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Hershey gets goal from Ethen Frank but falls to Lehigh Valley 4-3 in shootout

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The Hershey Bears lost to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms 4-3 Saturday night, falling to 29-7-1 on the season. The game marks the first time in eight opportunities that the Bears have lost after regulation has concluded.

Henrik Rybinski, Garrett Roe, and Ethen Frank all scored in the game. The team registered 34 shots against the Phantoms and all three of Hershey’s goals were scored in the first period.

The Bears have had an uncharacteristic start — at least for this season’s squad — to the new calendar year, losing two of their first four games.

Rybinski opened scoring for the game 5:37 into the first period. Rybinski came up the left circle and pressed towards the net, where he beat Phantom’s goaltender Cal Peterson over his blocker. Rybinski now has goals in his last three games.

Lehigh Valley retaliated with a goal of their own just 1:06 later. After a Bears’ slashing call, the Phantoms were able to put the puck past Bears’ netminder Hunter Shepard on the man advantage.

The back-and-forth play continued as Roe found the net for the Bears just under two minutes later. As rookie forward Ivan Miroschichenko rushed up into the offensive zone the ice with Roe, Miroshnichenko passed to Roe in the slot, where he fired it past the netminder.

Frank helped the Bears establish more of a lead 13:54 into the first. A minute into a Bears power play, Frank – looking like a young Ovechkin – fired the puck from the left circle past the goaltender to give the Bears a 3-1 lead.

The Phantoms would once more with just over a minute left on the first period clock, giving the Bears a 3-2 lead going into the second.

After the hot first period where the Bears totaled 18 shots on net, neither team found the net in the second, with Shepard and Peterson both making gorgeous stops throughout the period.

The Phantoms eventually broke the scoring drought, finding the net 9:32 into the third period and tying the game 3-3.

The game would go to overtime, where the Bears were given 51 seconds of 4-on-3 play after a Phantoms’ penalty. However, the Bears failed to score even with the extra man and would go on to lose in the fourth round of the shootout.

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Here is the full game recap via press release:

BEARS EARN POINT IN 4-3 SHOOTOUT LOSS TO PHANTOMS

Rybinski, Roe, and Frank score for Hershey

(Allentown, PA – Jan. 13, 2024) – The Hershey Bears (29-7-0-1) began the second half of the 2023-24 season with a 4-3 shootout loss against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (16-13-5-1) on Saturday night at PPL Center.

The defeat was the first time in eight games this season that Hershey had not won a game that had gone beyond regulation. Hershey is now 5-1-0-1 against Lehigh Valley this season.

BOX SCORE

Henrik Rybinski scored in his third straight game, opening the scoring at 5:37 of the first period when Matt Strome stripped a Lehigh Valley skater of the puck at the Phantoms’ blue line and found Rybinski, who deked through the defense before beating Cal Petersen for his third of the season.

The Phantoms answered with a power-play goal from Olle Lycksell, who buried a Tanner Laczynski feed on the back door of Hunter Shepard at 6:43.

Garret Roe then teamed up with Ivan Miroshnichenko and Bogdan Trineyev to bury his fifth of the season on Petersen at 8:32 with a shot from the slot, putting the Bears up 2-1.

Ethen Frank extended Hershey’s lead with a power-play one-timer from the left circle at 13:54, with Joe Snively and Mike Sgarbossa assisting.

Samu Tuomaala brought Lehigh Valley back to within a goal at 18:56 to close out the opening stanza.

After the deluge of scoring in the first period, the second period featured several spectacular saves by both goaltenders, including a two-pad stack from Petersen on Lucas Johansen and a post-to-post glove stop by Shepard on Lycksell during the same sequence midway through the period.

Ronnie Attard tied the game for the Phantoms at 3-3 at 9:32 of the third period, and the game went to extra time. The five-minute sudden-death period yielded no decision, and the Phantoms claimed the game in the fourth round of the shootout as Jon-Randall Avon scored for Lehigh Valley, and Strome was stopped by Petersen in the attempt to keep Hershey alive.

Shots finished 34-24 in favor of the Bears. Shepard put up a 20-for-23 effort in the shootout loss for Hershey; Petersen got the win for Lehigh Valley with a 31-for-34 effort. Hershey went 1-for-4 on the power play; the Phantoms went 1-for-5 with the man advantage.

Headline Photo: Lehigh Valley Phantoms

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