Friday, December 16: Hershey 1 @ WBS 3
The Hershey Bears brought the American Hockey League’s best record to the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza for their seventh and eighth games of the season against the WBS Penguins. WBS, meanwhile, entered the game having lost defender Mark Friedman and their leading scorer Drew O’Connor to promotion to Pittsburgh. As has been demonstrated so many times over the last two decades, though, records don’t always matter when it’s the Penguins and the Bears.
WBS jumped out of the gates to a 2-0 lead at 8:37 of the first period through a pair of goals from less likely sources.