{"id":958,"date":"2008-11-30T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=958"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:35:37","slug":"bears-score-first-and-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/11\/30\/bears-score-first-and-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Score First and Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">The Hershey Bears did not score until four minutes and 30 seconds of the second period in last night\u2019s grueling overtime game against the Albany River Rats in Albany when Alexandre Giroux lit the lamp.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, Saturday night at Giant Center, Giroux found himself at the forefront of the Bears\u2019 early first period offensive onslaught, assisting on the first goal of the game by Graham Mink at 4:12 into the contest, and later adding two goals of his own as the Bears cruised to a 9-0 win over the Philadelphia Phantoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cIt was a crazy period,\u201d said Giroux, who is tied for the league lead in goal scoring with sixteen goals.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cEverything I was doing, I was doing right.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Aucoin\u2019s a guy who feeds me and Minker works hard and that gives me space on the ice.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was a good first couple shifts and set the tone for the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Scoring became commonplace in the first period, and Greg Amadio added his first goal of the season at 13:48 with a blue line blast, giving the Bears a 4-0 lead to take to the locker room, and starting a trend which saw two of his den mates also picking up their first tallies of the year. Darren Reid scored at 2:33 of the second period, not only marking his first of the year, but also giving the Bears the bragging rights of being the first team in the league to reach the 100-goal plateau.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>For the former Phantom, the goal was a welcome relief in his injury-riddled season,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cIt was an awful lot of weight off my shoulders.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You kind of wait for it. You can\u2019t get down; you have to keep pushing forward and try to get it,\u201d Reid said.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI actually practiced this morning on that shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">The next \u201cfirsts\u201d came when Andrew Joudrey found the back of the net for the first time this season at 11:21 of the second period, with an assist by Steve Pinizzotto, his first point of the season.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u201cPinizzotto made a great play.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He beat their defenseman in and then took him off the puck with a check.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The puck came around the net and I was coming off the bench.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He made a great pass to me and I made a quick release and the goalie wasn\u2019t ready for it,\u201d said Joudrey, who also added a pair of assists for a career-best three point game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Bears\u2019 goaltender, Daren Machesney, who did not face his first shot until 16:50 of the first period, improved to 8-3-0-0 on the season, stopping all 13 shots he faced.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Machesney, winner of his last three starts, two of which were shutouts, has allowed only one goal in those three starts.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hershey Bears did not score until four minutes and 30 seconds of the second period in last night\u2019s grueling overtime game against the Albany River Rats in Albany when Alexandre Giroux lit the lamp.\u00a0 However, Saturday night at Giant Center, Giroux found himself at the forefront of the Bears\u2019 early first period offensive onslaught, &#8230; <a title=\"Bears Score First and Often\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/11\/30\/bears-score-first-and-often\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bears Score First and Often\">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-958","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>Bears Score First and Often | 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\/2008\/11\/30\/bears-score-first-and-often\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bears Score First and Often | The-Hogs.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Hershey Bears did not score until four minutes and 30 seconds of the second period in last night\u2019s grueling overtime game against the Albany River Rats in Albany when Alexandre Giroux lit the lamp.\u00a0 However, Saturday night at Giant Center, Giroux found himself at the forefront of the Bears\u2019 early first period offensive onslaught, ... 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