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Hershey ties franchise record of quickest team to 20 wins after Vincent Iorio’s overtime game-winner

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The Hershey Bears snapped the Providence Bruins’ seven-game winning streak in an exciting 3-2 overtime victory Wednesday night. The Bears are now 20-6-0 and have tied a team record from the 2008-09 season for least games to 20 wins.

Capitals defensive prospect Vincent Iorio won the game for the Bears in extra time for his second overtime winner of his career. Iorio has three goals and seven points so far this season and has spent his time playing on the second defensive pairing.

Russian prospect Ivan Miroshnichenko also had a strong showing and scored 0:51 in on the first shot of the game.

On his first shift of the night, Miroshnichenko blasted a shot past the Providence Bruins’ goaltender Brandon Bussi. The goal was his seventh of the season.

The rest of the first period stayed silent for both teams. The second period was similarly quiet until the Bruins scored with 2:48 left in the period. They got themselves another goal just 1:46 later on a power play and took a 2-1 lead over the Bears.

The Bears got a power play of their own in the third to tie the game again. Mike Sgarbossa passed the puck to Pierrick Dube in front of the net, who put the puck past Bruins goaltender Brandon Bussi.

Back and forth play throughout the rest of the third period led the two teams to three-on-three overtime.

Iorio’s was able to put the game away for the Bears in extra time. A great steal in the Bears’ defensive zone set Iorio and Ethen Frank up for a two-on-one rush. Iorio took the shot himself and fired the puck top shelf, ending the Bruins winning streak and giving the Bears their 20th win.

A second angle of the goal and team celebration after is even better.

 

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Inside the locker room, Iorio received the postgame bar head award for his goal.

Ivan Miroshnichenko was promoted to the top line tonight in replacement of Mike Vecchione, who is out with an upper-body injury.
Here were the full lines from the game:

Here are the video highlights:

Below is the game recap from Hershey via press release:

IORIO LIFTS BEARS TO 3-2 OVERTIME WIN OVER BRUINS

Hershey matches franchise record for fastest 20-win start

(Hershey, PA – Dec. 13, 2023) – Vincent Iorio scored his second career overtime-winning goal to lift the Hershey Bears (20-6-0-0) to a 3-2 win over the Providence Bruins (13-8-2-2) on Wednesday night at GIANT Center.

The victory enabled the Bears to match the franchise record for the fastest 20 wins to start the season (originally established by the team in 2008-09 with a record of 20-5-0-1).

BOX SCORE

Ivan Miroshnichenko scored 59 seconds into the contest on Hershey’s first shot of the game, when he received a cross-ice pass from Ethen Frank in the neutral zone and made his way up the middle before snapping the puck over the glove of Brandon Bussi for his seventh of the season.

Joey Abate tied the game for Providence late in the second after the Bruins won a face-off in the offensive zone and Frederic Brunet’s shot from the point deflected on net by Abate; the forward stuffed the rebound past Hunter Shepard at 17:12.

The Bruins then took a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 18:58, as John Farinacci stole the puck behind the Hershey net and fed it in front of the cage for Georgii Merkulov to put past Shepard.

Pierrick Dubé leveled the score for Hershey at 6:38 of the third period with a power-play goal. As Mike Sgarbossa and Logan Day passed the puck back-and-forth above the right circle, Dubé settled into the slot before receiving a pass from Sgarbossa and putting his 13th of the season past Bussi to make it 2-2 and force overtime.

The Bears claimed the game late in the extra frame when a backchecking Ethen Frank managed to recover the puck from a Providence skater in the Hershey zone and move it along to Sgarbossa, who curled back inside the defensive zone and set a pass up the right side into neutral ice for Iorio, who broke in with Frank on a 2-on-1, before snapping the puck past Bussi at 3:48 to end the match with his third goal of the season.

Shots finished 26-23 in favor of Hershey. Shepard stopped 24-of-26 shots to earn his 10th victory of the season; Bussi took the overtime loss for Providence with a 20-for-23 effort. Hershey went 1-for-3 on the power play; the Bruins went 1-for-5 with the man advantage.

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