AHL Playoff Preview: Hershey Bears at Charlotte Checkers with Line Combinations 5/17/2025

Game 2: Hershey Bears at Charlotte Checkers  

Venue Bojangles Coliseum
Date: Saturday, May 17
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: FLO Sports 

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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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