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BEARS KEEP ROLLING IN ROUT OF PHANTOMS

January 22, 2015

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Connor Carrick, Tim Kennedy and Stanislav Galiev each registered a goal and two assists and Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves, as the Hershey Bears scored seven unanswered goals to erase an early deficit and cruise to a 7-2 win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Wednesday night at PPL Center.
 
The Phantoms took control of the game early, earning the contest’s first power play and making it count.  Brett Hextall would grab the puck off of a Hershey turnover and backhand a shot from in close that Grubauer stopped.  Petr Straka swarmed in for the rebound, however, and slipped the puck between Grubauer’s pads at 3:15 for a 1-0 Phantoms lead.
 
The Bears would then go to work on a line rush to knot the score.  Carrick joined in, and took the shot that was stopped by Phantoms starter Martin Ouellette.  The goaltender dropped the rebound at his side, and Casey Wellman’s second whack at the puck found its way into the net at 10:21.
 
Hershey took the lead on their first power play of the night.  Galiev, set up in the right circle, took a feed from Carrick and had time to pick the upper-left corner through a screen with a slap shot at 12:16.
 
The Phantoms had a chance to tie the score, but turned the puck over in the offensive zone on their third power play.  Dustin Gazley spotted Jim O’Brien alone in the neutral zone, and O’Brien had nobody in front of him when he took off and beat Ouellette with a high backhand shot at 14:40 for a 3-1 Bears lead.
 
The Phantoms changed goaltenders after this point, with Anthony Stolarz coming on in relief.  But the Bears didn’t let up on him either, as Chris Brown struck early in the second, completing a nice passing play for a 4-1 lead.  Kennedy pushed a pass to Galiev who was skating toward the right corner, and Galiev quickly sent it in front for a one-timer from a cutting Brown at 4:04.
 
The Phantoms got into more penalty trouble, going down two players for a full two minutes shortly afterward.  Carrick was delivered a perfect pass by Kennedy, and his one-timer from the center point sailed by Stolarz at 9:50 for a 5-1 advantage.
 
Brown would then chase down a Philippe Cornet pass and lead a two-on-one rush from the neutral zone.  Brown’s slapper was kicked out by Stolarz, but Kris Newbury followed up the play to backhand the rebound home at 12:23, increasing Hershey’s lead to 6-1.
 
Kennedy’s third point of the game was a four-on-four goal to make it a 7-1 game.  Taking a pass from Conner, Kennedy rifled a long snap shot past Stolarz’s blocker at 10:03 of the third.
 
Lehigh Valley finally got one back at 12:11, skating on a two-man advantage of their own.  With Grubauer scrambling back into position after waving at a sharp-angle shot by Jason Akeson, Brandon Manning was able to fire a shot into the net, rounding out the scoring.
 
Grubauer improved to 13-9-4 on the season with the win.  Ouellette made four saves on seven shots in 14:40 of work and fell to 2-2-0.  Stolarz allowed four goals on 23 shots in 45:20 of relief and earned no decision.
  
The Bears return home to face the Binghamton Senators on Saturday, January 24 at 7:00 PM.  Individual tickets for this and all remaining home games are available at the GIANT Center box office, online at TicketMaster.com or by calling 717-508-BEAR.
 
 
NOTES: LW Nathan Walker was reassigned to ECHL South Carolina earlier in the day…The Bears scratched C Joel Broda, D Michal Cajkovsky, RW Garrett Mitchell, D Mike Moore, D Nate Schmidt and D Patrick Wey… The Phantoms scratched D Mark Alt, D Shayne Gostisbehere, C Blair Jones, RW Derek Mathers, D Jesper Pettersson and C Darroll Powe…The Bears finished the night 3-for-7 on the power play and 9-for-11 on the penalty kill… Three stars: 3-Kennedy, 2-Newbury, 1-Carrick…The Bears have scored three first-period goals in three consecutive games…The Bears have scored seven power-play goals in their last three games…Hershey’s seven-goal performance is the club’s highest single-game production of the season…C Tim Kennedy skated in his 300th AHL game, and has five points (2-3-5) in his last two contests…LW Chris Conner extended his point streak to three games (2-4-6)…C Jim O’Brien’s shorthanded goal was his first goal in a Hershey sweater; O’Brien has five points (1-4-5) and is plus-six in his five games since joining the team...Hershey is six goals away from scoring 20,000 as a franchise (19,994).


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