PALM DESERT, Calif. (theahl.com) … Enjoying on house ice for the primary time in 18 days, the Coachella Valley Firebirds took a 2-1 collection lead within the 2024 Calder Cup Finals with a 6-2 victory over the Hershey Bears on Tuesday night time.
Sport 4 might be performed Thursday at Acrisure Enviornment (10 ET/7 PT, AHLTV, NHL Community).
Firebirds captain Max McCormick scored twice within the opening 6:03 of the sport, and added an empty-netter with 1:36 remaining for the primary hat trick in a Calder Cup Finals recreation since 2009.
Hershey rallied to tie the sport at 2-2 on objectives by Henrik Rybinski and Alex Limoges, however Lleyton Roed’s first professional playoff purpose 4:06 into the second interval put Coachella Valley in entrance for good.
Shane Wright notched a purpose and two assists and Kole Lind added two assists for the Firebirds. Chris Driedger bounced again from a Sport 2 loss by stopping 22 of 24 photographs within the win.
Hunter Shepard allowed 5 objectives on 36 photographs earlier than being relieved by Clay Stevenson, who completed with 5 stops.
NOTES: Coachella Valley is now 7-0 at house this postseason… McCormick’s hat trick was the primary within the Calder Cup Finals since Sport 2 of the 2009 collection, when Jason Jaffray scored 3 times for Manitoba in a 3-1 win over Hershey… Pictures on purpose have been 42-24 in favor of the Firebirds, who’ve a 99-64 benefit within the collection… Coachella Valley’s 23 photographs within the second body have been probably the most in a Finals interval since Rochester took 24 photographs within the second interval of Sport 5 towards Hartford in 2000… Attendance was 9,034 at Acrisure Enviornment.
(Coachella Valley leads collection, 2-1)
Sport 1 – Fri., June 14 – Coachella Valley 4, HERSHEY 3
Sport 2 – Solar., June 16 – HERSHEY 5, Coachella Valley 2
Sport 3 – Tue., June 18 – COACHELLA VALLEY 6, Hershey 2
Sport 4 – Thu., June 20 – Hershey at Coachella Valley, 10:00
Sport 5 – Sat., June 22 – Hershey at Coachella Valley, 9:00
*Sport 6 – Mon., June 24 – Coachella Valley at Hershey, 7:00
*Sport 7 – Wed., June 26 – Coachella Valley at Hershey, 7:00
*if needed… All instances Jap
