{"id":251759,"date":"2025-10-26T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:42:07","slug":"andrew-cristall-scores-first-professional-goal-with-hershey-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251759\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cristall scores first professional goal with Hershey Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andrew-cristall-first-ahl-goal-hershey-bears.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Andrew Cristall skates to the Hershey Bears bench after scoring his first professional goal in Hershey\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Hershey Bears\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cristall notched a personal milestone <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/25\/alex-ovechkin-1500-games-24th-player-nhl-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the same night Alex Ovechkin played his 1,500th career game in Washington DC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>During the first period of the Hershey Bears\u2019 matchup against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Cristall scored the first goal of his AHL career, sending a beautiful one-timer from the right circle past goaltender Carson Bjarnason.<\/p>\n<p>The power-play goal at 14:47 was assisted by Alex Suzdalev and Calle Ros\u00e9n. The primary assist also marked Suzdalev\u2019s first career AHL point.<\/p>\n<p>Cristall also registered a secondary assist earlier in the period on a Bogdan Trineyev goal. The Russian forward finished on his backhand after being sprung on a breakaway by Matt Strome. The goal, at 6:32, marked the Bears\u2019 first shot of the game.<\/p>\n<p>With a goal and an assist in the first period, Cristall <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/11\/andrew-cristall-first-ahl-point-debut-hershey-bears-ahl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notched his second career multi-point game in the AHL<\/a>. He also did so in his AHL debut on October 11 after assisting on two Ethen Frank goals. His first assist marked his first professional point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Hershey Bears Andrew Cristall notched a personal milestone on the same night Alex Ovechkin played his 1,500th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-251759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}