AHL Playoff Preview: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears with Line Combinations 4/30/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears with Line Combinations 4/30/2025
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Game 1: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears

Venue: Giant Center
Date: Wednesday, April 30
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
TV: FLO Sports 

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Lehigh Valley Phantoms News & Notes:

Lehigh Valley advanced to this matchup with Hershey by sweeping the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in two games in their first-round matchup. The Phantoms outscored the Penguins 8-4 in those two games. Lehigh Valley finished the regular season 5-4-1-0 against Hershey, averaging 2.8 goals per game.

Hershey Bears News & Notes:

Hershey hasn’t played since April 19th, which was a 4-3 loss to Lehigh Valley. They finished the regular season going 5-4-1-0 against the Phantoms, averaging three goals per game in their ten meetings.

Lehigh Valley Phantom Projected Lines

Lyckselll-Gaucher-Widsom
Grebenkin-Abols-Bump
Wilson-Luchanko-Richard
Eklind-Gardner-Smith

McDonald-Belpedio
Andrae-Samson
Ginning-Grans

Gahagen
Petersen

Hershey Bears Projected Lines

Persson-Philp-Dube
Miroshnichenko-Rybinski-Trineyev
Saulnier-Roe-Parascak
Smith-Cruikshank-Strome

Massie-Chesley
Gucciardi-Hunt
Muggli-McDonald

Shepard
Eisele

Players To Watch:

Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Jett Luchanko leads the Phantoms in points and assists with four. Anthony Richard and Alex Bump led the team in goals in the playoffs with two each. Louie Belpedio and Hunter McDonald lead the team in plus/minus with a plus-four.

Hershey Bears

Ethan Bear led the Bears in the regular season in points, assists, and plus/minus. He had 46 points, 36 assists, and was a +33. Ivan Miroshnichenko led the team in goals as he finished with 23.

Next Game

Game 2: Friday, May 2 at Giant Center

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