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Matt Strome scored the game-winning goal 66 seconds into overtime, and the Hershey Bears defeated Coachella Valley 5-4 in Game 6 of the Calder Cup Finals. HERSHEY – As the Hershey Bears marched deeper and deeper into the Calder Cup Playoffs, looking to defend their 2023 title, the obstacles started to pile up. Injuries depleted their defense.

A comfortable 3-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals evaporated into a tense Game 7. At the doorstep of their 13th Calder Cup championship, the Bears met, for the second consecutive season, a hungry and high-octane Coachella Valley Firebirds team that played pedal-down from puck drop. But each time Coachella Valley tested the Bears in the Calder Cup Finals, the defending champions mustered a response, and in Game 6 Monday night, the Bears roared back in historic fashion.



Pierrick Dubé scored a hat trick, including a pair of game-tying goals, and Matt Strome netted the winning goal 66 seconds into overtime to give the Hershey Bears a 5-4 victory and clinch the club’s 13th Calder Cup championship in front of a record crowd of 11,013 fans at the Giant Center. “It’s the way you want to draw it up every year,” said Hershey forward Alex Limoges. “It’s a special feeling to win it at home.

These fans have been amazing all season, and tonight the turnout was incredible. The energy, we really rallied off that, so to do this in front of them was the best result.” Limoges, the former Penn State captain and first Penn Stat.

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