Picture: Tori Hartman
The 2-time defending Calder Cup champion Hershey Bears started their 2025 postseason run on Wednesday night time with a 3-0 win over Lehigh Valley in Recreation 1 of their Atlantic Division semifinal collection at Big Heart.
Recreation 2 of the best-of-five collection is scheduled for Friday night.
Hunter Shepard made 26 saves for his fourth profession postseason shutout and first since Recreation 5 of the Finals in 2023. Shepard has began all 41 postseason video games for the Bears because the starting of the 2023 playoffs.
Chase Priskie, Spencer Smallman and Bogdan Trineyev scored for Hershey, which remained with out its All-Star defenseman and main regular-season scorer Ethan Bear, on recall to Washington.
Parker Gahagen (2-1) stopped 24 of 26 photographs for the Phantoms.
Attendance at Big Heart was 8,050.
(Hershey leads collection, 1-0)
Recreation 1 – Wed., Apr. 30 – HERSHEY 3, Lehigh Valley 0
Recreation 2 – Fri., Might 2 – Lehigh Valley at Hershey, 7:00
Recreation 3 – Solar., Might 4 – Hershey at Lehigh Valley, 5:05
*Recreation 4 – Fri., Might 9 – Hershey at Lehigh Valley, 7:05
*Recreation 5 – Solar., Might 11 – Lehigh Valley at Hershey, 5:00
*if needed… All occasions Jap
