John Sparenberg Returning to the town in which some of his greatest AHL accomplishments occurred, Hamilton Bulldogs goaltender, Marc Denis, showed the reason he is still on the NHL radar when he stopped 36 shots, including all 23 in the last 40 minutes, to backstop his team to a 4-2 win over the Hershey Bears Wednesday night … Read more
Hershey will scratch: Patrick McNeill, Darren Reid, Grant McNeill, Dean Arsene, and Kip Brennan. Daren Machesney starts in net for the Bears. Forwards for Hershey: Keith Aucoin centering Alexandre Giroux and Graham Mink Kyle Wilson centering Quintin Laing and Andrew Gordon Andrew Joudrey centering Chris Bourque and Steve Pinizzotto Mathieu Perreault centering Oskar Osala and … Read more
The Hershey Bears, who have been very fortunate on more than one occasion during their recent string of 10 straight games in which they gained at least one point in the standings, had their points stolen by the invading Portland Pirates Sunday afternoon at Giant Center, falling 3-2 in regulation for the first time since … Read more
The Hershey Bears, who could not find a way to dent the armor of San Antonio Rampage net minder, Josh Tordjman, in the two teams’ last meeting on December 11th, managed to rustle up a 3-2 shootout win on Saturday night at Giant Center. Thanks in part to two of Tordjman’s former teammates, the Bears … Read more
The Hershey Bears constructed an early 3-0 first period lead, nearly saw the foundation crumble, but managed to pick up the pieces and escape the Wachovia Spectrum with a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phantoms. Andrew Gordon’s goal 1:20 into the first period gave the visiting Bears an early 1-0 lead. Gordon buzzed a shot … Read more
After a disappointing loss to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins the night before, when they blew a two goal lead, Hershey Bears’ head coach, Bob Woods, decided to shake things up a bit by making major changes to the roster. Part of the roster roulette was to insert rookie center, Matthieu Perreault, onto a line with Chris … Read more
It was Groundhog Dog on Friday at the Wachovia Arena, as for the second consecutive Friday, the Hershey Bears, after building a two goal second period lead just like they did last Friday at Giant Center, watched it all crumble to pieces, falling for the second consecutive Friday to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a shootout, … Read more
A night after suffering a disappointing shootout setback against their arch rivals, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Hershey Bears responded in royal fashion with a 2-1 crowning of the Manchester Monarchs on Saturday night at Giant Center. In the first few minutes of the first period, in what would turn out to be the case in every … Read more
In the first meeting of the season between the Hershey Bears and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, it was a lack of discipline on the Penguins part that made a big difference in the outcome of the game. On Friday night, the half-way point in the ten game series between the division rivals, the roles were reversed … Read more
Even though the Norfolk Admirals succeeded in putting an end to Alexandre Giroux’s AHL record goal-scoring spree, halting the streak at 15 consecutive games, they were unable to stop five other Hershey Bears from navigating to the back of net, as the Chocolate and White sailed to a 6-2 win on Wednesday night at Norfolk … Read more