{"id":911,"date":"2008-11-22T06:17:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=911"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:35:37","slug":"bears-continue-to-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/11\/22\/bears-continue-to-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Continue To Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Whenever the Bears and the Phantoms meet on a Friday night, fans never know what to expect.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, two things have remained constant between the rivals in the City of Brotherly Love this season:<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>scoreboard malfunctions and balanced scoring from the Bears, the second of which led to the Chocolate and White\u2019s 5-2 victory.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Early in the first period, Hershey found themselves at a two-man disadvantage, when Graham Mink and Keith Aucoin received penalties 39 seconds apart, giving the Phantoms a 5-on-3 advantage for 1 minute and 29 seconds.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Bears\u2019 penalty killers responded to their early challenge by not allowing a single shot on goal during the entire sequence.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Bears\u2019 head coach Bob Woods felt that the momentum gathered from the successful penalty kill was the spark his team needed to move forward. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cI thought we were a little bit flat,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was bus legs, or whatever, but I thought that kill kind of gave us a little extra juice; I thought we kind of took control after that.\u201d<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">And take control, they did, scoring a pair of goals within 1 minute and 11 seconds from the sticks of Alexandre Giroux and Andrew Gordon, giving Hershey a 2-0 lead.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Shortly before the first intermission, the Patrick Maroon scored for the Phantoms, with a goal that replicated his success in the Phantoms\u2019 shootout win against the Bears on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, where he beat Bears\u2019 goaltender Bobby Goepfert twice in similar fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">It was a successful night for Kyle Wilson who found the back of the net for the third consecutive game after being the recipient of a long distance tape-to-tape pass from defenseman Patrick McNeill.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tonight\u2019s Hershey goalie, Simeon Varlamov, registered his first professional point by contributing to the tally at 1:31 of the second period.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Wilson, who also added another strike later in the evening which marked his 6<sup>th<\/sup> and 7<sup>th<\/sup> goals in the last nine games after enduring a ten game scoreless drought, chose not to alter his game to change his fortune, but instead kept plugging away in hopes that his luck would change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cYou just kind of stay the course.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Every person has their times when they\u2019re not scoring and you\u2019ve got to try not to change your game at all and try to keep doing what you\u2019re doing and it will eventually go in for you,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Using the recently rediscovered Bears\u2019 killer instinct, Francois Bouchard lit the lamp only 1 minute and 32 seconds after Wilson\u2019s goal, giving Hershey a three-goal cushion of 4-1.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bouchard\u2019s goal, assisted by Oskar Osala and Mathieu Perreault, was the 9<sup>th<\/sup> goal contributed by that line against the Phantoms this season.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Andrew Gordon, who knows a thing or two about what it takes to be successful in a first season of professional hockey, potting 16 goals in 07-08 during his rookie season, is not surprised by the unit\u2019s success.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"AR-SA;\">\u201cThey have so much skill, so much ability.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Oskar brings a different element to the two young French guys,\u201d Gordon said.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They\u2019re so quick, they\u2019re so fast, and they read off each other so well and Oskar is so strong in the corners.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He gets the pucks to them.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They all bring a different element that brings them together so well.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s fun to watch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever the Bears and the Phantoms meet on a Friday night, fans never know what to expect.\u00a0 However, two things have remained constant between the rivals in the City of Brotherly Love this season:\u00a0 scoreboard malfunctions and balanced scoring from the Bears, the second of which led to the Chocolate and White\u2019s 5-2 victory.\u00a0 Early &#8230; 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