His name is Jakub Skarek, he’s 23 years old from the Czech Republic in his fourth year in Bridgeport. 3.30 GAA, 0.893 save % this year. This is his third shutout in 89 AHL games played.
The best thing about this is that Hershey's population is only 15,000. There were more than twice as many teddy bears on the ice that night as there were people in the entire city.
They have set a record the last 4 years they've done it (not counting 2020 & 2021). Their fans take this really seriously. In 2021 they did a drive-thru teddy bear toss due to Covid, and still collected 31,381. The best part of the event is the play-by-play announcer's call of it. When the bears start flying, he calls it "Sweet cuddly mayhem!", which I'm certain is the ONLY time those 3 words are ever spoken in that order.
Yes ma’am. Last year 25 organizations donated stuff bears to kids in need. This year maybe more as I think Hershey with that amount may have had to expanded their region
02:04 I can’t help but smile as this dude tried to be professional as he has literally a mountain of teddy bears behind him and they’re still coming! 💁🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️😂💯
@@margief1798 yeah I know. Op is a complete idiot. It's hard to be professional because bears are donates to charity? What if he was smiling and laughing? That is somehow supposed to be considered not professional??? ...
This kelsey guy is a complete tool. Posting their inane stream of consipusness. It makes enough vague sense to 140 other NPCs who enjoyed it so thoroughly
Things like this make hockey great. Like the time fans showed up to Stutzle's house to throw hats in his back yard to commemorate his first NHL hat trick during the pandemic when fans were not allowed to go to games.
What did they expect them to do walk out with the bears and not donate them? I love how being told not to do something really brings people together lol.
The expectation is that if the Bears don't score, you throw them at the end of the game. The only reason people threw them early was because of the annoucement to hold them until the end even if the bears scored. The crowd immediately boo'd and it was pretty obvious they weren't going to wait.
The noticeable thing is that most fans were game aware. When one or two threw, most held off. When there was five seconds left, they knew their actions would have no effect on the final score. I can't fault them for that.
This shows the power of what ONE person can start(as in throwing the first bear made everyone do it, despite being asked not to because of time reasons)
I love the way the fans just overwhelmingly displayed their love of the game and the love they could bring children who need something to just hold onto and love. I was also so very happy that there was Nothing Politicized about the game of the bears being tossed. I LOVED IT.
As a Hershey native the Bears are one of if not the best AHL teams and we also got a tier 3 junior team owned by Bruce Boudreau and his wife amazing hockey town here in central PA
2:05 Look at that mountain of stuffed animals, it's well over the boards, LMAO. 67k stuffed things, a World Record, best Hockey video ever. I've watched this five times now and it keeps getting better each time, love it. Way to go PA hockey fans.
Holy shit! 67K!?!? Thats amazing! There weren't even 67K people there!! Edit: I just watched it again, and the arena did seem pretty full. So there could've been 67k people there. I can tell the locals really love their team. Love to see it.
A few years ago in Vancouver, Canada, the WHL team (Vancouver Giants) had a similar situation at their Teddy Bear toss game (December 2018). Late in the 3rd, Vancouver still had yet to score. Getting absolutely dominated all game. Fans ended up leaving with 5 minutes or so left on the clock, with their bears in hand still. This is better. At least the charity drive occurred, in full. Vancouver finally did score with 1 minute 20 left. But by then... Several hundred people already left, with their teddy bears in frustration.
Love it. Note to management the second u ask for everyone to calm down and NOT do something, is the second things get really out of control. It’s a cue to the fans they’re in control and they’ll absolutely take over.
I might not be a Caps fan (I am a Pens fan), but being from Central PA, and having to go down to Hershey for an MRI every year, this will always warm my heart. Whether its in the Giant Center, or in Pegula Ice Arena.
This is really a cool thing that a franchise can do for its local community. It’s also fun for the fans to throw things on the ice and not get arrested/thrown out! 😂
I was there! Harsh defeat but their goalie played a great game. One thing I'd like to add: it takes usually well over an hour to clear all the bears. Not just 30 minutes!
