Hershey Bears Beat Toronto Marlies 4-3 in Overtime; Joe Snively Scores Game-Winner


The Hershey Bears roared to a 4-3 win in overtime over the Toronto Marlies at Giant Center Sunday evening. The victory moves the Bears’ record to 34-7-0-2 (70 points) on the season. Forward Jimmy Huntington recorded two goals, including the game-tying tally with 20 seconds to go in regulation.

LINEUPS

The Bears started Hunter Shepard while the Marlies countered with Dennis Hildeby in net.

BEARS

Joe Snively – Mike Sgarbossa – Ethen Frank
Mike Vecchione – Jimmy Huntington – Pierrick Dube
Ivan Miroshnichenko – Hendrix Lapierre – Bogdan Trineyev
Ryan Hofer – Riley Sutter – Henrik Rybinski

Aaron Ness – Dylan McIlrath
Hardy Haman Aktell – Logan Day
Jake Massie – Chase Priskie

Hunter Shepard
Clay Stevenson

Unable to Play: Lucas Johansen (upper-body injury; week-to-week), Vincent Iorio (illness), Alex Limoges (upper-body injury), Matthew Strome (upper-body injury)

MARLIES

Roni Hirvonen – Logan Shaw – Nick Abruzzese
Kyle Clifford – Dylan Gambrell – Alex Steeves
Kieffer Bellows – Ryan Tverberg – Joseph Blandisi
Robert Mastrosimone – Josiah Slavin – Zach Solow

Max Lajoie – Tommy Miller
Marshall Rifie – Topi Niemela
Cameron Gaunce – Mikko Kokkonen

Dennis Hildeby
Keith Petruzzelli

1ST PERIOD

The first period saw little scoring until the final minute of play, with the Bears’ Chase Priskie scoring his fourth goal of the season at the 19:28 mark on assists from Henrik Rybinksi and Riley Sutter.

Just 16 seconds later. Toronto’s Logan Shaw beat Hunter Shepard to even the score at one goal apiece; Roni Hirvonnen and Nick Abruzzese were credited with the assists on the play.

2ND PERIOD

Unlike the opening frame, the scoring started early in the second period, with Jimmy Huntington giving the Chocolate and White their second lead of the night, assisted by Chase Priskie and Jake Massie.

The goal from Huntington would prove to be the only scoring by either club in the middle period, with Hershey entering the second intermission up 2-1 and leading Toronto in shots 23-18.

3RD PERIOD

With the Bears’ Bogdan Trineyev in the box for tripping, Joseph Blandisi took full advantage of the resulting power play, scoring his 11th goal of the season just past the halfway mark of the third; goal was assisted by Nick Abruzzesse and Max Lajoie.

The deadlock would last less than a minute, as Kieffer Bellows potted his 18th goal on the year at 11:21 to give the Marlies a 3-2 lead. Blandisi and Ryan Tverberg picked up the assists on the play.

With twenty seconds left in regulation, Jimmy Huntington scored his second of the night to send the game to overtime; Ivan Miroshnichenko and Mike Vecchione picked up the assists on the goal.

OVERTIME

Joe Snively scored the sudden-death winner with less than two seconds left in the overtime period. The goal, his ninth, was assisted by Chase Priskie.

 

ICE SHAVINGS
– AHL Box Score
– Jimmy Huntington’s second goal marked his 100th career point in the AHL.
– Chase Priskie Recorded 3 (1G, 2A) Points on the night

By Michael Fleetwood

About Michael Fleetwood

Michael Fleetwood was born into a family of diehard Capitals fans and has been watching games as long as he can remember. He was born the year the Capitals went to their first Stanley Cup Final, and is a diehard Caps fan, the owner of the very FIRST Joe Beninati jersey and since then, has met Joe himself.

Michael joined the NoVa Caps team in 2015, and is most proud of the growth of the NoVa Caps community in that time. An avid photographer, Michael resides in VA.





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