{"id":404180,"date":"2026-01-13T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:55:12","slug":"andrew-cristall-now-leads-the-hershey-bears-in-points-and-is-the-ahl-rookie-assist-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404180\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cristall now leads the Hershey Bears in points and is the AHL rookie assist leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2304\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/andrew-cristall-teddy-bear-toss-hershey-bears.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"Andrew Cristall at the Teddy Bear Toss\" 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>Andrew Cristall continued his strong rookie AHL season with the Hershey Bears on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old winger recorded the primary assist on Hershey\u2019s first goal of the game, a Louie Belpedio wrister that floated past Cleveland Monsters goaltender Ivan Fedotov.<\/p>\n<p>Cristall now has 26 points (5g, 21a) in 32 games, which leads the Bears after fellow rookie Ilya Protas went without a point in Hershey\u2019s 3-2 victory over the Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey Bears scoring leaders as of January 11, 2026<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hershey-bears-scoring-leaders-011126.jpg\" alt=\"Hershey Bears scoring leaders as of January 11, 2026\" width=\"1342\" height=\"1069\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575655\"  \/>Screenshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TheAHL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cristall is also now tied with Coachella Valley Firebirds defenseman Tyson Jugnauth for the AHL rookie lead in assists (21). Jugnauth is a year older than Cristall and has played in one more game this season. No other rookie has more than 16.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday\u2019s win, Cristall played on Hershey\u2019s second line with Henrik Rybinski and Matt Strome.<\/p>\n<p>Cristall recently surged up the team and league leaderboards after <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/21\/andrew-cristall-hershey-bears-nine-game-point-streak-goals-consecutive-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he went on a nine-game point streak<\/a>, stretching from November 29 to December 21. During that streak, he had assists in seven straight games and recorded 11 total points (2g, 9a).<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are 17-14-1 this season and sit fifth in the AHL\u2019s Atlantic Division and 10th in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Hershey Bears Andrew Cristall continued his strong rookie AHL season with the Hershey Bears on Saturday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-404180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404180","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=404180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}