Bears Halted in 3-1 Loss to Bruins

December 10, 2025

The Hershey Bears (12-9-1-0) fell to the Providence Bruins (18-5-0-0) by a 3-1 score on Wednesday night at GIANT Center.

Hershey is now 1-1-0-0 against Providence this season; the loss also snapped a five-game winning streak against the Bruins dating back to Oct. 25, 2024.

BOX SCORE

NOTABLES:

• Brett Harrison scored a power-play goal at 12:08 of the first period to give Providence a 1-0 lead.
• The Bruins took a 2-0 lead at 4:36 that briefly went to video review but ultimately was upheld and awarded to Riley Tufte.
• Ilya Protas got Hershey on the board with a power-play goal at 8:35 of the third period from Ivan Miroshnichenko and Andrew Cristall, whose assist streak was extended to five games (7a).
• Fabian Lysell was credited with the Bruins' third goal of the evening at 14:52 after a video review of a sequence was conducted that showed Lysell scoring on a breakaway; play had continued for half a minute without a stoppage after it initially appeared that Clay Stevenson had made the save.

SHOTS: HER 38, PRO 34

GOALTENDING: HER - Clay Stevenson, 31-for-34; PRO - Michael DiPietro, 37-for-38

POWER PLAY: HER - 1-for-4; PRO - 1-for-3

THEY SAID IT:

Bears head coach Derek King on what positives he took from tonight's result:
"Well, we didn't quit - that's the positive. I thought in the third period, if we play like that, game-in, game-out, for the most part we're going to win some hockey games."

King on how the team configures its lines:
"It's not easy, but we're just trying to find some chemistry and obviously with some injuries too, we don't have a full lineup. So a couple of guys have come up from South Carolina who've done a fabulous job for us. We've got your pairs, two guys always on the line we try to keep together, and then try to get guys in there and maybe there's a little chemistry."

King on what Providence did to contain Hershey:
"Well, they play hard. They play fast, but they have some big 'D' back there that do a good job boxing out - don't allow us to get to the net. We've got to find a way to get to the net. So that's something we got to work on for Friday."

The Bears continue the 2025-26 season, presented by Penn State Health, when they host the Providence Bruins again on Friday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. at GIANT Center for Members 1st Bobblehead Night. All fans in attendance will receive a dual Bears/Capitals bobblehead featuring 2009 and 2010 Calder Cup champion and 2018 Stanley Cup champion John Carlson. Fans 21-and-over will also be able to take advantage of a $5,16 oz. select beer special, available from doors to puck drop. CLICK HERE to purchase tickets for this game.