I am not a fan of winter but with winter my favorite sports starts, hockey season. We are a hockey family having season tickets to the Hershey Bears (yes Klaus the place they make chocolate), go to Washington D.C. to see our Caps play and have center ice on the television. I easily watch between 200 and 300 hockey games in a season. This year with the great talent we have in Hershey we expect to win our 10TH Calder Cup and with the talent in Washington we will compete for the Stanley Cup again this year. When we go to Washington we feel like we are still in Hershey with all the former Bears that play on the team and it makes the NHL games even more special. Just last year while our sons played hockey at Twin Ponds I sat and talked with Coach Boudreau about the Bears for some time, little did I know in a couple of weeks he would be coaching the Caps and be named the coach of the year in the NHL.
The Bears opened the season on the road and won all four games, coming back to the Giant center they won the home opener 7-1 before falling the next night to the baby Pens. These were taken during the Pens game the first photo is of Chris Bourque, he has already gotten into a Caps game this year. The second photograph is Graham Mink, Mink played for the Bears when we won our last Calder Cup and after two seasons is back where he belongs, in Hershey. The last photo is our number one goalie Daren Machesney, if "Cheese" plays like he did last season, the cup is ours.
Now if the Giant center would just clean the glass once and awhile, maybe I could get some better shots.
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GO BEARS!!!!!!!!
Chris Borque, as in Ray Borque's son? I'd heard he was playing in the AHL now, but I didn't know where.
Unfortunately our AHL affiliate is several hundred miles away in Albany, so we don't get to see them play. But the way injuries have piled up on the Canes the last three years, we've gotten to see what most of them can do at the NHL level anyway.
Oh, you guys are gonna love having Keith Aucoin. During the late stages of last season he, Ryan Bayda (another River Rat) and Scott Walker were arguably the most consistent forward line the Canes could put out. The only knock against him is that he's a little on the small side, but he's quick and tough as a cockroach.
they said cock....roach How bout dem Bears Skinn
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