As a fan of the Portland Winterhawks, who first developed this idea back in the '70s, I must agree, when the home team in one of these gets shut out, this is almost guaranteed to occur. The Winterhawks solved this by instituting the rule that if the Hawks were shut out, you throw at the final horn.
Found this after being told the story by my father after a 1st quarter to a Redwings game we were attending in person, and this is as glorious as he told it. Honestly one of the best instances of the fans revolting.
In smaller towns, like Hershey, semi-pro or even college games are usually the highlight of the week for the city. When you have a special event, like the Teddy Bear Toss, it makes it even more important to go to.
I was recently at a Saskatoon Blades (WHL) game with my cousins and they had a teddy bear toss night that none of us knew anything about, so when the Blades guy scored with 5 minutes left in the first and a thousand teddies got thrown onto the ice, we were like "what the heck is going on here?" That player ended up getting a hat-trick in what was, if I recall correctly, a 3-1 victory, in which the shutout was ruined in the last 5 minutes by a bit of an own goal.
That’s why when purchasing tickets you should always remember to look at the promotional schedule a head of time to see what’s being given. Beside the Hersheypark pass night this is the highlight of the season too
@@JescaML meh, it was a pretty spontaneous decision to go to that game. Someone somewhere mentioned a Blades game the next night and we were like "huh, sure, let's go" i'm pretty sure tickets were purchased like 3 hours before puck drop.
I was at a Springfield Indians game many years ago and everybody started throwing the armrests on the ice after a s*** call by one of the Refs it was one the most amazing things I have seen at a hockey game
That’s the great thing about sports. It’s the traditions that make it worth it. Win or lose. Either it be tail gating, the silent night basketball game, or this teddy bears picnic game here. Sports can often bring the best in people.
The Charlotte Checkers do a teddy bear toss every year as well and me and my friend that went to the game joked about how bad it would be if they were shutout on teddy bear toss night. Luckily, we weren't but to see this a few weeks later was crazyyyy lmfao.
Here's something crazy, I went to a concert (Korn/rob zombie) back in 99, and the same thing happened, but instead of teddy bears, people threw beer and liquor bottles. At first, the floor crowd started tossing water bottles at the people in the stadium, then it just escalated to the point of glass bottles. My buddy who was on the floor area watched a girl get laid out cold from a jack Daniels bottle, tons of people got hit and cut up. It was gnarly. Scariest concert I've ever been to.
Our local USHL team does a teddy bear toss every year too and it's the same rules. This actually happened about 4 years ago when they didn't score any goals and everyone waited until triple zero
lmao I think a good portion of fans most likely misheard the announcer He said "stop throwing the bears" But I can imagine how people could have heard "please *start* throwing the bears"
When I was a kid, the goal was to throw the puck “at the ice” at halftime, meaning you found the most annoying drunk in the crowd and aimed for his head.
Just another reason why minor league hockey is so much more enjoyable to attend than an NHL game. As a Toledo Walleye (ECHL) fan, I actually drive further to attend their games than Red Wings games. There’s a purity in the minor leagues that is missing from the NHL. IMO, NHL has a ‘corporate’ vibe to it now. Even more so with the politics involved now. I’ll continue to support my ECHL team. Those guys aren’t pampered prima donnas, they earn every nickel and it shows.
389,508 teddy bears since 2001. So, in this one game, 16% of all the teddy bears earned by the team _in the last 22 years_ were from this one singular game.
Lots of minor league hockey teams do this, but it started, I believe with Hershey. I've been to a couple of these games at my local ECHL team, and it's great when the fur starts to fly. Great job by the team and the fans.
The Vancouver Giants of the WHL used to, or perhaps still does, do a teddy bear toss. I've been to two of them, on both ends of the spectrum. The worst was similar the Hershey Bears--blow out shutout, and fans just started tossing the teddys onto the ice with five minutes or so left. The best was scoring less than a minute into the game, and the Coliseum absolutely exploded :).
Oil Kings do it too. I think a lot of CHL teams do this now. It's very popular. And fun! I've been to a few of them in Vancouver and Edmonton. 2018 Vancouver teddy bear toss was frustrating.
