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| Sat, Feb 28th, 2009 5:07:00 pm |
Where's Snake Pliskin when you need him? The Bears completed a stretch of five games within the boundary of New York Friday night in just over two weeks, and won exactly one of them. Only a win in Syracuse on President's Day gave the Chocolate and White anything more than one point in the standings, and suddenly Binghamton has won ...Continued |
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Fri, Feb 27th, 2009 6:08:00 pm |
Greetings from Binghamton, where we're setting up shop here in press row for the second time in three nights. At least we were afforded the luxury of being able to keep a good part of our equipment here. No sense in putting the radio gear on the bus to come right back here tonight. But Hershey needs a different result ...Continued |
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| Thu, Feb 26th, 2009 1:34:00 pm |
News from Bears headquarters before we get to Randy Rock's latest from Washington. Kris Mayotte will draw the start Friday for Hershey at Binghamton according to the head coach's office. I'm back from practice, which was optional at Hersheypark Arena this morning, and the team held a meeting following the skate at the request of Bob Woods. Here's a few ...Continued |
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Wed, Feb 25th, 2009 3:38:00 pm |
This is a sign we're going to see a lot of over the next three days, as the Bears travel up I-81 both Wednesday and Friday to meet the Binghamton Senators at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena. Face-off is at 7:05 p.m. this evening. Following the most dramatic win of the season Saturday night at home against Philadelphia, the boys ...Continued |
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| Tue, Feb 24th, 2009 4:55:00 pm |
As the Caps prepare to meet the Flyers this evening, a couple of programming notes to DVR this week to watch at your leisure. First, Mike Green will be featured on NHL Network's "A Day in the Life" this Saturday at 4:30 and again Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. Filmed just two weeks ago, the show provides an up-close look ...Continued |
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Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 5:13:00 pm |
Ah yes, your TOBHS crew in the middle of prepping for Monday's show. If you ever doubted that Michael Parks was the brains of our little operation, this photo should verify that for you. That's him in front, with big Francois behind him thinking great thoughts no doubt. The show was packed today, with Doug Yingst joining us to talk ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 1:16:00 pm |
CAPS BOUNCE BACK VERSUS PENS5-2 WIN PUTS THEM TWO POINTS AHEAD OF DEVILS by: Randy "Rock" Johnson JohnWaltonHockey.com(WASHINGTON DC)---After Friday night’s lackluster 4-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at Verizon Center, the Washington Capitals were looking to use Sunday afternoon’s home-ice match-up against the Pittsburgh Penguins as a way to get back into the victory column. The Pens came into ...Continued |
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Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 9:49:00 am |
For those of you that are part of Facebook, we at JWH wanted to bring to your attention that we're now a part of FB's networked blogs. If you're on Facebook (or even if you're not), check out our blog page and you can become a follower of JohnWaltonHockey via Facebook. You can meet your fellow readers here and make ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 9:38:00 am |
AHL linesman Bob Goodman will join us later on today on "The Old Barn Hockey Show" to talk about the life and times of working the games on the ice, and he'll also be talking about his upcoming program about the history of the Hershey Bears coming up in early March. We're also trying to get international superstar Doug Yingst ...Continued |
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Sun, Feb 22nd, 2009 4:35:00 pm |
Congratulations to the Hershey Jr. Bears Quebec team, who on this Sunday have defeated the Colorado Jr. Avalanche 3-1 at Pepsi Colisee to claim the program's second Quebec City International Hockey tournament championship in nine years! Here's my press release about it. Doug Yingst's team will be back in central PA around 4:00 a.m. Monday morning, and I'm sure we'll ...Continued |
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| Sun, Feb 22nd, 2009 12:46:00 am |
Here's the link to my call of Aucoin's game-winning goal. We crashed the system the last time we did this, so if for some reason this doesn't work, send me an e-mail at bearsradio@hotmail.com and I'll send it to you. An incredible moment at a time the Bears needed it. http://www.orbitfiles.com/ ...Continued |
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Sun, Feb 22nd, 2009 12:18:00 am |
