GDT: (1) Providence Bruins (vs) (8) Hershey Bears

[BruinsHockey]

since its the AHL playoffs figured I'd make one GDT per round. This could be the official one for this round for regular post you can post in the Providence Bruins sticky. You can move this up there as well.



(1) Providence Bruins vs (8)Hershey Bears

This is only Providence's second time playing Hershey in the playoffs the Bears won the first series 4-1.


The Bruins are 0-3 all time vs Hershey in the playoffs at home.
The Bruins are 1-1 all time @ Hershey in the playoffs all time.



Providence Bruins:

(50-21-0-5 105 pts.) 1st in Northeast

Hershey Bears:

(36-31-3-6 81pts.) fourth in East Division.

BRUINS SCHEDULE:
Date | Opponent |

April 26 | Hershey | 7:05
April 28 | Hershey | 3:05

May 4 | @Hershey| 7:00|
May 5 | @Hershey| 5:00| XX

May 8 | Hershey | 7:05| XX

xx is if necessary.​

Previous Meetings this season:

2 Providence @ HERSHEY 3
2 Hershey @ PROVIDENCE 3






Providence Team Leaders:

Goals: Jamie Tardiff (30)
Assists: Ryan Spooner (40)
Points: Ryan Spooner (57)
PIM: Bobby Robbins (316)
SOG: Craig Cunningham (194)
+/-: Tommy Cross (+15)



Hershey Bears Team Leaders:

Goals: Ryan Potulny (19)
Assists: Jeff Taffe (53)
Points: Jeff Taffe (71)
PIM: Garrett Mitchell (94)
SOG: Ryan Potulny (181)
+/-: Boyd Kane (+11)





Possible Goalie Matchups:

Providence:

Niklas Svedberg: 37-8-2 (record) 2.17 (gaa) 0.925 (save %) 4 (so)
Michael Hutchinson: 13-13-3 2.30 0.914 3

Hershey:

Brenden Holtby: 12-12-1 2.14 0.932 4
Philipp Grauber: 15-9-2 2.25 0.919 2
Dany Sabourin: 9-13-2 2.72 0.903 0







Providence- Hershey:

222 | Goals | 204
183 | Goals Against | 196
63 | Power Play Goals | 59
45 | Power Play Goals Allowed | 48
1246 |Penalty Minutes | 1062



PP/PK Nuumbers:

Providence's home PP is: 37/183 and ranked 5th
Providence's home PK is: 140/161 and ranked 7th.

Providence's away PP is: 26/158 and ranked 15th
Providence's away PK is: 129/153 and ranked 7th.


Hershey's home PP is: 29/175 and ranked 19th
Hershey's home PK is: 128/151 and ranked 13th

Hershey's awayPP is: 30/152 and ranked 6th
Hershey's away PK is: 127/152 and ranked 13th



Providence's and Hershey's overall PP/PK Rankings is:

Providence:

PP: 8th
PK: 5th

Hershey:

PP: 11
PK: 10





Providence's and Hershey's overall GF/GA Rankings:

Providence:
GF: 12
GA: 2

Hershey
GF: 2 way tie for 18th
GA: 4











AHL/NHL Affilate
Providence- Boston
Hershey- Washington

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[Lobster57]

What do most people attribute to the baby B's turnaround? Spooner/Svedberg? Coaching?

 

[Kelly23]

What do most people attribute to the baby B's turnaround? Spooner/Svedberg? Coaching?

I would say Svedberg, but they have a lot of new names this year Bourque, Spooner on the top line helps.

 

[BruinsHockey]

Bartkowski is back. Great move by Boston.

 

[Danton Heineken]

Lines?

 

[Shaun]

we have the AHL Crosby in Bourque to guide us to the Calder Cup

 

[Stone Clode]

Wish I could get up to Providence to catch the games this weekend, but, well...I'll be quite involved in some college extracurricular activities.

In any case, hope the Baby B's break out the broomsticks and blow away the Bears.

Wow, that's a tongue twister...

 

[DoubleAAAA]

I would say Svedberg, but they have a lot of new names this year Bourque, Spooner on the top line helps.

They had Dobby last year too, so it's not like they didn't have good goaltending last year.

 

[BruinsHockey]

Tonight's lines:

Bourque-Spooner-Tardif
Caron-Camper-Cunningham
MacKinnon-Whitfield-Knight
Florek-Hanson-Robins

On defense:

Exelby-Krug
Warsofsky-Trotman
Cohen-Cross

If Bartkowski comes down, one of bottom four won't play.

Svedberg starts

 

[BruinsHockey]

Grubauer was 1st goalie off for @TheHersheyBears at morning skate. Genoway, Rechlicz and Byers skated hard afterward, look to be scratches.

 

[BruinsHockey]

1st playoff game for P-Bruins tonight since losing Game 5 of Calder Cup semis to Hershey on Memorial Day 2009. 1,430 days between games

 

[Bi Coastal Bawse*]

No Koko?

 

[DoubleAAAA]

Tonight's lines:

Bourque-Spooner-Tardif
Caron-Camper-Cunningham
MacKinnon-Whitfield-Knight
Florek-Hanson-Robins

On defense:

Exelby-Krug
Warsofsky-Trotman
Cohen-Cross

If Bartkowski comes down, one of bottom four won't play.

Svedberg starts

Glad to see Knight in the line up given the amount of bodies they've got down there right now.

 

[Kelly23]

Bart over Cohen would be a really nice upgrade.

 

[Hawgood_38]

I'd love to hear some feedback about how Cross and Trotman played this year from some of you regulars at PB's games

 

[xgallantx]

wouldn't mind catching some of this tonight, does AHL have any free streams on the go?

 

[Danton Heineken]

If Spooner dominates in the playoffs and they win a couple rounds, does that guarantee him a spot next year?

 

[Dellstrom]

If Spooner dominates in the playoffs and they win a couple rounds, does that guarantee him a spot next year?

I think he's guaranteed a spot anyway. It's tough fitting him in since we're stacked at the center position, and the team and him have made it clear that's his preferred position. But with this kid, we make it work. I was REALLY high on him before this season, but the way he performed this year takes it to a new level. I think he's really special. He also played pretty good in the few games he was here, given that he wasn't with the best linemates and we were playing some really good teams.

He doesn't exactly play a 4th line game, but a Paille-Spooner-Campbell line could definitely work to start him off. Or, maybe move Kelly down and go Soderberg-Spooner-Jagr/UFA/someone. Having 2 centers on a line is definitely a plus for Claude. But I think Spooner will be a center, no Seguin situation for him. If we absolutely can't fit him, another year in the minors definitely doesn't hurt. But I think he's on his way up.

 

[Bruinator]

Plan B??

 

[RedBruin]

3 PP goals against

 

[Colt.45Orr]

Caron with 2 early stupid penalties to set the gold standard tonight.

 

[DKH]

In with Gorsik and will post later ain't pretty

 

[Bruins Stooge]

4-1 after 2. Svedberg pulled, Hutch in. Tardif with the Bruins lone goal. Ugly, ugly game.

 

[DKH]

Providence looking very good on third but to late

 

[Mantis]

This is where best of 5 series piss me off.