Hershey Bears Autograph Night – 2012

Editor note: Unfortunately in our site’s transfer, we lost these images. The current images you are seeing are photos from the 2016 autograph night. We will transfer the 2012 autograph night images back to our site as soon as we find them. Our apologies to those looking for these images from 2012.


Braden Holtby poses for a photo during autograph night at Giant Center (Kyle Mace – Sweetest Hockey on Earth)

Every year, Hershey hold an autograph night for fans to meet their favorite Bear and get their signature. This year, it was in October, unlike last year’s when it was in April. Despite the date change, Bears fans still came out in droves to meet their favorite players. Below the jump, check out some of my photos from the night!

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Weekend Photo Recap: Opening Night Edition

Tomas Kundratek

Tomas Kundratek misses a chance at a wide open Americans’ net. (All photos courtesy of Tim Stough)

New to SHOE this season will be a “weekend in photos” post. Both Kyle and myself are credentialed to shoot Bears games in different areas of Giant Center. And as you might of imagined, we take a lot of pics. So many in fact that they can’t all fit into our game recaps. So instead of keeping these pictures on our cutting room floor, we’ll post the most notable ones in this weekly segment.

This week, I supply all of the snapshots, and they come from the Bears home opener on Saturday night. Take a look and make sure to click on the pics to enlarge them.

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Hershey Bears Release New Ad Featuring Philipp Grubauer

New Hershey Bears promotional ad released today on the Bears Facebook page

Earlier today the Hershey Bears released a new promotional ad. The photo features current Bears goalie, Philipp Grubauer and former Bears goalie, Claude Defour (which we figured out after a tip from our Facebook page from friend of the blog, Kim Payne,) in the same pose. The photos have been merged to make the photo look crazy awesome and give it the aspect of both goalies as one.

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Garrett Mitchell Registers Gordie Howe Hat Trick in Bears 8-7 Loss to Rochester

Photo credit: Kyle Mace

Hershey Bears forward Garrett Mitchell has started off his second professional season strong. He scored a goal in his second game of the year in the Bears 3-2 win over Binghamton. And tonight, Mitchell had a Gordie Howe hat trick, registering a goal, an assist, and a fight in the Bears’ home opener. Well, should we call it a Gordie Howe hat trick plus with him registering a game misconduct too?

Kyle Mace’s exceptional photos of each event are below.

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Stan Galiev Breaks Stick in Hershey Bears Hardest Shot Competition

HERSHEY, PA – (L to R) Cameron Schilling, Tomas Kundratek, Stanislav Galiev, and Dmitry Orlov pose for a photo after the hardest shot contest at Giant Center. (Kyle Mace – Sweetest Hockey on Earth)

The start of the hockey season is almost here, which means it’s time for Season Ticket Holder pickup night for many teams around the country. Thursday night, the Hershey Bears held their event, which also included the annual hardest shot contest. This year, however, the combination of a malfunctioning radar gun and Stan Galiev‘s stick fracturing in half made for some pretty hilarious moments.

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Giant Center Time-Lapse in 30 Seconds

Over the past few weeks, Hershey’s Giant Center has been the epicenter of many PIAA (Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association) District III playoff basketball games. Saturday afternoon, the Chambersburg Trojans and the Harrisburg Cougars faced-off for the AAAA District III Championship at 1pm. That same day however, the Hershey Bears and the Binghamton Senators would compete for two points in the AHL standings.

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Hershey Bears Players go Back to School…Kind of

Hershey Bears Zach Miskovic, Andrew Carroll, and Jacob Micflikier pose for a photo with the 2nd grade students of Nye Elementary

Students at Nye Elementary in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania are use to reading a story with their mother or father, even their brother or sister. But Wednesday afternoon was a bit different, as Hershey Bears players Keith Aucoin, Ryan Potulny, Garrett Mitchell, Andrew Carroll, Zach Miskovic, and Jacob Micflicker came to the school to read to first and second graders.

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