P-Bruins Drop Season Finale To Hershey, Announce First Round Playoff Schedule With WBS

Providence Bruins Press Release

Hershey, PA – The Providence Bruins fell to the Hershey Bears Saturday night 3-0 in their regular season finale. The P-Bruins were shutout for the third time this season as Zane McIntyre got the start in goal.

The Bears opened up the scoring in the first period while on their first power play of the game. At 13:34, Christian Thomas took the puck in the right wing corner and sent a centering pass to Stanislav Galiev in front. With no shot available, Galiev backhanded a pass to Jakub Vrana alone to his right and he found the open net to give Hershey a 1-0 into the first intermission.

The second period was a struggle for Providence and it showed on the score board. While the P-Bruins were on a power play at 4:01, Nathan Walker and Dustin Gazley created a shorthanded break. After entering the offensive zone, Walker put a shot on McIntyre from the near hash that he saved with his pads, but Gazley was able sneak one by off the rebound to put the Bears up 2-0. Just 65 seconds later off a faceoff win in their defensive zone, Hershey was able to use transition to gain a 3-0 lead. Christian Thomas led Hampus Gustafsson up the left side and into his offensive zone, and Gustafsson sent a cross ice pass to Mattias Backman. Backman found the back of the net and the Bears entered the break up 3-0.

Vitek Vanecek did the rest in net for Hershey as he shut down any and all P-Bruin chances. Providence, who rested some of their key players in the game, was shutout by Vanecek for the second time this season as they fell 3-0.

McIntyre stopped 17-20 shots while Vanecek stopped all 28 shots he faced. Providence was 0-3 on the power play and 3-3 on the penalty kill. Providence has now secured the four seed in the Atlantic Division and will take on the one seeded Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs. Tickets for round one games at the Dunk will go on sale Monday at 10am, so stay tuned to ProvidenceBruins.com for the full first round schedule.

Providence, RI – The Providence Bruins, Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins and the American Hockey League have announced the schedule for their first round match-up in the 2017 Calder Cup Playoffs. The P-Bruins, who are the lower seed, will begin this best-of-five series at the Dunkin Donuts Center with game one on April 21 and game two on April 23.

The full schedule of games are as follows:

Game 1 – Friday, April 21, 7:05pm @ Providence

Game 2 – Sunday, April 23, 3:05pm @ Providence

Game 3 – Thursday, April 27, 7:05pm @ Wilkes-Barre Scranton

Game 4* – Friday, April 28, 7:05pm @ Wilkes-Barre Scranton

Game 5* – Sunday, Aril 30, 3:05pm @ Wilkes-Barre Scranton

*if necessary

Tickets for games one and two will go on sale Monday at 10am on ProvidenceBruins.com.