Bears Announce Opening Night Roster

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HERSHEY, Pa. – The HERSHEY BEARS announced today the 26 players who comprise the club’s opening night roster. The announcement was made by BEARS President/GM Doug Yingst.

The complete roster is as follows, and is also attached:

GOALTENDERS (2): Braden Holtby, Dany Sabourin

DEFENSEMEN (9): Julien Brouillette, Tomas Kundratek, Kevin Marshall, Patrick McNeill, Steven Oleksy, Dmitry Orlov, Cameron Schilling, Garrett Stafford, Patrick Wellar

FORWARDS (15): Barry Almeida, Mathieu Beaudoin, Mike Carman, Matt Clackson, Jon DiSalvatore, Stanslav Galiev, Zach Hamill, Jon Kalinski, Boyd Kane, Garrett Mitchell, Matt Pope, Ryan Potulny, Mattias Sjogren, Ryan Stoa, Jeff Taffe

Both goaltenders and seven of the BEARS’ nine defensemen played all or part of the 2011-12 season in Chocolatetown, while seven forwards will return for this season.