Two wins out of three games this week doesn't really tell the story as Keith Aucoin scored in my opinion the most dramatic goal of the season in a 5-4 overtime win over the Philadelphia Phantoms Saturday night. Congratulations to Kris Mayotte, who earned his first AHL win Saturday.The Bears are done for the week, but Washington has a big ...Continued |
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| Sat, Feb 21st, 2009 5:45:00 pm |
Hoping for a few celebration scenes like this one Saturday at Giant Center, as the Bears continue to scuttle along through this month of February. Having dropped five of its last six while the Penguins have rattled off nine wins in a row, falling out of first place is a potential reality tonight if things don't go the way of ...Continued |
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Fri, Feb 20th, 2009 5:20:00 pm |
Just getting settled in here at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, where honestly it's just nice to be inside. A howling wind accompanied by almost three inches of snow (and it's still coming down) is what we've been enduring all day today, so it will be nice to get back to the relative warmth of central PA tomorrow for the ...Continued |
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| Fri, Feb 20th, 2009 11:19:00 am |
Hanging out at the morning skate here in Rochester as the Bears prepare to take on the Amerks here Friday. Four inches of snow has fallen since our arrival, and the wind chill is just about at zero. Fantastic. I'll have more later on this afternoon about tonight's game, but for now, enjoy Randy Rock's latest Washington installment as the ...Continued |
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Thu, Feb 19th, 2009 1:17:00 pm |
The date was November 30, 2007. I was just arriving at my desk at Giant Center when the phone rang. It was Grady Whittenburg, the current voice of the Binghamton Senators and at the time the play-by-play man for the Elmira Jackals in the ECHL. Grady and I have been friends for years, and has even been on the air ...Continued |
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| Thu, Feb 19th, 2009 12:04:00 am |
I'll have a lot more on this in a little while, we're just now heading out of town on the bus toward Rochester. Former Bears defenseman Jonathan Paiement is among four Albany River Rats players hospitalized in Pittsfield, MA after a bus crash overnight on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Casey Borer, Joe Jensen, Nicolas Blanchard and broadcaster (and good friend) John ...Continued |
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Wed, Feb 18th, 2009 12:19:00 am |
Assistant coach Todd Reirden has been named interim head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, replacing at least for the moment Dan Bylsma. As reported here yesterday, we hear that Pittsburgh is allowing Bylsma to keep the seat warm for now, but that other options available to Mario Lemieux and the boys are being explored. The name I've heard now from ...Continued |
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| Tue, Feb 17th, 2009 12:39:00 am |
Following a big win in Syracuse Monday night to hold off the charging Penguins for the moment, the Bears now get some good news from D.C. on this Tuesday. Karl Alzner and Jay Beagle are both on their way to Hershey. Both are expected to be available when Hershey heads to Rochester Friday night. On another subject, I heard today ...Continued |
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Mon, Feb 16th, 2009 5:42:00 pm |
We've made it to Syracuse, where the Bears are preparing to meet the Crunch tonight. Believe it or not, this is the first time we've been here at the War Memorial since October 14, 2006, which was just the third game of the 2006-07 season. Strange when the Crunch are just four hours up the road, and it's been 28 ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 16th, 2009 1:26:00 pm |
We're on I-81 heading north to Syracuse for tonight's game against the Crunch, where the Bears need a victory in a bad way. Not only is the current four-game losing streak the longest of the season, Hershey has not lost five straight games since joining forces with Washington for the start of the 2005-06 season. It's a long ride to ...Continued |
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Sun, Feb 15th, 2009 11:30:00 am |
A couple of things I wanted to post here before I got to Randy "Rock" Johnson's latest installment on this Sunday. I mentioned this story on the air in the pregame last night, but I wanted to provide the link for it for those who didn't hear it or wanted to see to full write-up. Referee Jeff Smith, a favorite ...Continued |
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| Sat, Feb 14th, 2009 5:21:00 pm |
