Hershey Bears

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Hershey Bears is the ice hockey delight of Pennsylvania. Hershey Bears is a hockey club, of which Hershey Bears is an ice hockey team. The team is a member of American Hockey League. The team was incorporated in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey Bears joined American Hockey League in 1938 and has the honor of being among the longest and oldest existing teams in the League. The team is also among the most successful teams of the AHL and is the back-to-back winners of the Calder Cup. Hershey Bears tickets are a commodity which is a matter of coming into the market and selling out as they are the highest selling.

The team is owned by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company and is a member of Eastern Conference and plays in the East Division of the AHL. Washington Capitals of the NHL and South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL are the top affiliates of the team. From 1932 to 1933, the team was called Hershey B’ars which changed to Hershey Chocolate B’ars from1933 to 1934. The name later changed to Hershey B’ars in 1934 and lasted till 1936 and the name was Hershey Bears was decided in 1936 which hasn’t changed to the present day.

Hershey Bears is the highest winning team of the AHL as it has won seven regular season titles, fifteen division championships and 22 conference championships. Bears have won eleven Calder Cups, a record which has not been broken by any team. 2006 was the year in which the team played its 5000^th game on 20^th December. The 2009-2010 season of the Bears marked their participation in the 22^nd Final Series which is also a record of the League. The team wears a uniform of burgundy, black, white, gold and silver and the fun is brought in the games by Coco, the team mascot which is a brown bear. From 1936 to 2002, the home arena of the team was Hersheypark Arena which changed to Giant Center in 2002 which is the home game of the team till the present day.

Giant Center was opened to public in 2002 and is a state-of-the-art, multi-purpose stadium. Being home to the Hershey Bears, the arena can seat more than 10,000 spectators for a game of ice hockey. The arena also hosts many other events and a good many eventful moments of the Bears has been associated with Giant Center.

Hershey Bears, being the most successful team of the AHL and has produced a lot of excellent players which has made it to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Frank Mathers and Ralph “Cooney” Weiland are the Hockey Hall of Famers. Willie Marshall, Frank Mathers, Mike Nykoluk, Gilles Mayer, Tim Tookey, Bruce Boudreau and Mitch Lamoureux are the AHL Hall of Famers which has made the team proud. The current roster of the team consists of the best and the most talented players who work for maintaining the good name of the team. The current roster of the team includes Keith Aucoin, Jay Beagle, Francois Bouchard, Trevor Bruess, Sean Collins, Jared DeMichiel, Brain Fahey, Todd Ford, Andrew Gordon, Kyle Greentree, Braden Holtby, Andrew Joudrey, Boyd Kane, Johann Kroll, Dmitri Kugryshev, Maxime Lacroix, Patrick McNeill, Zach Miskovic, Lawrence Nycholat, Phil Oreskovic, Steve Pinizotto, Joel Rechlicz, Ashton Rome, Dany Sabourin, Sheldon Souray, Patrick Wellar, Brian Willsie and Dylan Yeo.

For enjoying the best games of ice hockey, fans always go for Hershey Bears tickets because they know what fun the games hold for them. For the excellent performance over the years, the team has won a number of awards, both as a team and as individual players. Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award, Hap Holmes Memorial Award, Eddie Shore Award, Willie Marshall Award, Les Cunningham Award and Louis A. R. Pieri Memorial Award are some of the awards won by the Bears. Fans love the games of the Bears as they are always so much thrilling and exciting and not to mention all the memorable moments which happen in the games at the Giant Center. The team led by Mark French and Andrew Joudrey plays to their full potential in the ice rink and makes the fans proud. There are but so many reasons for fans to buy Hershey Bears tickets when the game season is on!