Ten years ago tonight, the Hershey Bears won their ninth Calder Cup – a team lead by Bruce Boudreau. One of the alternate captains on that team was Graham Mink, who went on to win another Cup with the Bears in 2009.
During a Bears game in November, Mink visited Hershey and we caught up with him.
Monday afternoon the 2015-16 Hershey Bears were together for the last time, cleaning out their lockers after a disappointing end to the season. Below the jump are thoughts and reaction from Bears head coach Troy Mann, captain Garrett Mitchell, alternate captain Zach Sill, and goalie Justin Peters.
Contract status for the 2016-17 Season for players who spent time in Hershey in the 2015-16 season:
Game 7’s for a rookie are tough enough. 10:57 into overtime of Game 7 against the Bears’ archrival Wilke-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Travis Boyd made a memory he will never forget. Cycling in the far corner with Liam O’Brien, Boyd from behind the net makes a move out front and from a tough angle and roofs the puck past the Pens netminder Casey DeSmith to send the Hershey Bears to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Former Hershey Bears Eric Fehr and Steve Oleksy have won the Stanely Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Fehr was a member of the 2005-06 Calder Cup team and is the 128th player in history to win the Stanley Cup and…
HERSHEY, PA – Madison Bowey puts his stick on his head after the Hershey Bears fell in Game Two of the Calder Cup Finals Friday night. (Kyle Mace / Chocolate Hockey)
Outplaying a team doesn’t always mean you will win. That’s what happened Friday night in Chocolate Town. The Hershey Bears very much outplayed the Lake Erie Monsters on in Game Two of the 2016 Calder Cup Finals, but it just wasn’t their night.
The Hershey Bears and abc27 announced Thursday afternoon they will be televising all of the Hershey Bears away games in the 2016 Calder Cup Finals from Cleveland. Games Three and Four will be on abc27’s digital channel, 27.3, and Game Five will be on abc27’s main channel in high definition.
Press release below the jump:
HERSHEY, PA – Daniel Zarr celebrates his third period goal in Lake Erie’s 4-1 win in Game One of the Calder Cup Finals. (Kyle Mace / Chocolate Hockey)
Wednesday night marked the twenty-third time in Hershey Bears history the Calder Cup Finals have come to visit Chocolate Town, USA. The Bears faced off against a team from Cleveland for the first time since 1954, looking to claim the first game of the 2016 Calder Cup Finals.
From the time the Hershey Bears stepped off the bus at Giant Center Monday morning at exactly 12:00 am after beating the Toronto Marlies in the Eastern Conference Finals to puck drop of Game One of the 2016 Calder Cup Finals, 67 hours will have passed. That’s the quickest turnaround the Bears have had these playoffs, only a few hours less than a 72 hours turnaround they had against Wilkes-Barre in the second round.
But despite the short turnaround, the Bears are sticking to their game plan against Lake Erie. “Our message tomorrow morning is going to be ‘Play to our identity,'” Bears head coach Troy Mann said Monday morning at Bears practice.
Toronto, Canada – Bears players mob Justin Peters after Hershey clinched the Eastern Conference Title in Game 5 Sunday night. (Kyle Mace / Chocolate Hockey)
It was the result nobody expected (except me). The Hershey Bears are heading back to the Calder Cup finals for the first time since 2010 and beat the best team during the regular season in the process. After taking a 3-0 series lead, the Bears lost to Toronto in game four on Friday night, 5-0. But Sunday afternoon was the Bears day, as they pulled out a 3-2 victory over the Marlies, giving them the AHL’s Eastern Conference Title.
