Game 2: Hershey Bears at Charlotte Checkers
Venue Bojangles Coliseum
Date: Saturday, May 17
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: FLO Sports
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster
Hershey Bears News & Notes:
Hershey looks to get a win tonight to even the series before returning home. They are 3-3-0 in the Calder Cup playoffs, averaging three goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game. Hunter Shepard got the start in game one stopping 21 of the 24 shots he faced. He posts a 2.47 goals-against average, a .893 save percentage, and a shutout. Clay Stevenson stopped 28 of the 32 shots he faced in his lone game.
Charlotte Checkers News & Notes:
The Checkers look to take a commanding 2-0 series lead tonight after winning last night 3-2. They improved to 4-1-1 in the Calder Cup playoffs, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game. Kaapo Kahkonen is posting a 1.81 goals-against average, a .921 save percentage, and a shutout.
Hershey Bears Projected Lines
Limoges-Lapierre-Smallman
Vechhione-Sgarbossa-Philp
Trineyev-Roe-Dubé
Miroshnichenko-Sutter-Strome
Ness-Iorio
Massie-Priskie
Leivermann-McDonald
Shepard
Stevenson
Charlotte Checkers Projected Lines
Skoog-Asplund-Leonard
Smith-Criscuolo-Sourdif
Steeves-Okuliar-Vilmanis
Lockwood-Chorske-Puljujarvi
Carrick-Benning
Bjornfot-Hovorka
Alscher-Cesana
Kahkonen
Appleby
Players To Watch:
Hershey Bears
Alex Limoges leads the team in points and assists with six points and five assists. Bogdan Trineyev leads the team in goals and plus/minus with four goals and he is a plus-fours
Charlotte Checkers
Wilmer Skoog, John Leonard, and Michael Benning lead the team in points with four apiece. Skoog and Ben Steeves lead in goals with three each. Kyle Criscuolo leads in assists with three. Will Lockwood leads the team in plus/minus with a plus-five.
Next Game
Game 3: Wednesday, May 21 at Giant Center
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