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#5 Hershey Bears (3-2) vs. #2 Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (2-1)
May 7, 2026 | 7 p.m. | GIANT Center | Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton leads, 2-1
Referees: Stephen Hiff (46), Mike Sullivan (47)
Linespersons: Dylan Blujus (57), Devon Gale (97)<\/p>\n
Giveaway: The first 6,000 fans will receive a fan clapper, thanks to Penn State Health, Pepsi, and Shippensburg University.<\/p>\n
Broadcast Information<\/p>\n
PXP: Zack Fisch, Garrett Mitchell, Mitch Lamoureux, and Todd Sadowski Game preview<\/p>\n The Hershey Bears gave up two early goals to the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in Game 3, but came back with authority, scoring three consecutive goals and showing an identity that could take them deep in the playoffs. As the team tried to close things out late in the third, the Penguins\u2019 Avery Hayes tied the game up after a blown call by officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then, in overtime, Rutger McGroarty<\/a> stole the game for WBS, deflecting a shot past Clay Stevenson while all alone in front of the net and setting off a chaotic scene at Giant Center.<\/p>\n Hershey Bears fans throw debris on the ice after jumbotron replay appears to show Rutger McGroarty\u2019s overtime game-winner didn\u2019t go in<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Now, the Bears will have to author a big comeback and force a Game 5, which, according to Bears\u2019 head coach Derek King, is just how this year\u2019s \u201cToo Dumb To Quit\u201d team finds its success.<\/p>\n \u201cThis team\u2019s never done anything easy this year, so we\u2019re going to have to do it the hard way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Bears have been led by their first line of Andrew Cristall (2g, 4a), Ilya Protas<\/a> (2g, 4a), and Bogdan Trineyev<\/a> (3g, 3a), who all have six points apiece in the postseason. Cristall enters tonight\u2019s game riding a four-game point streak, while Protas and Trineyev have points in five straight.<\/p>\n Per the Bears, Cristall and Protas are the first Bears rookie duo to record at least six points in a single postseason since Hendrix Lapierre<\/a> and Ethen Frank<\/a> did so during the team\u2019s 2023 playoff run.<\/p>\n Puck drop for tonight\u2019s game is at 7 pm.<\/p>\n RMNB\u2019s feature on Alex Alexeyev and the Bears\u2019 Russian-speaking players<\/p>\n Hershey Bears and Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins second-round series pits Alex Alexeyev against former teammates: \u2018Obviously, in playoffs, there\u2019s no friends\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lines Miroshnichenko\n <\/p>\n Rybinski\n <\/p>\n Suzdalev\n <\/p>\n Unavailable for the Bears tonight due to injury\/illness: Cam Allen, Spencer Smallman, Eriks Mateiko<\/p>\n Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins<\/p>\n 1st Period<\/p>\n Puck is dropped.<\/p>\n
TV: Antenna TV (WPMT FOX 43.2, Xfinity Ch. 247 and 1178, Verizon FiOS Ch. 463, Blue Ridge Ephrata Ch. 91, and Blue Ridge Newberry\/Duncannon Ch. 88)
Radio: WFVY-100.1-FM, Fox Sports 1460-AM, In-arena on 88.9-FM
Watch live: AHLTV on FloHockey
Listen live: Froggy Valley 100.1-FM Stream<\/a>, Fox Sports 1460-AM Stream<\/a>
Radio pre-game coverage starts at 6:30 p.m.; Television coverage starts at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
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