AHL Morning Skate: May 10

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Game 3 – 3:00 ET, AHL Live (Series tied, 1-1)
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Due to scheduling conflicts at the XL Center, the Hartford Wolf Pack host the next two games of their Eastern Conference semifinal series at the DCU Center in Worcester, beginning with Game 3 this afternoon… Hershey evened the best-of-seven at 1-1 with a 6-4 victory in Game 2 on Friday night, scoring the final four goals of the game after trailing by two in the second period… Jakub Vrana (2-3-5), a first-round pick by Washington (13th overall) in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, broke a 4-4 tie with 1:17 left in the second… Tim Kennedy (3-4-7) and Jim O’Brien (3-1-4) each scored twice for the Bears, and Nate Schmidt (2-5-7) added a goal and two assists… Pheonix Copley (3-1, 1.83, .946) stopped all nine shots he faced in relief of Philipp Grubauer (1-1, 3.30, .901), who allowed four goals on 17 shots… Chris Bourque (3-3-6) and Mat Bodie (2-1-3) each picked up a goal and an assist for the Wolf Pack, who scored four goals in a game for the first time this postseason… Yann Danis (4-3, 1.75, .942), who had allowed just nine goals on 212 shots over his first six starts in these playoffs, gave up five on 28 shots in Game 2… Hershey, 1-for-3 on the power play in Game 2, is 8-for-25 (32.0 percent) this postseason… Hartford’s power play is 2-for-6 in the series after going 3-for-20 in the first round vs. Providence… The Bears have already won two games at the DCU Center this postseason, en route to their first-round victory over the Worcester Sharks.

Eastern Conference Semifinals – Series “J” (best-of-7)
2-Hershey Bears vs. 3-Hartford Wolf Pack
Game 1 – Wed., May 6 – Hartford 2, HERSHEY 1 (OT)
Game 2 – Fri., May 8 – HERSHEY 6, Hartford 4
Game 3 – Sun., May 10 – Hershey vs. Hartford, 3:00 (at Worcester, Mass.)
Game 4 – Mon., May 11 – Hershey vs. Hartford, 7:00 (at Worcester, Mass.)
Game 5 – Wed., May 13 – Hartford at Hershey, 7:00
*Game 6 – Fri., May 15 – Hershey at Hartford, 7:00
*Game 7 – Sun., May 17 – Hartford at Hershey, 5:00
   *if necessary… All times Eastern

May 8 – UTICA 2, Oklahoma City 1 (Alexandre Grenier, 3:32)
May 7 – Oklahoma City 2, UTICA 1 (Curtis Hamilton, 60:16)
May 6 – MANCHESTER 4, W-B/Scranton 3 (Zach O’Brien, 44:13)
May 6 – Hartford 2, HERSHEY 1 (Chris Bourque, 16:47)
May 1 – Chicago 4, UTICA 3 (Joel Edmundson, 2:19)
*May 1 – HARTFORD 3, Providence 2 (Tommy Hughes, 4:35)
*Apr. 29 – ROCKFORD 3, Texas 2 (Stephen Johns, 0:23)
*Apr. 29 – Oklahoma City 2, SAN ANTONIO 1 (Jujhar Khaira, 5:01)
Apr. 29 – UTICA 2, Chicago 1 (Darren Archibald, 10:58)
Apr. 26 – PROVIDENCE 2, Hartford 1 (Seth Griffith, 42:00)
Apr. 25 – OKLAHOMA CITY 4, San Antonio 3 (Connor Jones, 4:01)
Apr. 22 – Utica 3, CHICAGO 2 (Bobby Sanguinetti, 23:10)
  *series clincher