The Bears return home looking for offense and looking to right the ship after three straight regulation losses. Friday's loss in Binghamton marked only the second time all season that the Chocolate and White had dropped three straight. To date, they have not dropped four in a row. Bob Woods has elected to give Kris Mayotte his first Hershey start ...Continued |
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Fri, Feb 13th, 2009 5:50:00 pm |
Hello and howdy from Broome County, where the Bears are about to take on the Binghamton Senators for the first time up here this season. The B-Sens have already made their four trips to Giant Center in 2008-09, and we're about to be here early and often. Three more after tonight, and two more before February comes to a close. ...Continued |
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| Thu, Feb 12th, 2009 9:59:00 pm |
Former Hershey defenseman Jamie Rivers has been named the captain of the Chicago Wolves. Gotta believe that locker room is a pretty fun place to be. Here's the story from www.theahl.com Wolves name Rivers captain The Chicago Wolves have named defenseman Jamie Rivers as team captain for the 2008-09 season. The 33-year-old blueliner becomes the sixth player and second defenseman ...Continued |
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Wed, Feb 11th, 2009 6:20:00 pm |
The Hamilton Bulldogs, the franchise that denied the Bears a tenth Calder Cup title two years ago, return to Giant Center Wednesday night. It's the beginning of a stretch of four games in six nights for the Hershey, with road games in Binghamton and Syracuse sandwiching a home game Saturday with Norfolk.Here's what's up tonight:-Goaltender Daren Machesney will make his ...Continued |
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| Wed, Feb 11th, 2009 11:03:00 am |
I'll have more later on this afternoon about tonight's matchup with Hamilton, but Jay Beagle has been recalled this morning to Washington. The recall likely means that if Alexander Semin can't go tonight, Beagle will make his NHL debut against the New York Rangers. Washington's presser is below... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 11, 2009 Capitals Recall Jay Beagle from ...Continued |
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Tue, Feb 10th, 2009 11:47:00 am |
In what sure looks like his first official step toward a return trip to the New York Rangers, Sean Avery today was assigned by the Dallas Stars to the Hartford Wolf Pack. I hope Pack head coach Ken Gernander has a bottle of aspirin or other pain reliever close by. Second chance for Avery? I have to believe it's more ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 9th, 2009 8:45:00 am |
Coming up later on this Monday on "The Old Barn Hockey Show", Flyers TV analyst and Versus studio anaylst Keith Jones will join us on the show to talk Flyers and NHL stuff. We're back in studio today, you can catch all the action on the podcast after 5:00 p.m. today. For those new here, you can access the podcast ...Continued |
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Sun, Feb 8th, 2009 2:02:00 pm |
The Bears welcome the Portland Pirates to Giant Center this afternoon, the only time we'll see the top affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres in central PA this season barring a playoff matchup. Here's what's going on today. -Kris Mayotte was thisclose to making his Bears debut today against the Pirates, but that will no longer happen. Goaltender Michal Neuvirth was ...Continued |
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| Sat, Feb 7th, 2009 3:10:00 pm |
I mentioned it here briefly before, but we're elated to welcome former Bears PA announcer and central PA radio personality Randy "Rock" Johnson to the JWH team. Rock will be handling all things Washington, expanding our coverage with the Capitals and the NHL. Welcome Rock, glad to have you. Here is his first installment from down D.C. way...BEARS NATION, IT’S ...Continued |
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Fri, Feb 6th, 2009 11:07:00 pm |
The Bears won Friday, defeating the Phantoms 5-3 in a game that honestly shouldn't have been that close. It took the opening moments of the third period before John Paddock's team even registered its 10th shot of the game. Without Bryan Helmer, Karl Alzner and Alexandre Giroux, Hershey dominated in winning its 34th game of the season. As I said ...Continued |
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| Fri, Feb 6th, 2009 6:16:00 pm |
Greetings from Philadelphia, where the Bears are about to take on the Phantoms. It would seem that a lot of Bears fans have decided to take one last look at the Spectrum, or at least those that may not want to brave the final game in this facility in April. After tonight, April 10 is it. I was just out ...Continued |
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Fri, Feb 6th, 2009 11:32:00 am |
