Charlotte Checkers beat Hershey Bears, advance to Conference Finals

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte Checkers are headed to the Jap Convention Finals within the Calder Cup Playoffs.

The Checkers accomplished a sequence sweep of the Hershey Bears within the Division Finals with a 6-3 win on Wednesday. Charlotte received the primary two video games at house earlier than ending the job on the highway in Pennsylvania.

Hershey took a 2-0 lead within the second interval of Wednesday’s sport, however Charlotte punched again with 5 unanswered objectives to place the sport away. Brett Chorske, Michael Benning, John Leonard, Will Lockwood, Kyle Criscuolo, and Rasmus Asplund all scored within the victory for Charlotte.

Hershey edged Charlotte by two factors within the Atlantic Division to realize homefield benefit for this sequence, however the Checkers shortly compelled the Bears right into a nook. The Bears, who received the final two Calder Cups, is not going to have an opportunity on the three-peat.

Recreation 1 was a back-and-forth affair with Charlotte prevailing within the third interval on a Leonard aim. The Checkers have been stored out of the web in Recreation 2 till the ultimate 5 minutes, when Asplund scored to tie the sport. Asplund broke by way of once more in additional time to present the Checkers a 2-1 win and a 2-0 sequence lead.

Whereas going through a division-winner on the highway within the playoffs is a frightening process, the Checkers truly fared higher away from house in opposition to the Bears this season. Charlotte was 3-0-1 in Hershey throughout the common season, in comparison with a 1-2-1 report in opposition to the Bears at house. 

This will probably be Charlotte’s second journey to the Jap Convention Finals. The Chackers final made the spherical in 2019, when the staff received its first Calder Cup.

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