Category: Todd Nelson
Hershey Bears fall to Toronto Marlies 4-3 (OT) in Todd Nelson’s 1,000th game as a head coach
Alex OvechkinThe Hershey Bears fell to the Toronto Marlies 4-3 in overtime at Coca-Cola Coliseum, Wednesday. After jumping out to a 3-0 lead, the Bears wilted down the stretch, surrendering four unanswered goals. The defeat came a day after the team lost Ivan Miroshnichenko, who was called up to the Capitals wit...
Read moreTodd Nelson returns to Hershey Bears after taking family leave
Bridgeport IslandersThe Hershey Bears announced that head coach Todd Nelson returned to the team on Thursday morning per a release. Nelson, who took family leave on November 4, was away for nine days and missed three games. Hershey went 3-0-0 with Nelson gone, defeating the Springfield Thunderbirds during a weekend bac...
Read moreHendrix Lapierre and Dylan McIlrath receive rings as Washington Capitals celebrate Hershey Bears’ 2024 championship team
BearsThe Washington Capitals celebrated the Hershey Bears’ 2024 Calder Cup championship team on Wednesday ahead of their game against the Nashville Predators. After a video feature on the jumbotron, the Bears’ vice president of hockey operations, Bryan Helmer, walked out the Calder Cup and was joined on...
Read moreHershey Bears announce head coach Todd Nelson will be away from team due to family reasons
BearsThe Hershey Bears announced on Monday that head coach Todd Nelson will be away from the team due to family reasons. In a short release, the Bears said that assistant coaches Nick Bootland and Patrick Wellar will serve as co-head coaches during Nelson’s absence. The Hershey Bears have announced that...
Read moreCapitals send prospect Alex Suzdalev to the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays
Todd NelsonAlex Suzdalev is headed to North Charleston after the Washington Capitals re-assigned the prospect winger to the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays on Thursday. Suzdalev had been with the AHL’s Hershey Bears since the start of Training Camp, playing his first game with the club last Saturday. Forward A...
Read moreJake Massie scores first goal of season in Hershey Bears’ 2-1 loss to Lehigh Valley Phantoms
BearsThe Hershey Bears suffered only their second regulation loss in nine games, Wednesday night, after falling to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms 2-1 at Giant Center. The loss came after a three-in-three this past weekend and marked Hunter Shepard’s first on the season. The reigning AHL goaltender of the yea...
Read moreAlex Suzdalev makes AHL debut against Springfield Thunderbirds on 10/26, gets rookie treatment during warmups
RMNBAlex Suzdalev, a Washington Capitals’ third-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, made his long-awaited American Hockey League debut against the Springfield Thunderbirds on Saturday — a moment that was two years coming. Suzdalev, who made the team out of training camp last season but was loaned to Swede...
Read moreAlex Limoges and Chase Priskie both score twice in Hershey Bears’ 6-2 win over Springfield Thunderbirds
ThunderbirdsAfter playing Friday night, the Hershey Bears looked tired and surrendered the first eight shots of the game to the Springfield Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds scored twice during that sequence, getting tallies from Reece Newkirk and Matthew Peca in the first 6:41 of the first period. But the veteran...
Read moreNothing guaranteed for Capitals prospects Zac Funk and Alex Suzdalev with Hershey Bears this season: ‘You have to earn your spot here’
Zac FunkThe Hershey Bears are six games into their quest to three-peat as Calder Cup champions. Hershey’s 31-player roster is once again stacked from top to bottom, returning the vast majority of the team from last year’s championship run under head coach Todd Nelson. Given their lack of turnover and buoyed...
Read moreHow the Hershey Bears are handling their captaincy and leadership group with Dylan McIlrath gone
Dylan McIlrathHERSHEY, PA — The Hershey Bears raised their 13th Calder Cup championship banner to the rafters on Saturday but were missing one of the biggest pieces from their back-to-back title runs. Dylan McIlrath, the team’s captain for the previous two seasons, made the Washington Capitals out of Training Cam...
Read moreTodd Nelson thinks several Bears players could get looks from the Capitals: ‘You’re seeing these young guys that are ready to take that next step’
Caps’The Hershey Bears have flourished over the first two seasons of Todd Nelson’s tenure as head coach, winning back-to-back Calder Cups for the third time in franchise history. After the team’s stellar performance in 2022-23, several Bears players earned permanent spots with the Capitals last season, i...
Read moreIvan Miroshnichenko and Bogdan Trineyev important players on Hershey Bears’ championship team: ‘We win Cup! Oh, my god, it’s unreal!’
Bogdan TrineyevHERSHEY, PA — While the Hershey Bears had much of the same veteran core as last season, the team was powered by different prospects and role players as they repeated as Calder Cup champions in 2024. Russian forwards Ivan Miroshnichenko and Bogdan Trineyev earned big responsibility from Bears head co...
Read moreHershey Bears dedicate Game 4 Calder Cup Finals win to injured alternate captain Aaron Ness
Aaron NessAaron Ness was unable to play in Game 4 of the Calder Cup Finals due to injury, but he managed to help his team anyway. Out since Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Ness suited up and took warmups with the Bears for the first time since suffering his lower-body. “It was a big
Read moreRiley Sutter appears slated to return to Hershey Bears’ lineup for Game 1 of Eastern Conference Finals
Hershey BearsRiley Sutter has missed all of the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs due to an undisclosed injury. But Thursday, the veteran center appeared ready to return for the start of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Hershey Bears will play the North Division’s Cleveland Monsters in a seven-game series to determine...
Read moreOpen Thread: Hershey Bears vs Hartford Wolf Pack – Round 3, Game 3
BearsThe Hershey Bears can make quick work of the Hartford Wolf Pack with a win at XL Center tonight. Hershey secured two victories on home ice to kick off the best-of-five series and will go for the three-game elimination in Connecticut. In their Game Two victory last Saturday, the Bears got goals from...
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