GAMEDAY: Game 43 - Hershey (20-20-2) at Lehigh Valley (22-15-4) 7:15 p.m. ET

ALLENTOWN, PA -- The Lehigh Valley Phantoms (22-15-5) face rival Hershey Bears (20-20-2) in a mid-week AHL matchup at PPL Center. Puck drops at 7:15 p.m. ET

Lehigh Valley Phantoms Roster Notes

Alex Lyon got the start in net for Lehigh Valley. With Anthony Stolarz's gear being packed up from his locker stall at PPL Center Tuesday, Branden Komm was called up from Reading to backstop Lyon.

Greg Carey, Tyrell Goulbourne and Mikhail Vorobyev - who all three missed Monday's game vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton - returned to the lineup Wednesday vs. Hershey.

Phantoms' Lines (Starters in Bold/Italics)

Greg Carey - Mike Vecchione - Chris Conner Justin Bailey - Mikhail Vorobyev - Colin McDonald Tyrell Goulbourne - Connor Bunnaman - Carsen TwarynskiJosh MacDonald- Steven Swavely - Mike Huntebrinker

Philip Samuelsson - Phil Myers Zach Palmquist - Zach Willcox James de Haas - Mark Friedman

Alex Lyon - Branden Komm

Scratches: Frank Hora (healthy), Cole Bardreau (injured), Nicolas Aube-Kubel (injured), German Rubtsov (injured), Alex Krushelnyski (healthy), David Kase (injured) and T.J. Brennan (injured)

GAME STORY

FIRST PERIOD

The Phantoms weren't able to get much to the net in the opening period. In fact, it wasn't until there was just over five and a half minutes left before the first intermission that Lehigh Valley was credited with their first shot on goal -- and that was a hit post down low by Carsen Twarynski.

By then, the Bears had already taken a 1-0 lead.

Garrett Pilon fed Connor Hobbs for a quick shot past Alex Lyon with 6:52 left in the first frame to put Hershey on the board first. It marked the first time in his last nine appearances that Lyon allowed a first period goal.

SECOND PERIOD

Lehigh Valley had a glorious opportunity to even the score in the opening minutes of the period, getting an extended five-on-three power play opportunity after a pair of Hershey penalties 35 seconds apart in the opening 1:23 of the middle frame.

Unfortunately for the Phantoms, Jayson Megna stole a puck and got a shorthanded breakaway shortly after the two-man advantage started - drawing a slashing minor that prevented the Phantoms power play from getting anything going.

As the period wore on, Lehigh Valley started generating more consistent offensive pressure - to the tune of 15 second period shots. Bears goaltender Ilya Samsonov was equal to the teak on everything thrown his way through the first two periods, but Lehigh Valley still has 20 minutes and a manageable one-goal hockey game in front of them heading to the final frame.

THIRD PERIOD

Again in the final frame, the Phantoms got a golden opportunity with another 5-on-3 power play chance. This after newcomer Justin Bailey drew a pair of penalties on the same sequence to give the home team a full two minutes of two-man advantage time.

This time, Lehigh Valley cashed in - tying up the game with 16:26 left in regulation when Phil Myers fed Greg Carey a perfect pass to the right-wing circle where Carey sent a one-timer past Samsonov for his 20th goal of the season.

From there, Hershey really dominated play. They out shot the Phantoms 20-5 in the period and had a five-on-three power play of their own but were unable to find the go-ahead goal.

Credit Lyon and the Phantoms' penalty killers for getting this one to overtime.

OVERTIME

GAME SUMMARY

1st Period

13:08: HER - Hobbs (3) - Pilon, Walker

2nd Period

0:48: HER - (PP) Malenstyn, minor (tripping) 1:23: HER - (PP) Gerisch, minor (hooking) 1:40: LV - (PP) Myers, minor (slashing) 8:53: HER - (PP) Lewington, minor (slashing) 14:31: LV - (PP) Bailey, minor (slashing)

3rd Period

1:45: HER - (PP) Leach, minor (hooking) 1:45: HER - (PP) O'Brien, minor (high-sticking) 3:34: LV - PPG Carey (20) - Myers, Vecchione 9:21: LV - (PP) Vecchione, minor (slashing) 11:21 LV - (PP) Swavely, minor (hooking) 12:14: LV - (PP) Vorobyev, minor (boarding)

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

LV

Huntebrinker - no goal Vorobyev - no goal Carey - GOAL

HER

Barber - no goal Sgarbossa - no goal Sproul - no goal

BOXSCORE

Hershey Bears 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 = 1 Lehigh Valley   0 - 0 - 1 - 0 = 1

Shots

Hershey Bears 9 - 10 - 20 - 2 =41 Lehigh Valley   4 - 15 - 5 - 2 = 26

Goalies

HER: Ilya Samsonov (25 saves - 26 shots) LV: Alex Lyon (40 saves - 41 shots)

Power Play

HER: 0-for-2 LV: 0-for-3

Penalty Kill

HER: 3-for-3 LV: 2-for-2

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