Birch Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 (edited) From the Weekly: Coming Up The Hershey Bears make their only visit of the season to the Tsongas Arena as they skate into town on Wednesday. Last year in the two-game season series each team claimed victory on their home ice. The Devils are 3-3-0-0 all-time against the Bears with a 3-0-0-0 record at the Tsongas Arena. Hershey leads the East Division at 7-4-0-0 and is tied for the AHL Edited November 5, 2009 by Birch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CerebralGenesis Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 ouch lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shtikl Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 The Devils looked so slow tonight against Hershey, it was scary. At even strength, they had trouble clearing the puck out of their own end. Their powerless play had a few good chances but spent most of the time chasing the puck around their own end. I was waiting for Hershey to score a shortie when the Devils had the 5-on-3, the two points were pinching so deep. BTW, the auto club "sponsors" the "AAA" power play, is it just a coincidence that "AAA" is the smallest and weakest battery? At least the PK was excellent -- Sestito and Davis or McAmmond and Gionta up front, really took the wind out of Hershey's sails and both pairs had their chance to score a shortie but just missed. Bad as it went for the Devils, they got lucky a few times. Looked to me like one of Hershey's early shots in the 1st period went over the goal line and Frazee's right skate kicked it out before Terry Koharski noticed. Each team had a shot go off the post, and Frazee made at least two scrambling how-did-that-not-go-in saves. But the bounces went Neuvirth's way all night. Snetsinger had a beautiful breakaway and shot it high over the net, and Zharkov just ran out of room to shoot on his solo. Of course it's easy to make saves when your skaters Aucoin's first goal looked like he passed it across the goal mouth to a teammate, who swatted it in. If the scoring didn't change on review, then it must have gone in off a Devils player but it was clearly planned as a tip-in. Osala's goal came out of nowhere, a quick turnover and it looked like a blind shot through a screen, just slid under Frazee's pads before anybody saw it coming. In the "fight" Helmer was trying to yank off a piece of Gionta's face, he grabbed something and wouldn't let go, the linesman had a hard time getting Gio free. Gotta be a really brave guy, that Helmer, taking on a guy who's 6 inches shorter and 30 pounds lighter. Robitaille had a little dust-up with Sugden, who shoved him off balance, but it was so feeble it was hardly worth 2 minutes. The highlight of the game was the broomball during intermission. The lowlight was the Pepsi chugging competition. My spy noticed Matt Cohen and Nathan Perkovich buying souvenirs from the stand on the concourse. Hope they were buying gifts for family and friends. But attendance is so low (1031, lowest so far this season and most of the people actually at the game were visiting from Hershey), I wouldn't be surprised if the team makes them buy their own uniforms. They doing that in Trenton yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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