Hershey will always be in my heart.. Children's Miracle Network is such a great thing the Town/Hospital does is always great to attend when they host an event. In late 80s met celebs like Franco Harris and Richard Simmons and just a great way to give to charity and then spend to few days at a great zoo then in the amusement park. Clean safe and always a great place to be. You know you are in Hershey when the light poles are topped with Hershey kisses!
We do the teddy bear toss every year at the Saddledome. We literally toss thousands of bears and the game goes on within 15 minutes. No excuse to end a game early
The Edmonton Oil Kings of the WHL do an annual teddy bear toss game before Christmas. It is always the the best attended game of the year. The average attendance for a normal game is less than 10,000, they do not sell the upper sections of Rogers Place almost all Oil King games. The teddy bear toss game is always a near sell out of the entire building, around 18,000. This year the Oil Kings are rebuilding after winning the WHL championship last year, they are by far the worst team in the league. The teddy bear toss game was still packed.
That is pretty cocky to hold a game and event that basically guarantees that the home team is for sure going to score and early in the game too. Would have been better if the PA Announcer would have said Bear with us while we try to clean up the ice tho.
"Sweet Cuddly Mayhem" is the term the Hershey Bears use for the Toss. I loved how when there was 5 seconds left in the game and the PA announcer said that if more bears were thrown on the ice, there would be a "delay of game" penalty; the crowd (which I was part of) act like "fuck that" and just dumping all their bears on the ice. To this day I joking compare it to a kinder, gentler version of the NBA's "Malice At The Palace."
The only way to make the game "bearable". Lol! Good cause. I think the fans were more than just eager to see their team score... they wanted to contribute and donate... and they weren't going to let an opposing team, or an announcer get in the way of that. Sad that the game didn't go their way, but at least the charity got good donations in the end.
As someone who was there, It was great. I hit a kid with a bear and got hit with a 6 ft tall panda
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@flyinhigh50 unclench your ass 🕳️ a tiny bit and laugh a little.. you’ll feel better. 💁🏻♂️😉😂
IT was great, I hit a kid.
Based
Lol bruh.
38 shots and no goals. What a game for the other goalie 👏🏿
"These kids ain't gettin' shit tonight. Not on my watch. Fuck them kids."
He must hate teddy bears
@@stopcommunism9224 😂🤣
*sits back gets a timmiy's and relaxes*
His name is Jakub Skarek, he’s 23 years old from the Czech Republic in his fourth year in Bridgeport. 3.30 GAA, 0.893 save % this year. This is his third shutout in 89 AHL games played.
The best thing about this is that Hershey's population is only 15,000. There were more than twice as many teddy bears on the ice that night as there were people in the entire city.
67k. That's more than 4x
@@Dr.Acula76 oh I definitely thought the video said 37k for some reason. Thanks for the note lol
Game attendance was 10,583. I am a season ticket holder who lives across the River do it’s not all Hershey residents attending
They draw from a far larger region, Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Lebanon and beyond.
Kind of a dumb thing to say.
Hershey is part of Harrisburg Metro.......population of 542,000.
So in one game they threw 17% of the total bears collected since 2001. They really stepped the f up.
They have set a record the last 4 years they've done it (not counting 2020 & 2021). Their fans take this really seriously. In 2021 they did a drive-thru teddy bear toss due to Covid, and still collected 31,381. The best part of the event is the play-by-play announcer's call of it. When the bears start flying, he calls it "Sweet cuddly mayhem!", which I'm certain is the ONLY time those 3 words are ever spoken in that order.
IMO, it was a better spectacle to watch than the game itself lol
@@spoof1234 yup. It started last year probably as a slip up and is now stuck when Hershey does their toss
@@JescaML looks like you're right (found the 2018 and 2019 calls and he didn't say it). Either way, he should stick with it, because it is awesome.
And that is why we have so much polluting waste. Oil made fabrics. People starving and that pile of uselessness.
You can't really blame 10K+ fans on getting annoyed not getting a goal
Five seconds doesn’t mean anything
@@SSNESS we literally waited like almost 3 hours to give kids in need bears
@@canadiansyrup527 Bruins will win the Stanley Cup in June
@@SSNESS That's 3 months away. I wouldn't be so certain.
