The Hershey Bears, coming off an impressive 6-1 road win over the Toronto Marlies on Saturday in the first game of a brief two-game road swing, fell to the Lake Erie Monsters on Sunday at Quicken Loans Arena, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Hershey, stumbled out of the gate in the first period, registering just two shots on net in the stanza; however, one of those shots, a point blast from defenseman, Sean Collins, at 6:49, staked them to a 1-0 lead. Collins\u2019 goal was his first of the season and the first of his AHL career.<\/p>\n
Philippe Dupuis\u2019 rising wrist shot at 16:07 beat Hershey goaltender, Simeon Varlamov, who was making his second consecutive start after returning from an injury, knotting the score at one.<\/p>\n
Andrew Gordon\u2019s 19th goal of the season at 2:07 of the second period, assisted by Collins and Kyle Wilson, gave Hershey their second one-goal lead of the game at 2-1.<\/p>\n
Less than two minutes after Gordon\u2019s goal, Monsters\u2019 forward, Randy Rowe, tied the game again with his fifth goal of the season at 4:00. Mike McLean quickly followed up Rowe\u2019s tally, notching his first goal of the season at 5:33 to give Lake Erie a 3-2 lead after the end of two periods.<\/p>\n
Wes O\u2019Neill\u2019s 1st goal of the season at 2:48 of the third period, gave Lake Erie a two- goal lead, 4-2.<\/p>\n
The never-say-die Bears crawled back into the game only 22 seconds after O\u2019Neill\u2019s goal when Mathieu Perreault beat Monsters\u2019 netminder, Jason Bacashihua, at 3:10 to make it a 4-3 game. Perreault, by potting his 10th goal of the season, became the 9th Bear to register double-digit goal totals in the 2008-09 campaign.<\/p>\n
Hershey\u2019s penalty killing unit, ranked near the bottom of the league\u2019s standings, surrendered a power play goal to former Bear, Matt Hendricks, at 5:55 to give Lake Erie a 5-3 lead. Hendricks\u2019 goal, his 12th of the season, was scored while Sami Lepisto was in the penalty box serving a minor penalty for hooking.<\/p>\n
Per Ledin\u2019s power play goal at 10:17 took the remaining wind out of Hershey\u2019s sails and gave Lake Erie their final margin of victory, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"