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November 24, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Hershey Bears News Release


The Hershey Bears Hockey Club picked up three of a possible six points over their three-game set this week. The team enters the new week in second place in the East Division and in seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

The club visited the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Wednesday, and found itself down 2-0 in goals and 20-9 in shots after the first period. Andrew Gordon and Brandon Manning scored for the Phantoms, but Philipp Grubauer was otherwise outstanding. He went on to stop 19 more shots through the second, third and overtime periods - including five shots on a Lehigh Valley overtime power play - and kept the Bears in the game long enough to allow a comeback. Dane Byers netted his fourth goal of the season while the Bears worked a late second-period power play, taking a Chris Conner pass and slipping it past goaltender Rob Zepp. Kris Newbury then scored one of his patented timely goals to knot the score early in the third. With no scoring in overtime, the game went to the shootout for the first time for both teams this season, and Blair Jones would provide the heroics with the only goal in the second round.

The Bears came back home to host the Worcester Sharks on Saturday, the first of a six-game homestand. Grubauer again got the start, and right off the bat brought the crowd to life with a great save on a Worcester first- period power play. The Bears were about to earn their first man advantage, but Chris Brown - reassigned from Washington earlier in the day - fired a one-timer past Aaron Dell while the team was on the delayed penalty call for the only goal of the game. Chandler Stephenson earned the primary asssist on the goal, and Tomas Kundratek also added a helper for his league-leading 12th among defensemen. Grubauer tacked on a 38-save performance to his 37 saves on Wednesday to pick up first- star honors and improve to 6-4-2 on the season. The shutout was his seventh in a Hershey uniform.

The tables were turned on the Bears on Sunday, however, as St. John's IceCaps goaltender Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 33 shots that the Bears sent his way, en route to a 2-0 win. Carl Klingberg and Chase Balisy each registered a goal and an assist for St. John's. The Bears top- ranked penalty kill was perfect on four more chances in the contest.

HERSHEY BEARS NEWS AND NOTES

STILL THE ONE: Despite being held scoreless in back-to-back games for the first time this season, C Kris Newbury maintains his lead atop the rest of the American Hockey League with 21 points (10-11-21) in his 18 games played. His next milestone is just around the corner, as the native of Brampton, Ontario is now just 20 games shy of 700 for his AHL career.

GIANT GRUBAUER: G Philipp Grubauer put together some of the finest goaltending of his career this past week. In a 3-2 shootout loss at Lehigh Valley on Wednesday, Grubauer made what was a season-high 37 saves in regulation and overtime. He topped that with a 38-save shutout on Saturday over Worcester, earning him first-star honors. Over his last three starts, Grubauer is 2-0-1 with one shutout, a goals-against average of 1.88 and save percentage of .958.

BRICK WALLS: Bears goaltenders Philipp Grubauer and Pheonix Copley are the only tandem in the league with two shutouts each. Their two shutouts rank tied for second in the AHL.

WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?: RW Chris Brown returned from a week- long stay with the Washington Capitals and immediately chipped in, scoring the game's only goal on Saturday vs. Worcester. The goal was his third of the season. In eight games with Hershey, Brown has three goals, one assist and a plus-4 rating.

"O" FROM THE "D": Hershey's defensemen have been chipping in remarkably on offense. At least one Bears defenseman has found the score sheet in all but three of the season's games played - November 2, 14 and 23 - and Bears blueliners have a total of 42 combined points (eight goals, 34 assists) through 18 games, with two more (1-1-2) coming on Sunday vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

BEARS BULLETS: The Bears own the AHL's top-ranked penalty kill (90.5%), and have killed 17 consecutive opposing power plays...Hershey has held its opponent to three or fewer goals in 13 consecutive games at GIANT Center...Hershey ranks fifth in shots against per game (26.72)...The Bears also rank fifth in goals against per game (2.28)...The Bears own the AHL's best attendance mark through seven home games, with an average of 8,996 fans.

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