AHL Playoff Preview: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears with Line Combinations 5/11/2025

Game 5: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears

Venue: Giants Center
Date: Sunday, May 11
Time: 5:00 pm EDT
TV: FLO Sports

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Lehigh Valley Phantoms News & Notes:

Lehigh Valley took the games two and three of the series before dropping game four at home. The Phantoms in the Calder Cup Playoffs are 3-3-0, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game. Parker Gahagen suffered an injury in game three which led to Cal Petersen starting game four. Petersen stopped 21 of the 27 shots he faced. He is posting a 4.23 goals-against average and an .857 save percentage.

Hershey Bears News & Notes:

Hershey forced the series back home for a winner-take-all game five. They are averaging three goals per game while allowing 2.8 goals per game. The Bears made a goalie change for game four going with Clay Stevenson who stopped 28 of the 32 shots he faced.

Lehigh Valley Phantom Projected Lines

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

McDonald-Belpedio
Andrae-Samson
Ginning-Grans

Petersen
Bjarnason

Hershey Bears Projected Lines

Limoges-Lapierre-Dube
Vecchione-Roe-Smallman
Miroshnichenko-Philp-Trineyev
Sutter-Strome

Ness-Iorio
Massie-Priskie
McDonald-Perrott
Hunt

Stevenson
Shepard

Players To Watch:

Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Anthony Richard, Jacob Gaucher, and Olle Lycksell lead the Phantoms in points with six. Gaucher, Richard, and Zayde Wisdom lead the team in goals with three each. Emil Andrae leads the team in assists. Gaucher and Wisdom lead the team in plus/minus as they are a plus-seven.

Hershey Bears

Alex Limoges leads the Bears in points and assists with five points and four assists. Pierrick Dube, Ivan Miroshnichenko, Chase Priskie, and Bogdan Trineyev each have two goals to lead Hershey. Jon McDonald leads the Bears in plus/minus as both are plus-three.

Next Game

Game 1: TBD

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