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December 1, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Hershey Bears News Release


The Hershey Bears Hockey Club picked up four 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 continued a season-long, six-game homestand this week, beginning with the traditional Thanksgiving Eve game on Wednesday.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins came to town, winless in their previous seven visits to GIANT Center. The game would feature stellar goaltending by both Philipp Grubauer and Jeff Zatkoff, and a defensive battle would remain scoreless through two periods. The visitors would be flagged for a delay of game penalty, and the Bears made them pay when Stanislav Galiev one-timed a feed from Connor Carrick over the arm of Zatkoff at the 8:53 mark of the third. The Penguins wouldn't quit, and as they did in their building on November 7, tied the game inside the final minute of play. Brian Dumoulin sent a shot into traffic and the puck found its way behind Grubauer with 50.9 seconds left. Two three-on-three situations were played in overtime, as penalties carried over from regulation, but again neither team could score. In the shootout, Grubauer denied Scott Wilson and Bryan Rust, and made one last save on Andrew Ebbett to help the Bears' goals by Dustin Gazley and Chris Brown stand up in a 2-1 victory.

On Saturday, the Syracuse Crunch came to Chocolatetown and continued their recent success against Hershey. Philippe Paradis netted the game's first goal 6:06 into the game, a lead which held through the latter stages of the second period. Galiev again would get the Bears on the board with a slapper past Andrei Vasilevskiy with 3:19 left in the frame. But Cody Kunyk would score twice in the third, and Jonathan Marchessault would add an empty-netter, sending the Crunch to a 4-1 win.

On Sunday, one week after being blanked 2-0 by the St. John's IceCaps, the Bears turned the table on the IceCaps in a 1-0 victory. Grubauer turned aside all 33 shots he faced, while once again, Galiev would provide the heroics with a third-period power play goal. Tim Kennedy picked up his team-leading 13th assist on the goal, while Philippe Cornet re-entered the lineup to add an assist as well. Former Bears goaltender Peter Budaj made 20 saves in the loss.

HERSHEY BEARS NEWS AND NOTES

GIANT GRUBAUER: Philipp Grubauer appeared in goal for the Bears in all three games during the week. He started with a 24-save performance and three saves on four shootout chances on Wednesday, picking up second-star honors in the Bears' 2-1 win over Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. On Saturday, despite the Bears' 4-1 setback vs. Syracuse, Grubauer turned aside 33 of 36 shots sent his way. His week wrapped up with 33 more saves on Sunday and his third shutout of the season, in the Bears' 1-0 win over St. John's. Grubauer is alone in second place among AHL goaltenders in shutouts, is tied for fifth in wins (eight), ranks tied for sixth in goals-against average (2.05), ranks third in minutes played (908), is fifth in saves (389) and is tied for first with one shootout victory. Grubauer's Sunday shutout was the eighth of his Hershey career, bringing him two away from his Sunday opponent - former Bears backstop Peter Budaj - for seventh place on Hershey's all-time shutout list.

BRICK WALLS: Bears goaltenders Philipp Grubauer and Pheonix Copley are leading the AHL with five combined shutouts.

STAN THE MAN: RW Stanislav Galiev recorded an AHL career-best this week, scoring what amounted to be the only three Bears regulation goals. He provided the offense necessary to get the Bears two points vs. Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton on Wednesday, netted the lone goal in the Bears' loss to Syracuse on Saturday and scored the only goal of the Sunday win over St. John's. All three goals came on the power play as well, pushing Galiev into second place on the Bears in power play goal scoring. TK IS OK: Bears center Tim Kennedy took over the team's assist lead this week by setting up all three of Stanislav Galiev's goals. His three-game point streak has given him a total of 13 helpers, and pushed him into second on the Bears in scoring (1-13-14).

BEARS BULLETS: The Bears own the AHL's top-ranked penalty kill ( 91.0%), and have allowed a league-low eight power play goals in 21 games...The Bears have a power play goal in three straight games at home, pulling their power play ranking into 11th place at home (19.1%) and overall (18.4%)...The Bears rank third in goals against per game (2.19)...Hershey leads the AHL with 14 first-goals in 21 games played...The Bears are 3-3-0-0 when scoring one goal.

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