Pheonix Copley and Jordan Binnington were teammates in Chicago both as prospects of the St. Louis Blues. Saturday night the two found themselves throwing punches at each other in a goalie fight.
Copley, a goalie for the Hershey Bears, fought Binnington of the Providence Bruins after a hit from behind on Kenny Agostino from Bears captain Garrett Mitchell.
Since Connor Hobbs’ injury in early November, the rookie defenseman has had a different role with the Bears during his recovery: statistician.
“Reid Cashman, our d-coach, has me doing specific stats on defensemen and stuff like that up there [in the press box,]” Hobbs said Thursday. “It keeps me into the game so I’m not just screwing around on my phone or whatever. It’s good. It’s been really good, and I’ve taken a lot away actually from the last games watching.”
Last week, we visited Giant Center to try something different. We asked four members of the Hershey Bears to try a holiday treat. That treat was the Chocolate Candy Spaghetti seen in the Will Ferrell movie ‘Elf’.
Mason Mitchell, Lucas Johansen, Colby Williams, and Connor Hobbs each tried a small plate of the pasta, which featured spaghetti noodles, chocolate nonpareils, Reese’s Pieces (note: we know this is not accurate to the movie, but it’s the only thing Hershey’s offers that’s similar,) chocolate syrup, caramel sauce, maple syrup, mini marshmallows, and fudge pop tarts.
Thursday afternoon the Hershey Bears released the first images of their 2018 Outdoor Classic uniforms. The white sweaters will be worn against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on January 20.
The uniforms feature HERSHEY across the chest. Hershey last wore cross chest wordmark in 2009, but the design features a similar to the 1969 uniforms the Bears wore to win the Calder Cup.
Wednesday night during the Hershey Bears game, the Bears Better Halves will be holding their yearly Christmas Ornament sale along with four “Favorite Things” baskets up for sale.
The four baskets feature items from Chris Bourque and Zach Sill, Aaron Ness and Travis Boyd, Dustin Gazley and Garrett Mitchell, and Hubert Labrie and Pheonix Copley.
During the first intermission, Chris Bourque stepped onto the ice to be the Fairview Golf Course Player Interview with Jim Jones. But unlike other players, Bourque stuck around after his chat with Jonesy to watch the intermission Youth On Ice game. That’s because his son, Kingston, was one of the members of the Bears Bites team playing after the interview.
In 68 games last season with the Kelowna Rockets, defenseman Lucas Johansen had six goals. In only 25 games for the Hershey Bears, Johansen has five.
So where has this scoring touch come from this season? Possibly a little bit of studying of a former Bears defenseman, Christian Djoos.
Sunday night, the Hershey Bears set a new team record with 25,017 stuffed animals thrown onto Giant Center ice.
Liam O’Brien scored the goal midway through the second period to cut Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s lead to 2-1.
Sunday night in Hershey, Pennsylvania the American Hockey League affiliate of the Washington Capitals, the Hershey Bears, held their annual Teddy Bear Toss night.
As the Hershey Bears skated at Giant Center all this past week, some familiar faces returned to the ice. Both Garrett Mitchell and John Albert have been missing from the Bears line-up with injuries
“For me it was just looking out long term,” said Mitchell of his injury. “If it was three, four, or five months from now it probably wouldn’t even have been something. We wanted to take some precaution.
“I just didn’t want to push too hard and then you know down the road you’re dealing with something that lingers kind of all season.”
