The Hershey Bears got a huge road victory over the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins on Friday at Mohegan Arena, starting their weekend three-in-three with a big two standings points.<\/p>\n
The Bears got goals from Andrew Cristall, Sonny Milano<\/a>, Ryan Chesley, and Bogdan Trineyev. Mitch Gibson made 30 saves on 32 shots, earning his seventh victory of the season.<\/p>\n Hershey won the game in the second period, scoring three consecutive goals. Cristall got the Bears on the board first, lighting the lamp 6:01 into the frame with his 14th goal of the season. Taking a no-look backhand pass from Brett Leason<\/a> behind the net, the Capitals\u2019 prospect winger fired a quick shot past an unaware Sergei Murashov.<\/p>\n Andrew Cristall goal<\/p>\n Milano extended the Bears\u2019 lead 4:31 later with his second AHL goal of the season after seeing a centering pass from the goal line bounce off Penguins defenseman Jack St. Ivany and in.<\/p>\n Sonny Milano goal<\/p>\n Chesley would score what would end up being the game-winner \u2014 his third game-deciding goal of the season \u2014 1:06 after Milano\u2019s tally. As a Bears\u2019 two-on-one disintegrated, Cristall skated the puck out of the corner and then showed off his elite vision, finding Chesley jumping into the play on the right side. The Capitals\u2019 defense prospect then rifled a shot past Murashov.<\/p>\n Chesley\u2019s three game-winners are the most by a Bears rookie defenseman since Cameron Schilling tallied four during the 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n Ryan Chesley<\/p>\n The trio of Bears\u2019 goals came in a span of just five minutes and 37 seconds.<\/p>\n Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton responded in the third period with goals from Aidan McDonough (2:35) and Rafa\u00ebl Harvey-Pinard<\/a> (8:43), but Bogdan Trineyev<\/a> sealed the Bears\u2019 victory with an empty-net goal \u2014 his 12th of the season \u2014 at 18:46.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was nice to see us get a lead like that, especially on a good team like that,\u201d Bears head coach Derek King said. \u201cBut that\u2019s a good hockey team, so you can\u2019t drop your guard, and they pressured us, they tilted the ice, and you can see what they can do, but we weathered the storm, but we\u2019ll take the two points and get out of here and go home.\u201d<\/p>\n Cristall, Milano, and Trineyev each finished the night with a goal and an assist, while Leason had two apples. Ilya Protas had a primary assist on Milano\u2019s second-period goal, extending his team lead in points to 49 (24g, 25a) in 58 games.<\/p>\n The Bears will next play the Hunter Shepard-less Belleville Senators on Saturday and Sunday at home to complete their three-in-three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hershey Bears got a huge road victory over the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins on Friday at Mohegan Arena, starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-138382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}