For the first time in his career, Hershey Bears forward Chris Bourque has been named American Hockey League most valuable player.
Bourque, 30, adds the Les Cunningham Award to his trophy case, which includes three Calder Cups, one Jack Butterfield Award for Calder Cup MVP, four AHL All-Star game appearances, and three AHL First-Team All-Star honors.
This may be the best giveaway the Hershey Bears will ever have. Saturday night will be Chris Bourque Garden Gnome night. Next to the Buck Showalter Garden Gnome, this is the greatest garden gnome we’ve ever seen.
“I mean I didn’t design it that’s for sure,” said Chris Bourque about it. “But it’s alright.”
The first round of 2016 Kraft Hockeyville voting is now open. To vote for Harrisburg’s Twin Ponds, you can vote one of two ways:
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Garrett Mitchell scored what arguably is the goal of the season for the Hershey Bears Friday night against Bridgeport. On a shorthanded breakout, Mitchell went down the near boards, threw a puck through his legs, just to skate right in front of the goalie and score. You have to see this.
The Hershey Bears and Washington Capitals have announced defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler has exercised his option to return to Switzerland.
The Switzerland native played six games for Hershey, scoring his first AHL point in his first AHL game against Lehigh Valley in Hershey’s 8-0 win on March 23.
Siegenthaler, 18, was drafted by Washington in 2015, 57th overall in the second round. Bears PR director Scott Stuccio said Siegenthaler is expected to return in July for Capitals developmental camp.
With all of the 2015-16 Hershey Bears emojis completed, we now move on to the Bears coaching staff. It’s Troy Mann, Bryan Helmer, Ryan Murphy, and Scott Murray‘s turn to get emoji-fied.
We continue emoji week as we feature two lines worth of Bears forwards. Carter Camper, Zach Sill, Dustin Gazley, Ryan Bourque, Sean Collins, and Paul Carey‘s emojis are below the jump.
And if you’ve missed any of our earlier sets, check out the bottom of the page to see all of the players!
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is emoji week here at Chocolate Hockey! We will be finishing off our 2015-16 Hershey Bears emoji set with each player being featured as an emoji all this week. We kick it off with the rest of the 2015-16 Hershey Bears defensemen.
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has arrived. Jakub Vrana v. Jonas Siegenthaler. FIFA 16. Two of the biggest prospects in the Washington Capitals organization take each other on in one of the most popular videos games ever made.
If you need your hockey fix with the Hershey Bears are on the road this weekend, head on over to Klick Lewis Arena in Palmyra to watch the Fifth Annual Broomball for Autism Awareness Sunday, March 13th at 10 am! Local media personalities will be participating in this event, helping raise money for the Autism Society Greater Harrisburg.
For more information on this event, we hand it over to Brian Whitman: