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Thought to be a distant memory, last night\u2019s disappointing 5-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phantoms at Giant Center served as a painful reminder of the frustration that was commonplace prior to the Bruce Boudreau\/Bob Woods era whenever Philly was on the schedule.<\/span><\/div>\n

Turnovers and squandered scoring chances both contributed mightily to the Hershey Bears demise in the first of six meetings between the interstate rivals this month.<\/p>\n

Hershey dominated the first period, out shooting the Phantoms 16-9, with Kyle Wilson\u2019s first goal of the season, the only marker of the stanza. Wilson, who led the Bears with 30 goals last season, confessed that his scoring drought has been on his mind. \u201cObviously you get frustrated when you go that that long without scoring, when you\u2019re expected to score,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just have to stay the course and keep playing your game and it eventually will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the second period, it was the Boyd Kane show, when the former Bears\u2019 captain scored a natural hat trick, Kane\u2019s goals, one a tap in on the power play, one when he outraced a Bears\u2019 defender to a rebound, and the third, a deflection from between the face off circles, came at the expense of the Bears\u2019 net minder, Daren Machesney, who could not be fully faulted for any of the markers.<\/p>\n

Woods, while not laying all the blame on his goaltender, was far from complimentary. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t looked comfortable there (of late); you look at the save percentage, I\u2019m sure that bothers him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s been able to get some wins; a lot of it was because we were scoring a lot of goals. Our concern is our goals against right now, and it\u2019s just not goaltending.\u201d<\/p>\n

While goaltending is certainly a point of concern, special teams play, in which players have stopped buying into the \u201cteam concept\u201d and have instead made it about individual effort, has been the bigger problem.<\/p>\n

Woods, who, after prior losses, has subscribed to the \u201clesson learned\u201d theory, pitched a different idea to help his team prepare for tomorrow\u2019s return engagement against the Phantoms: \u201cWe\u2019ve gotta forget about tonight, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it, but we can still do something about tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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