Bears Give Up 3rd Period Lead, Fall To Phantoms, 4-3: Martin Fehervary and Shane Gersich Score First Goals Of The Season

Photo: Lehigh Valley Phantoms

The Hershey Bears fell to the Lehigh Valey Phantoms 4-3 Wednesday night at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Bears took a 3-2 lead into the second intermission, but gave up two goals in the final frame for the 4-3 defeat. Pheonix Copley stopped 15 of 19 shots faced. The loss drops the Bears record to 5-2-2-0 (12 points) on the season.

STARTERS
Pheonix Copley (1-0-1-0, 1.97 GAA, .920 sv%) got his third start of the season between the pipes for the visiting Bears. Felix Sandstrom (0-0-1-0, 4.95 GAA, .861 sv%) started in goal for the Phantoms. The starting forward lines and defensive pairs for the Bears:

Scratches: Lucas Johansen (upper body injury), Eddie Whittchow (lower body injury), Macoy Erkamps (lower body injury), Blake Pietila (Illness), Kale Kessy, Zach Maltesta, Tyler Nanne, Caleb Herbert.

FIRST PERIOD
The Phantoms opened the scoring with a goal from Linus Sandin (2) at 9:52 of the first frame.

And that would be all of the scoring in the opening frame. The Phantoms led 1-0 after 20 minutes.

Lehigh Valley led in shots 5-3 in the first period. The Phantoms were 0 for 1 on the power play. The Bears did not have a man advantage in the opening frame.

SECOND PERIOD
The Bears tied the game with a shorthanded goal from Martin Fehervary (1) just 52 seconds into the second period. Riley Sutter had the lone helper.

Riley Sutter to Marty “The Party” Fehervary for a shorty, ties game 1-1. #CapsProspect #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/qZZhL3dHi7

— NoVa Caps (@NoVa_Caps) March 4, 2021

But the Phantoms would quickly answer with a goal from Tanner MacMaster (1) at 2:47 of the second period.

The Bears would tie the score with a goal from Shane Gersich (1) at 9:21 of the middle frame. Riley Sutter would win the draw and dish to Gersich for the shot. Sutter had the lone assist.

Riley Sutter wins faceoff, dishes to Shane Gersich for his first goal of the season. Two primary assists for Sutter so far in this one. First multipoint game for Sutts. Game tied 1-1. #CapsProspect #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/ItEzrVejIb

— NoVa Caps (@NoVa_Caps) March 4, 2021

The Bears would grab their first lead of the game with their second shorthanded goal of the period. This time Axel Jonsson-Fjallby (2) would pot the tally at 12:16 of the middle frame. Brett Leason had the helper.

Axel Jonsson-Fjallby with the Bears second shorty of the game. It’s Axel’s second goal of the season. #ALLCAPS #CapsProspect pic.twitter.com/2QLYhYFWq1

— NoVa Caps (@NoVa_Caps) March 4, 2021

The period would end with the Bears leading 3-2. Hershey led in shots 9-6 in the middle frame and 12-11 after two periods. Both teams were 0 for 2 on the power play after two periods.

THIRD PERIOD
The Phantoms would tie the score 3-3 with a redirected goal from Cal O’Reilly at 12:22 of the final frame.