With no coaching position available to offer him, but in need of a new trainer, Bears' GM Frank Mathers offered him that job. Head Coach: Spencer Carbery (37-18-0-7) Over the next sixty-six seasons, the Bears played a remarkable total of 2,280 regular season and playoff games at the Hersheypark Arena, which served as their home from 1936 to 2002. They rolled through the playoffs defeating The next season, the Bears bounced back. The official mascot of the Bears is a brown bear called "Coco". The current third jersey features a bear-head as the sweater crest and has cocoa brown trim. The 2009–10 Bears won a franchise-record 12 consecutive games and notched a 24-game win streak at the Giant Center. In 1977 Hershey became the only original AHL hockey club to have continuously iced a team in the same city since the league's inaugural season as a fully merged league when the Defenseman Henry J. The first such formal hockey game ever played in Hershey took place on February 18, 1931, when Penn A.C. and The popularity of these amateur hockey matches prompted chocolate-maker and amusement park-operator On December 19, 1936, the newly renamed EAHL Bears also moved from the confines of the Ice Palace (where they had to play on a small, 60x170-foot rink) into the newly constructed 7,286-seat On June 28, 1938, the Can-Am and IHL formally merged into a single league under the IAHL name. The shoulder logos feature a stylized bear-foot print. The first such formal hockey game ever played in Hershey took place on February 18, 1931, when Penn A.C. and Villanova University faced off in the 1,900-seat Hershey Ice Palace. The club joined the newly formed Tri-State Hockey League with teams from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlantic City. The Bears made a very good account of themselves in their first IAHL campaign, winning the West Division with a 31–18–5 record—the first of 16 regular-season division titles. The Hershey Bears Hockey Club is owned and operated by the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company (HERCO), formerly known as Hershey Estates, an entity wholly owned and administered by the Hershey Trust Company. With Murray's promotion to Washington a month later elevated Inness the eleventh coach in the Bears' history. The 2009-2010 3rd jersey featured the same color/striping pattern as the home jersey, but no logo was present on the main body of the jersey.
The home uniform includes a white jersey with alternating burgundy and black horizontal stripes and burgundy shoulders. Inness would remain behind the Hershey bench until December, 1984, when Frank Mathers returned to that post on an interim basis for the first time since 1973 and coached the club until then recently retired Hall of Fame Flyer winger Bill Barber took over for the final sixteen games of the season.The 1984-85 season was also the first of a dozen year affiliation with the Philadelphia Flyers who shared the club with the Boston Bruins that year before taking over as the sole parent club the next season and remained so through 1995-96. Find scores, statistics, photos, videos and join the forum discussions at PennLive.com. Only the Original Six National Hockey League teams are older than the Hershey Bears. Cherry's first On December 20, 2006, the Bears played their 5,000th regular season game at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. The previous logo used a silhouette of a skating bear with a hockey stick in brown centered in a white, ovular shield outlined in brown. On December 19, 1936, the newly renamed Bears also moved from the confines of the Ice Palace (where they had to play on a small, 60x170-foot rink) into the newly constructed 7,286-seat Hersheypark Arena (then known as the "Hershey Sports Arena") built immediately adjacent to the older venue.
The home uniform includes a white jersey with alternating burgundy and black horizontal stripes and burgundy shoulders. Inness would remain behind the Hershey bench until December, 1984, when Frank Mathers returned to that post on an interim basis for the first time since 1973 and coached the club until then recently retired Hall of Fame Flyer winger Bill Barber took over for the final sixteen games of the season.The 1984-85 season was also the first of a dozen year affiliation with the Philadelphia Flyers who shared the club with the Boston Bruins that year before taking over as the sole parent club the next season and remained so through 1995-96. Find scores, statistics, photos, videos and join the forum discussions at PennLive.com. Only the Original Six National Hockey League teams are older than the Hershey Bears. Cherry's first On December 20, 2006, the Bears played their 5,000th regular season game at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. The previous logo used a silhouette of a skating bear with a hockey stick in brown centered in a white, ovular shield outlined in brown. On December 19, 1936, the newly renamed Bears also moved from the confines of the Ice Palace (where they had to play on a small, 60x170-foot rink) into the newly constructed 7,286-seat Hersheypark Arena (then known as the "Hershey Sports Arena") built immediately adjacent to the older venue.