Given a pretty rough display of defense last night against Los Angeles, this isn't too surprising. The Capitals have called up Karl Alzner for tomorrow's game against Florida. Bet everything that he plays tomorrow, and that someone on the back line that played last night sits. Honestly, I wonder if we've seen the last of Karl here. He appears to ...Continued |
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| Fri, Feb 6th, 2009 10:07:00 am |
I'm back from Washington, where I was a witness to a rather ugly Los Angeles victory at Verizon Center 5-4. Give the Caps credit for this much: they made it exciting at the end by scoring late, but it was a disturbing defensive effort last night in front of Jose Theodore. But on the subject of goaltending, this is more ...Continued |
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Thu, Feb 5th, 2009 9:36:00 am |
For those who haven't seen it yet, here is Bruce Boudreau's video from the AHL Hall-of-Fame ceremonies in Worcester. ...Continued |
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| Thu, Feb 5th, 2009 8:29:00 am |
I'm heading to Washington tonight to see the Caps and the Kings from Verizon Center, so news from the game will be posted here as it happens. In the meantime, it would seem that Allentown is where the Brooks Brothers would like to eventually put the Phantoms in a story in the papers out that way. http://www.mcall.com/sports/hockey/all-hockey-phantoms-allentown-020409-cn,0,7378231.story I think it ...Continued |
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Wed, Feb 4th, 2009 5:32:00 pm |
It's official. The Philadelphia Flyers have sold the Phantoms to the Brooks Brothers out of Pittsburgh, ending a run that began with the Flyers pulling out of Hershey to run their own AHL team back in 1996. Where the franchise will end up is up for much debate, but what is known is that they won't have to be near ...Continued |
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| Wed, Feb 4th, 2009 2:53:00 pm |
The Binghamton Senators have named former Ottawa assistant coach Curtis Hunt (pictured left) as the fourth head coach in franchise history. The press release follows below.Also today, the Bears had a new goaltender in town. Kris Mayotte, who most recently has tended the nets in Johnstown with the Chiefs, was signed by Hershey today to a professional tryout contract. With ...Continued |
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Tue, Feb 3rd, 2009 10:28:00 am |
On Saturday night, I dropped a hint that something might be in the works in Philadelphia regarding the last regular season game ever to be played at the historic arena. This is what I was talking about. Call the Phantoms and get in on this, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime event. The Hershey Bears are closing the Spectrum. FOR IMMEDIATE ...Continued |
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| Tue, Feb 3rd, 2009 8:52:00 am |
Our thanks to Kip Brennan and Sean Collins for joining us Monday on "The Old Barn Hockey Show" and thanks to those who came out to see us at Fire Alley. We still have two more live shows before the end of the season, more info on those coming up later this month. Click on the podcast link on the ...Continued |
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Tue, Feb 3rd, 2009 12:33:00 am |
Goaltender Michal Neuvirth has been recalled to Washington as the Capitals prepare to face the Devils on Tuesday. Sounds like he'll be backing up Jose Theodore for a couple of games, but could very well return before Friday's game in Philadelphia. Neuvirth becomes the third goaltender to be recalled from Hershey this season, and the sixth overall to dress for ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 2nd, 2009 3:17:00 pm |
A record setting month was more than enough Monday for Alexandre Giroux to claim CCM AHL Player of the Month honors for January. 18 goals and 27 points was plenty enough to bring home the hardware. He'll be honored at an upcoming Bears home game, and I'm sure he'll get a huge ovation when it happens. We may never see ...Continued |
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Mon, Feb 2nd, 2009 7:58:00 am |
A reminder on this Monday that "The Old Barn Hockey Show" goes on location tonight at Fire Alley in Hershey. As I said over the weekend, it should be a safe working environment for Frank and myself with Kip Brennan among our guests. Look forward to seeing everyone out at the show later on. The Bears are back on the ...Continued |
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| Mon, Feb 2nd, 2009 12:46:00 am |
It's a big Monday for news out of the southern tier. The Ottawa Senators have promoted Binghamton head coach Cory Clouston to the big club, firing Craig Hartsburg in the process. The question, not answered immediately in the team's press release, is who will take over in Bingo? Mike Busniuk has been the only assistant coach in team history, but ...Continued |
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