Speculation: Hershey Bears/South Carolina Stingrays 2019-2020 Vol. 1

[hb12xchamps]

Needs to be said: the Bears home unis are fantastic - excellent use of less-is-more.

Those are actually the practice jerseys. They always use those in preseason.

Did he ever return? We need this highlights link posted here after each game this year. Great production value. A link to the lineup would be cool too. I expect a lot more action in this thread than EVER this year.

Was that Lujo whipping that guy’s ass?!

The Bears social media team definitely stepped their game up this year so far.

It wasn’t LuJo, it was Kale Kessy who’s known to Ben a bruiser

 

[Marshall]

Those are actually the practice jerseys. They always use those in preseason.

The Bears social media team definitely stepped their game up this year so far.

It wasn’t LuJo, it was Kale Kessy who’s known to Ben a bruiser

Ah, thanks.

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Do they have a veteran spot for Djoos?

 

[GoCaps2004]

Look great, but the shoulders are missing something. That’s a lot of blank space.

They look like practice jerseys

 

[hb12xchamps]

Casey Bailey was released from his PTO

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Casey Bailey was released from his PTO

Boyd or Leipsic soon to take his place?

Brendan Leipsic (LW) - Mike Sgarbossa (C) - Matt Moulson (LW/RW)
Joe Snively (LW) - Philippe Maillet (C) - Brett Leason (RW)
Shane Gersich (LW) - Garrett Pilon (C) - Beck Malenstyn (LW/RW)
Axel Jonsson Fjällby (LW) - Riley Sutter (C/RW) - Liam O'Brien (C/LW)
Kale Kessy (LW), Brian Pinho (C), Chris McCarthy (C)

 

[hb12xchamps]

Boyd or Leipsic soon to take his place?

No idea. He scored in the preseason game yesterday but I haven’t watched any of those games to really evaluate his performances. AHL preseason games are basically ECHL games at this point. They used to have tons of scraps but even those are gone

 

[hb12xchamps]

Everyone will be able to watch both of Hershey's games this weekend. Their home opener is Saturday versus Wilkes-Barre so that should be a solid game. Sunday they play the Providence Bruins. Two games against solid teams to open the season.

Judging off of the updated training camp roster, looks like Hershey's veterans are Matt Moulson, Mike Sgarbossa, Liam O'Brien, Christian Djoos and Erik Burgdoerfer. They are in compliance with the veteran rule for each game if all of those guys play.

Hershey sent down Ed Wittchow, Tommy Hughes, Tariq Hammond and Parker Milner. The Milner send down makes me think one of Samsonov or Copley will be sent down and Vitek gets the net for the weekend baring any injury.

My projected lines:

Forwards
Snively-Maillet-Moulson
O'Brien-Sgarbossa-Leason
Gersich-Pilon-Pinho
Malenstyn-Weis-AJF

X-Kessy, McCarthy, Whitney
Injured: Kody Clark, Riley Sutter

Defensemen (Any combo of these 6 will play)
Djoos-Burgdoerfer
LuJo-Williams
Alexeyev-Hobbs

X-Nardella, Geisser (probably one or both rotate in for Sunday's game)
Injured: Bindulis

They should make one more round of cuts to send a forward or two to SC and possibly a D if Washington reassigns anyone else.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Explain the veteran rule please.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Explain the veteran rule please.

Veterans are guys that have 320+ AHL/NHL/European League games played and Exempt Veterans are guys with 260-319 AHL/NHL/European League games played. I believe the rule is four Veterans and one Exempt Veteran per game. Goalies don't count and exempt veterans count as veterans if you don't have enough guys that have the 320+ games played threshold. So basically each team can play 5 players with 260+ games of experience.

 

[Marshall]

Really like the looks of those d pairings - A Djoos/Burgdoefer top pairing seems particularly strong.

Too bad about Bindulis' injury - guy can't seem to get any traction.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Really like the looks of those d pairings - A Djoos/Burgdoefer top pairing seems particularly strong.

Too bad about Bindulis' injury - guy can't seem to get any traction.

That should be one of the top pairings in turn league if they are indeed paired together. The only question mark on those pairs is Hobbs, who hasn’t had a great showing in the preseason games. Maybe Nardella or AA slides in to play RD

 

[Marshall]

That should be one of the top pairings in turn league if they are indeed paired together. The only question mark on those pairs is Hobbs, who hasn’t had a great showing in the preseason games. Maybe Nardella or AA slides in to play RD

IIRC the biggest knock on Hobbs is his skating, no?

 

[hb12xchamps]

IIRC the biggest knock on Hobbs is his skating, no?

That and the inability to translate the offensive game that he showcased in Juniors. Even a slight uptick in offensive production would be huge from him. His PP time has been pretty uninspiring also when he has been in Hershey FWIW

 

[Calicaps]

Have to think MF gets sent down once Kemps is back in DC. Any guess on the pairings after that?

 

[hb12xchamps]

Casey Bailey was probably released from his PTO due to there being too many Vets if Boyd or Stephenson get reassigned.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Have to think MF gets sent down once Kemps is back in DC. Any guess on the pairings after that?

We'll probably get a better idea of that after this weekend, especially if they have some of the LD guys playing their offside. There's too many LD in Hershey as it is

 

[hb12xchamps]

Tonight’s lineup. Not a fan of the graphic.

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Alexeyev over Djoos. As expected

 

[Dr John Carlson]

I'm just not a fan at all of Twitter people who put their projected lines in graphics rather than text. Not doing any favours to those of us with very weak data plans.

 

[tenken00]

Tonight’s lineup. Not a fan of the graphic.

That graphic is like a big giant chocolate bar that I want to take a bite out of.

 

[GoCaps2004]

Johansen isn't in south carolina yet, I know at least one poster here who has got to be confused about that!

 

[hb12xchamps]

Much rather have the graphic in line form, instead of grouped out by position but oh well first world problems right?

Alexeyev and Djoos with the first period goals. Pilon with an absolute beauty of a spin o rama pass to find a wide open AA back side to open the scoring.

Fist PP unit featured Moulson, Pilon, Sgarbossa, Djoos and AA. Second unit was Mailett, Snively, Leason, Pinho and LuJo.

First PK unit was Malenstyn and Pinho. Second PK looked like AJF and LOB.

Best line so far is the LOB-Pilon-Pinho line. They have dominated offensive zone play.

This team will be very good once they gel and play a bunch of games together. Potential is through the roof

 

[hb12xchamps]

Alexeyev over Djoos. As expected

I really wouldn’t pay too much attention to D pairings. Hershey rotates them and there really hasn’t been a “first pair” so far.

 

[Sam Spade]

Alexeyev with a goal on his first ever professional shift.