Bears Ghosted As They Fall 3-0 To Lehigh Valley

Bears ghosted as they fall 3-0 to Lehigh Valley

Saturday night, the Hershey Bears got back to the Giant Center after the All-Star Break and a 4-1 win against Bridgeport to take on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

With the start of the first period, the Bears came out with a lot of energy. Four minutes into the game, the Phantoms scored to put them on the board 1-0. After two late delays of game penalties from each side, the period ended with Lehigh Valley leading by one goal.

The second period started with the Bears on the leftover powerplay from the first. The Bears couldn’t convert but later got another chance as the Phantoms got called for slashing Beck Malenstyn. After the two minutes were over, Chris McCarthy got whistled for hooking. The period ended with the same score as the first LV leading 1-0.

The Bears struggled with stringing passes together and creating useable chances throughout the entire game, which had a toll on all parts. “We have a level and a standard that has to be met, and when we don’t get there, whether it’s as a whole or individually, we won’t have success,” Head Coach Spencer Carbery said during the postgame interview.

The Bears killed the McCarthy penalty as they entered the third but turned around and went onto another PK as Tyer Lewington was sent to the sin bin for holding, this penalty was killed. A couple more penalties later, the Phantoms increased the lead 2-0. Vitek Vanecek left the goal crease and Leigh Valley grabbed an empty netter to seal the deal. Hershey fell 3-0 to the Phantoms to close out the weekend.

The Bears are next in action on Friday the 7th as they head up I-81 to take on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

Bears Strong Second Period Gives Them The Edge In Allentown.

Bears strong second period gives them the edge in Allentown.

The Chocolate and White looked to get back to their winning ways Sunday afternoon as they took on their other Keystone state rival, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

The first period of play was rather lackluster for the rival Phantoms, but not so much for the visiting Bears. Hershey did everything offensively but couldn’t seem to put one behind Phantoms goaltender, Alex Lyon, through twenty minutes of play. The first ended with no score on the board, but Hershey was able to register 15 shots on goal, versus six for Lehigh Valley.

Hershey dominated once again in the second period of play, but this time they got some goals in the net. The Bears tallied three goals in the middle stanza, heading into the third and final period up 3-0. The goals came from Joe Snively, Garrett Pilon, and Brian Pinho. Brian getting his goal only five seconds before the buzzer.

The Bears achieved their three second period goals by throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the net and registering 16 more shots on goal in the second period of play. Not only did they have an offensive onslaught through the first 40 minutes, defensively the Chocolate and White would stay rock solid. Only allowing four shots on goal through this period.

Into the third frame, the Bears’ defensive stand would continue. One man leading that charge was a guy not seen at all in Hershey until this point in the season, goaltender Parker Milner. He was called up earlier in the weekend from the ECHL affiliates, the South Carolina Stingrays in place of the injured Pheonix Copley. After Vitek Vanecek went back-to-back to start the weekend, Milner would get the call in this one. Milner was sensational in this contest, stopping all 19 shots thrown his way, en route to his first career American Hockey League shutout. 

The Chocolate and White have ended 2019 on a high note. Taking two games out of this 3-in-3, and ten out of eleven games overall in December. The Bears will head into 2020 in third place in the Atlantic Division.

The Bears are in action next Friday, January, 3rd as they head on up 81 to meet with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at Mohegan Sun Arena.

From all of us at Chocolate Hockey, have a safe and happy New Year!

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