Hershey Survives Close Final Minutes, Takes 1-0 Series Lead Over Lehigh Valley Luke Brown for Chocolate Hockey After more than a week of no games for the Hershey Bears, the message from head coach Todd Nelson and AHL Coach of…
How the Bears advance to division finals.
The moment Bear Nation has waited for is finally here! The Hershey Bears will begin their title defense against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Saturday night, the Hershey Bears got back to the Giant Center after the All-Star Break and a 4-1 win against Bridgeport to take on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. With the start of the first period, the Bears came out with…
The Chocolate and White looked to get back to their winning ways Sunday afternoon as they took on their other Keystone state rival, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The first period of play was rather lackluster for the rival Phantoms, but…
The first game of the season is in the books, and while it might not be the result the Bears wanted, that doesn’t mean we can’t share the photos.
In the first game of the 80th AHL season in Hershey Bears hockey history, goaltender Parker Milner would get the call as both Pheonix Copley and Vitek Vanecek were ruled out due to injuries. Milner would have to deal with a Phantoms team looking for revenge after the Bears knocked them out of the playoffs last season.
“We faced adversity many times this year, and we gotta go in and win a hockey game. Obviously, it’s not ideal what’s happened here the last couple days, but we’ve had success in [Lehigh Valley] the last three games…so we certainly can go win tomorrow.” Those were the words of Troy Mann following last night’s loss to the Phantoms at Giant Center, and the Bears responded by gutting out a 3-2 win on Sunday evening. Hershey advances to the second round where they will have home ice advantage against the Providence Bruins.
The Hershey Bears were unable to close out their series with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Wednesday night, as the Phantoms took the game in overtime on Chris Conner’s breakaway goal. Hershey rematches the Phantoms with another chance to close things out on Saturday.
The game was similar to the first in the series, as both teams played a tight-checking game. Hershey had its best start of the series, energized by the loud crowd at Giant Center.
Don’t let the fact the Lehigh Valley Phantoms blew a 4-2 lead in the third period distract you from the fact the Hershey Bears now have a two game lead heading back home.
After you check out these GIFs, head on over to Corey Swartz’s recap to check out images that don’t move a breakdown of Saturday night’s win.
Chris Bourque celebrates his game winning goal with less than a minute left in the third period to beat Lehigh Valley in game two of the Atlantic Division semi-finals (Kyle Mace / Chocolate Hockey)
The Hershey Bears erased a 4-2 deficit in the third period, and Chris Bourque’s game winning goal with 33 seconds on the clock got Hershey a 5-4 victory in Lehigh Valley on Saturday night. Hershey takes a two-games-to-none series lead, with the chance to eliminate the Phantoms on Wednesday night at Giant Center.
