AHL Playoff Preview: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears with Line Combinations 5/2/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears with Line Combinations 5/2/2025
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Game 2: Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Hershey Bears

Venue: Giant Center
Date: Friday, May 2
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
TV: FLO Sports 

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Lehigh Valley Phantoms News & Notes:

Lehigh Valley had all 26 shots stopped in Wednesday’s 3-0 loss. They will try to pick up a win tonight to even the series before they head back home. They are now averaging 2.7 goals per game in the Calder Cup Playoffs.

Hershey Bears News & Notes:

Hershey started the series off with a win as Hunter Shepard stopped all 26 shots he faced to open up the Calder Cup Playoffs for the Bears. They will look to take a commanding 2-0 series lead in this best-of-five series.

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

Vecchione-Sgarbossa-Dube
Limoges-Lapierre-Smallman
Miroshnichenko-Rybinski-Trineyev
Strome-Sutter-Philp

Ness-Iorio
Massie-Priskie
Lievermann-McDonald

Shepard
Gibson

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. Hunter McDonald leads the team in plus/minus with a plus-three.

Hershey Bears

Nine player on the Bears have one point following Wednesday’s win. Chase Priskie, Spencer Smallman, Bogdan Trineyev each scored a goal for Hershey on Wednesday. Six players each had assists in game one. Hendrix Lapierre, Alex Limoges, and Aaron Ness are all plus-two after game one.

Next Game

Game 3: Sunday, May 3 at PPL Center

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