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Nic Aube-Kubel scores first with Bears as Hershey notches third straight win

By Faith Harris

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November 1, 2023 11:02 pm

A back-and-forth game between the Hershey Bears and Leigh High Valley Phantoms ended with the Capitals’ AHL affiliate securing the victory in extra time. The Bears have now won three straight games and post a record of 7-2-0.

After clearing waivers and reporting to the Bears before the NHL season, Nic Aube-Kubel scored his first goal with the team. Chase Priskie also had a banner night, scoring the overtime game-winning goal for the Bears for his first goal with the franchise. It was also his 100th career point.

After a scoreless first, the Phantoms found net first 3:57 into the second period.

Aube-Kubel’s first goal with the Bears got the team on the board. A toe-drag move from NAK to the front of the net deflected off a Phantom player’s stick and rolled into the net, tying the game 1-1.

A steal from Aube-Kubel at center ice during the Phantom’s power play helped set up Bogdan Trineyev for a breakaway. Trineyev beat goalie Felix Sandstrom glove-side for the team’s first shorthanded of the season and his second career AHL goal, putting the Bears up 2-1.

However, the Phantoms responded by tying the game just a minute later.

A two-on-one breakaway with Pierrick Dube and Ivan Miroshnichenko sparked the action in the third period. Dube held the puck the entire way and fired from the left circle past Sandstrom, giving the Bears a 3-2 lead with 10 left in the third.

The Phantoms would respond once again, tying the game on the power play 15:07 into the third to force overtime.

Chase Priskie was the Bears’ hero, firing the puck past the netminder on an alone breakaway to secure the win.

Here is the video of the game highlights:

Here were the lines.

And below is the full recap from the Hershey Bears.

PRISKIE PUSHES BEARS TO 4-3 OT WIN OVER PHANTOMS

Defender nets his first of the season to lift Hershey

(Hershey, PA – Nov. 1, 2023) – Defenseman Chase Priskie netted his first goal of the season in sudden-death, as the Hershey Bears (7-2-0-0) opened the month of November with a 4-3 overtime win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (3-4-1-0) on Wednesday night at GIANT Center to remain atop the American Hockey League’s Atlantic Division.

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Both teams played through a goal-less opening frame, with Hershey outshooting Lehigh Valley by a 10-9 differential.

Cooper Marody knocked in the first goal of the game at 3:57 of the second period when his shot beat Hunter Shepard to put the visitors up 1-0.

Nic Aubé-Kubel leveled the score for Hershey at 6:51 when Bogdan Trineyev entered the attacking zone with possession and slid it back up the right wing board to Aubé-Kubel, who drove the net and toe-dragged the puck before it banked in off a Lehigh Valley skate and into the net of Felix Sandström for Aubé-Kubel’s first as a Bear. Dylan McIlrath earned a secondary assist on the goal.

The duo of Aubé-Kubel and Trineyev teamed up again moments later to net Hershey’s first shorthanded goal of the season, as Aubé-Kubel ushered the puck along through center ice to Trineyev for a breakaway and beat Sandström for his second of the season at 11:00 to put the Bears ahead 2-1.

Adam Ginning leveled the score 51 seconds later with a slap shot from the right circle that blistered its way past Shepard at 11:51 to even the game at 2-2.

Seconds after play resumed, the Bears suffered a setback with the loss of Mike Vecchione after the forward was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct after colliding with Ginning at 11:59. With Ethen Frank serving the five-minute infraction, Hershey’s penalty-killing unit held the Phantoms at bay for the duration of the penalty to keep the score level.

Shepard came up with a gorgeous glove save on Olle Lycksell with just over a minute remaining in the stanza to cap a period in which the Phantoms outshot Hershey 15-6.

Pierrick Dubé put Hershey ahead 3-2 at 9:23 of the third when he took a stretch pass from Ivan Miroshnichenko and broke in with Aaron Ness on an odd-man rush and beat Sandström for his third of the season. McIlrath again received a secondary helper.

Jon-Randall Avon tied the game at 15:07 with a power-play goal for Lehigh Valley, forcing the game to overtime.

Priskie secured the extra point for Hershey in the additional frame when Mike Sgarbossa stripped Marody of the puck at the Bears blue line, allowing Priskie to skate in on Sandström on a breakaway and beat the netminder with a shot to the glove side to win it for the hosts. The goal marked Priskie’s 100th career professional/AHL point. Hershey improved to 7-0-0-0 this season when Sgarbossa has recorded a point.

Shots finished 33-28 in favor of the Phantoms. Shepard went 30-for-33 to get the win for Hershey; Sandström went 24-for-28 in the defeat for Lehigh Valley. Hershey was 0-for-4 on the power play; the Phantoms went 1-for-3 with the man advantage.

The Bears visit the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7:05 p.m. at Mohegan Sun Arena. Hershey returns home to host the Bridgeport Islanders at GIANT Center on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m., as they welcome their Atlantic Division opponent to Hershey for the first time this season.

Headline Photo: Tori Hartman/Hershey Bears

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