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Riley Sutter has missed all of the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs due to an undisclosed injury. But Thursday, the veteran center appeared ready to return for the start of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Hershey Bears will play the North Division's Cleveland Monsters in a seven-game series to determine who will go to the Calder…

The Hershey Bears will open their postseason against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in Game One of the AHL's second round after 10 days off post-regular season finale. Hershey only just got a large portion of their roster back from the Washington Capitals two days before the first scheduled puck drop against the Phantoms inside Giant…

The decision, made by a Hockey Canada panel, will allow the right-shot defenseman to play in the WHL as a 15-year-old next season.

Ethen Frank completed his third career hat trick -- his second this season -- as the Hershey Bears beat the Iowa Wild 7-2 on Saturday. The goals were Frank's 26th, 27th, and 28th of the season, passing Pierrick Dube (27) for the Bears' team lead in tallies. Frank is also tied for fifth in the…

HERSHEY, PA -- The Hershey Bears lost to the Providence Bruins 4-1 on Tuesday. In front of a packed house at Giant Center for Mike Vecchione's bobblehead night, the Bears unraveled in the second period as the Bruins scored three consecutive goals (Michael Callahan, Anthony Richard, and Marc McLaughlin). The most egregious play was a…

As the Hershey Bears crushed the Cleveland Monsters for the second-straight night, they made some history in the process. The Bears shut out the Monsters 5-0 to give Hunter Shepard his fourth clean sheet of the season. The victory marked Hershey's 11th shutout of the 2023-24 season, breaking the franchise's single-season shutout record. Hershey's other…

The two hockey teams that met March 22 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse could easily end up playing for the AHL Eastern Conference championship later this spring.

The two hockey teams that met March 22 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse could easily end up playing for the AHL Eastern Conference championship later this spring.

Going into Friday night's matchup with division rivals the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Hershey Bears were missing five important players in their usual starting lineup. The Bears have been without star forward Ethen Frank due to a lower-body injury he suffered against the Providence Bruins on Feb. 9. Bears' captain Dylan McIlrath was out due to…

HERSHEY, PA -- Vincent Iorio's first Teddy Bear Toss with the Hershey Bears was memorable but not for the right reasons. Hershey was shut out by the Bridgeport Islanders 2-0 in the 2023 version of the event. With no clean-sheet plan in place for the crowd, Hershey watched helplessly as fans mutinied, hurling all their…