{"id":1198,"date":"2009-01-12T06:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:35:35","slug":"pens-blitz-bears-11109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2009\/01\/12\/pens-blitz-bears-11109\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens Blitz Bears 1.11.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Following Saturday\u2019s debacle at Giant Center, in which the Hershey Bears surrendered the last four goals of the game to fall to the Albany River Rats, head coach Bob Woods warned of future disaster if his team failed to put forth a better effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cI don\u2019t care how good we think we are, or what our record is. If we don\u2019t play 60 minutes, and work hard, anybody can beat us\u2026,\u201dcommented Woods. \u201cIf they try to go in with the same effort tomorrow, it will be pretty ugly; I guarantee it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">On Sunday, Woods\u2019 words proved prophetic when the Bears surrendered the final five goals of the game to give the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins the 6-2 win at Wachovia Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Woods, electing not to throw any particular player under the bus for his club\u2019s second straight setback, decided instead to head straight for the bus, skipping his customary post-game gathering with the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"x-small;\">Things started well for Hershey when Giroux scored his 28<\/span><sup><span style=\"12pt;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"x-small;\"> goal of the season, and 11<\/span><sup><span style=\"12pt;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"x-small;\"> in 7 games since returning from Washington. Giroux one-timed a cross-ice pass from Chris Bourque behind Bourque\u2019s former college teammate, Penguins netminder, Jon Curry. Giroux\u2019s goal, scored with Hershey enjoying a 5-on-3 manpower advantage, was the Bears\u2019 first 5-on-3 goal of the campaign.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">A little over three minutes later, the Penguins tied the game at one with a goal from Bill Thomas at 7:49.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Hershey regained the lead at 14:35 on a goal by Kip Brennan. Brennan\u2019s goal, assisted by his linemates, <\/span><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Steve Pinizzotto and Andrew Joudrey, was his first marker of the season. Pinizzotto did the majority of the labor on the Brennan bid, forcing a turnover Pinizzotto on WBS defenseman Jon D\u2019Aversa. After Pinizzotto\u2019s thievery, Joudrey gathered in the loose biscuit and quickly fed Brennan alone and on the doorstep of Curry for an easy tally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cWe worked hard down below the goal line,\u201d said Brennan, whose last AHL goal was scored almost exactly a year ago (1-12-08).<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cJoudrey and Pinizzotto cycled it a couple times and Joudrey made a great pass to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">The Penguins came out like a team possessed, outshooting the Bears 12-3 in the second period, scoring three goals in the stanza, including Janne Pesonen\u2019s power play goal at the buzzer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">In the third period, the baby Pens didn\u2019t let up, and the Bears didn\u2019t step up.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The home team scored two power play goals in the first two minutes of the period, one from Danny Richmond and the other from Jean-Michel Daoust to give the Pens their 24<sup>th<\/sup> win of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Sunday\u2019s loss marked Bears\u2019 goaltender, Simeon Varlamov\u2019s, first loss in a month. Varlamov, making his 20<sup>th<\/sup> appearance for the Chocolate and White, gave up a season high six goals in the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">When asked whether or not he thought the Bears were outworked in the game, forward Alexandre Giroux was quick to offer up a candid response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"AR-SA;\">\u201cAbsolutely.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe not in the first; in the first, we did what we wanted to do and I think after that they won every battle along the wall and in front of the net.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They came out stronger than us in the second and third.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Saturday\u2019s debacle at Giant Center, in which the Hershey Bears surrendered the last four goals of the game to fall to the Albany River Rats, head coach Bob Woods warned of future disaster if his team failed to put forth a better effort. \u201cI don\u2019t care how good we think we are, or what &#8230; <a title=\"Pens Blitz Bears 1.11.09\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2009\/01\/12\/pens-blitz-bears-11109\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pens Blitz Bears 1.11.09\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1890],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-capitals","tag-hershey-bears"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pens Blitz Bears 1.11.09 | The-Hogs.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2009\/01\/12\/pens-blitz-bears-11109\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pens Blitz Bears 1.11.09 | The-Hogs.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following Saturday\u2019s debacle at Giant Center, in which the Hershey Bears surrendered the last four goals of the game to fall to the Albany River Rats, head coach Bob Woods warned of future disaster if his team failed to put forth a better effort. \u201cI don\u2019t care how good we think we are, or what ... 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