The Streak is Broken! The Streak is Broken!
In the looming shadow of Superbowl XLVI, and on the tail end of a 6 losses in 7 games collection, today’s game in Hershey had the potential to go one of two ways. Yet another disheartening loss to the Bears’ division rivals at home, or a dramatic and triumphant breaking of a 9-game home losing streak that stretched back to October 30, 2010. I’ll leave it up to the reader to infer tonight’s results from the post title and above image (OK, fine – Ryan Potulny scored the Game Winning Goal in the fourth round of a shootout, pushing the game’s final score to 4-3. Oh, and DJ King got an assist (and the world didn’t end!). Happy, now?).
Due to a surplus of material on Capitals Outsider tonight, a full game breakdown will be going up much later in the evening (Link Here). For now, just know that the Hershey Bears are breathing a bit easier tonight (even Kevin Marshall, who’s still down at least two teeth from yesterday’s shot-block-and-bleed maneuver).