellow rookie Conor Sheary topped the Baby Pens with 45 points (20+25), while Jayson Megna paced the attack with 26 goals.
Taylor Chorney (plus-26) and defense partner Brian Dumoulin (plus-25) placed sixth and seventh in the AHL in plus/minus. Dumoulin led all Baby Pens defensemen with 33 points.
Heavyweight Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond was third in the league in penalty minutes (241); Bobby Farnham fourth (226).
| SCORING | ||||||||||||||
| Player | Age | Pos | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | +/- | ||||||
| Conor Sheary | 22 | LW | 58 | 20 | 25 | 45 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Andrew Ebbett | 31 | C | 44 | 17 | 27 | 44 | 12 | 19 | ||||||
| Tom Kostopoulos | 35 | RW | 72 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 62 | 3 | ||||||
| Scott Wilson | 22 | LW | 55 | 19 | 22 | 41 | 30 | 14 | ||||||
| Jayson Megna | 24 | C | 63 | 26 | 13 | 39 | 40 | 18 | ||||||
| Brian Dumoulin | 22 | D | 62 | 4 | 29 | 33 | 18 | 25 | ||||||
| Carter Rowney | 24 | RW | 63 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 31 | 14 | ||||||
| Tom Kuhnhackl | 22 | RW | 72 | 12 | 18 | 30 | 19 | 10 | ||||||
| Bryan Rust | 22 | RW | 45 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 14 | 6 | ||||||
| Dominik Uher | 21 | C | 72 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 60 | 11 | ||||||
| Derrick Pouliot | 20 | D | 31 | 7 | 17 | 24 | 20 | 2 | ||||||
| Jean-Sebastien Dea | 20 | C | 43 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 16 | 1 | ||||||
| Nick Drazenovic | 27 | C | 25 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Taylor Chorney | 27 | D | 62 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 42 | 26 | ||||||
| Bobby Farnham | 25 | LW | 62 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 226 | 3 | ||||||
| Matia Marcantuoni | 20 | C | 59 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 4 | ||||||
| Josh Archibald | 21 | RW | 45 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 24 | -1 | ||||||
| Scott Harrington | 21 | D | 48 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 19 | ||||||
| Nicholas D’Agostino | 24 | D | 50 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | ||||||
| Bobby Goers | 28 | D | 51 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 3 | ||||||
| Adam Payerl | 23 | C | 41 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 76 | 1 | ||||||
| Reid McNeill | 22 | D | 54 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 121 | 6 | ||||||
| Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond | 29 | RW | 55 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 241 | 1 | ||||||
| Alex Boak | 24 | D | 31 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 80 | 5 | ||||||
| Danny Syvret | 29 | D | 17 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | ||||||
| Beau Bennett | 22 | RW | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Philip Samuelsson | 23 | D | 22 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20 | -3 | ||||||
| Sean Escobedo | 24 | D | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Sahir Gill | 22 | LW | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Kasperi Kapanen | 18 | RW | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -1 | ||||||
| Zack Torquato | 25 | C | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Eric Hartzell | 25 | G | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Clark Seymour | 21 | D | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | -1 | ||||||
| Steve Shamanski | 25 | D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Jeff Zatkoff | 27 | G | 37 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Paul Cianfrini | 25 | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | ||||||
| Patrick McGrath | 21 | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -2 | ||||||
| Matt Murray | 20 | G | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| Harrison Ruopp | 21 | D | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||||||
| Anton Zlobin | 21 | LW | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | ||||||
| GOALTENDING | ||||||||||||||
| Player | Age | Pos | GP | MIN | GA | SH | AVE | WLOT | ||||||
| Matt Murray | 20 | G | 40 | 2321 | 61 | 12 | 1.58 | 25-10-1 | ||||||
| Jeff Zatkoff | 27 | G | 37 | 2155 | 88 | 3 | 2.45 | 18-14-3 | ||||||
| Eric Hartzell | 25 | G | 2 | 123 | 6 | 0 | 2.92 | 2-0-0 | ||||||
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