The Hershey Bears downed the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, 4-1 Wednesday night at the Giant Center in Hershey, PA. Alex Limoges opened the scoring for the Bears with his 9th goal of the season, Ethen Frank posted his 14th tally of the season, Joe Snively added a power play marker and Pierrick Dube added an empty net goal in the win . The victory improves the Bears record to 25-6-0 on the season.
LINEUP
Hunter Shepard (13-2-0-1, 2.36 GAA, .906 sv%) got the start between the pipes for the Bears. Magnus Hellberg (5-4-0-0, 2.80 GAA, .910 sv%) got the start in goal for the visiting Penguins. The forward lines and defensive pairs for the Bears:
Joe Snively – Mike Sgarbossa – Ethen Frank
Alex Limoges – Jimmy Huntington – Pierrick Dube
Mike Vecchione – Garrett Roe – Bogdan Trineyev
Matthew Strome – Riley Sutter – Henrik Rybinski
Aaron Ness – Dylan McIlrath
Lucas Johansen – Vincent Iorio
Hardy Haman Aktell – Chase Priskie
Hunter Shepard
Clay Stevenson
Scratches: Jake Massie, Ryan Hofer, Logan Day, Dmitri Osipov, Nicky Leivermann and Colin Swoyer.
1ST PERIOD
The Bears opened the scoring on Alex Limoges 9th goal of the season at 17:39 of the first frame. The goal was unassisted.
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 🤏@LimogesAlex gets his ninth of the season! https://t.co/jkPfWcZW9p pic.twitter.com/G9qTmCDwwR
— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
And that was it for the scoring in the first frame. The Bears led in shots 7-5. The Baby Pens were 0 for 1 on the power play while the Bears did not have a man advantage in the first 20 minutes.
2ND PERIOD
The Bears made it 2-0 midway through the second period. Ethen Frank (14) dented the twine at 12:18. Joe Snively (16) and Mike Sgarbossa (25) had the helpers.
Tape. To. Tape. @efrank_98 redirects home his 14th of the season!
🍎Snively
🍏Sgarbossa https://t.co/5U2MDblPeh pic.twitter.com/kHYivb03bz— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
The Bears quickly stretched their lead to 3-0 on Joe Snively‘s 8th goal of the season. It came on the power play at 13:51.
Power-play payback is the best kind, don’t you think? 😏
Snives snaps home his eighth of the season!
🍎Sgarbossa
🍏Vecchione https://t.co/rBgFjFKzWX pic.twitter.com/692JubYXin— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
The Bears held the 3-0 lead into the second intermission. Hershey led in shots 16-7 in the second period and 23-12 after two periods. The Bears were 1 for 2 and the Baby Pens 0 for 1 on the power play after two periods.
3RD PERIOD
The Penguins scored their first tally of the night with 8:12 remaining in regulation to make it 3-1. Austin Rueschhoff (5) notched the opening salvo with Taylor Fedun (6) and Joona Koppanen (6) providing the assists.
Here’s a look at Ruesch’s tally pic.twitter.com/kNtyKWhlBj
— WBS Penguins (@WBSPenguins) December 28, 2023
Pierrick Dube added a 6-on-5 empty net goal to restore the Bears three-goal lead with 4:04 remaining in the game.
SHAVINGS
- AHL box score
- Attendance: 10,505