This season, all the Hershey Bears will be taking apart of “Movember.” Movember is an event during the month of November when people grow mustaches to raise awareness for men’s health issues. The Bears are growing “mo” throughout the month to raise money for this cause. We will be keeping tabs on the guy’s ‘staches all month long with photos and updates.
Tuesday morning, in the latter part of Hurricane Sandy coming through Central PA, the Hershey Bears announced their 2012 Hall of Fame Class. Lloyd S. Blinco, Arthur Fausnacht, Ralph Keller, Willie Marshall, Frank Mathers, Mike Nykoluk, and John B. Sollenberger will all be inducted into the Bears Hall of Fame December 19th, 2012 when the Bears take on the Norfolk Admirals.
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!
HERSHEY, PA – Zach Hamil celebrates his goal against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in Hershey’s 3-2 win (Kyle Mace – Sweetest Hockey on Earth)
Sunday the Hershey Bears faced off against their I-81 rivals from Wilkes-Barre Township to close out the month of October. A night after celebrating the first win of the season at Giant Center and a stellar 35-save shutout by Braden Holtby, the Bears hung for a 3-2 victory.
HERSHEY, PA – Zach Hamil (center) celebrates his goal with teammates Stan Galiev (left) and Ryan Stoa during Hershey’s 3-0 win over Albany (Kyle Mace – Sweetest Hockey on Earth)
After dropping three straight games including their first two games at Giant Center, the Hershey Bears looked for redemption against the Albany Devils. With Braden Holtby back in between the pipes for the first time since game one, he earns his first shut out of the season in a 3-0 Hershey victory.
Saturday night is the second ever social media night for @TheHersheyBears, and Bears defenseman, @StevenOleksy, is tweeting his day for everybody to see! Check out what he has tweeted so far below the jump.
Photo credit: Rachel Cohen
It’s probably best not to draw any conclusions about the Hershey Bears after first five games. The Bears have only earned 3 of a potential 10 points in the opening two weeks of the season.
Friday night they lost again on the road, 3-1 to the Connecticut Whale.
Photo credit: Kyle Mace
If you recall on Saturday, the Hershey Bears wore special sweaters for their home opener to celebrate their 75th year in existence. After the game, the organization held a special event down at center ice and auctioned off each player’s jersey. The end result? The Bears raised an extraordinary $39,950 for their charities and a few lucky fans got to go home with a personally signed game-used jersey from their favorite player.
Which sweater ended up raising the most cash? The result may shock you.
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.
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.