{"id":496996,"date":"2026-02-22T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:22:12","slug":"hershey-bears-defenseman-jon-mcdonald-scores-goal-on-wild-bank-shot-you-can-only-see-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496996\/","title":{"rendered":"Hershey Bears defenseman Jon McDonald scores goal on wild bank shot you can only see to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2034\" height=\"1356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jon-mcdonald-goal-hershey-bears.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jon McDonald celebrates a goal in Hershey\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Hershey Bears\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>HERSHEY, PA \u2014 Jon McDonald\u2019s fifth career goal in the AHL is one he\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>After Grant Cruikshank won a neutral zone faceoff, the Bears defenseman sent an innocent dump-in into the offensive zone. It was there that McDonald got the most fortunate bounce of his career. <\/p>\n<p>The puck struck a stanchion along the corner boards, and from almost no angle, the biscuit slid into the yawning net as Phantoms goaltender Carson Bjarnason looked in horror behind the twine.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald could be seen smiling ear-to-ear as he celebrated with his teammates just inside the offensive zone.<\/p>\n<p>After getting throttled 4-1 by the Phantoms the night before, McDonald\u2019s tally, at 2:17 of the first period, gave Hershey a 1-0 lead early against their intrastate rival in front of a capacity Giant Center. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald, more known for his physical play, has recorded 16 points (5g, 11a) in 73 games for the Bears over the past two seasons. And he may never see a more luckier bounce than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Hershey Bears HERSHEY, PA \u2014 Jon McDonald\u2019s fifth career goal in the AHL is one he\u2019ll never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-496996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}