I got to sit down with Bears forward Riley Barber for our first ever installment of Riliegh at the Rink. We talked about sharing the experience of having fathers that played professional hockey, learn about his pre-game routine, and gave his teammates their yearbook superlatives.
In his first win of the season, Vitek Vanecek had a lot happen. He made some fantastic saves, his defense made some beautiful clearances, and his teammate and countryman Jakub Vrana gave up his number one star of the game to him. Oh yeah, and he also made one of the best saves you will see all season.
Early on in the third period, Lehigh Valley was attacking and put a nice wrist shot on net. Vitek would make the first save, but the puck came loose in front and got fed to Phantoms forward Andy Miele. That’s when one of the most acrobatic saves I have ever seen occurred.
Whether on purpose or by accident, Vanecek let his stick go flying. But the way he threw it, was perfectly in line with Miele’s shot, deflecting the puck away and preserving Hershey’s 3-2 lead. This is something you have to see.
Twitter announced earlier today that they will be discontinuing Vine’s mobile app very soon. With this sad, sad announcement being made, we thought it was the perfect time to look back on some of our all-time favorite Hershey Bears Vines.
RIP Vine. We hardly used you.
The Bears put away their first win of the season with a 5-2 victory over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Riliegh McHugh brings you postgame reaction from the Bears locker room.
When you work in hockey for as many years as Frank Mathers did, you accumulate a lot of stuff. If you’re smart, like Frank’s son JD, you keep all of that stuff. Frank Schofield takes you around JD’s house to take a look at a small percentage of the Mathers collection.
The Bears are back on the ice with a pretty full roster only three days away from the start of the 2016-17 season. We checked out practice today and talked to head coach Troy Mann and center Zach Sill as I bring you the Hershey Bears practice report.
The Hershey Bears are two days into their training camp for the 2016-17 season. Today, we visited Giant Center and captured the events from the ice in both photo and video form.
During the regular season, we began our Hershey Bears video game series with Bears forward Jakub Vrana taking on Jonas Siegenthaler in a game of FIFA 16. Now, only weeks away from UFC 202, featuring a rematch of Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, we have decided it’s now a perfect time to feature another match-up from that day. Vrana takes on Liam O’Brien in UFC 2. Vrana will fight out of the blue corner as Nate Diaz, as O’Brien fights out of the red as The Notorious Conor McGregor.
There were a lot of hugs and smiling faces after Travis Boyd scored his series-winning OT goal against Wilkes-Barre Sunday night. But there was not a better celebration than Aaron Ness‘ on the bench right after the roof came off of Giant Center.
After scoring the game-winning overtime goal Sunday night, Travis Boyd was the man of the hour in the locker room. Boyd had a pretty large media scrum around him in the locker room postgame, but his teammates weren’t going to let him off easy.