@@canadiansyrup527 wow you’re so generous. How about you donate money like a normal person instead of a narcissist
I love the goalie at the end. He's like "Aww screw it!" and flops down into the giant pile of stuffed animals.
timestamp?
It starts at 2:28. You might to be able to see it if you have the next up video overlay on.
@@renegadeleader1 is there a way to turn off the video overlay? I hate it.
@@squirrelydan3 I'm wondering that too. So annoying.
Thanks for pointing that out, good eye!
The people by the glass looked like they were in a giant claw machine.
THE CLAWWWW
I thought it looked familiar
Yes!
Was looking to see if someone thought the same thing. Lol. I was thinking man that would syck and be a blast at same time.
It would be wise to not attend the game on donate-a-brick-day.
Wow, they may not have won the game but, the support and donations of teddy bears they received is truly amazing.
Yes ma’am. Last year 25 organizations donated stuff bears to kids in need. This year maybe more as I think Hershey with that amount may have had to expanded their region
They should be in
They should be banned
@@johnmarshall4399 Not a chance.
"this was a devastating loss" as the piles of stuffed animals get bigger and bigger LMAO
02:04 I can’t help but smile as this dude tried to be professional as he has literally a mountain of teddy bears behind him and they’re still coming! 💁🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️😂💯
Yeah lmao haha lol
Yep, I said the same thing, lololol
Oh, it was too hard for him to be respectful because of bears? Lol.
Glad fans donated these stuffed animals for those less fortunate!!
@@margief1798 yeah I know. Op is a complete idiot. It's hard to be professional because bears are donates to charity? What if he was smiling and laughing? That is somehow supposed to be considered not professional??? ...
This kelsey guy is a complete tool. Posting their inane stream of consipusness. It makes enough vague sense to 140 other NPCs who enjoyed it so thoroughly
Things like this make hockey great. Like the time fans showed up to Stutzle's house to throw hats in his back yard to commemorate his first NHL hat trick during the pandemic when fans were not allowed to go to games.
That’s awesome lol
Sports suck. I cannot understand what the great obsession is. It's the same crap over and over and over.
@@youtubecertified4643 I wish I had as much free time as you.
@@youtubecertified4643 then why are you commenting on a sports video? Go touch grass.
@@youtubecertified4643 "Sports suck! Its just the same thing over and over!"
Proceeds to play league of legends for 2000 hours
What did they expect them to do walk out with the bears and not donate them? I love how being told not to do something really brings people together lol.
The expectation is that if the Bears don't score, you throw them at the end of the game. The only reason people threw them early was because of the annoucement to hold them until the end even if the bears scored. The crowd immediately boo'd and it was pretty obvious they weren't going to wait.
the announcer saying "please stop throwing the bears" as hundreds of stuffed animals and a grinch begin to invade was the funniest shit
Just like covid! I met some of the best people in my life at parties I was told were illegal to attend.
@@lapoose325 Was the most patriotic and together I've seen people in a long time. The 4th was lit that year.
@@zzzzzz3708 Love to hear it friend 🇨🇦🇺🇲
Never tell hockey fans what not to do!
Like find a better sport!
Big mistake
The way your sentence is written, it would be the equivalent of saying, "Tell fans what to do".
The noticeable thing is that most fans were game aware. When one or two threw, most held off. When there was five seconds left, they knew their actions would have no effect on the final score. I can't fault them for that.
@@scottydu81 We got skill, we got hits, we got fights. Whats not to love?
This shows the power of what ONE person can start(as in throwing the first bear made everyone do it, despite being asked not to because of time reasons)
Bolshevism
I love the way the fans just overwhelmingly displayed their love of the game and the love they could bring children who need something to just hold onto and love. I was also so very happy that there was Nothing Politicized about the game of the bears being tossed. I LOVED IT.
This is another reason why hockey fans are the best in the world.
As a Hershey native the Bears are one of if not the best AHL teams and we also got a tier 3 junior team owned by Bruce Boudreau and his wife amazing hockey town here in central PA
Also the longest tenured AHL team in its existing city (in the AHL since 1938…existing in Hershey since 1931).
And as a STH. Those jerseys should never again be worn during teddy bear toss we always seem to lose in them
@@AEMoreira81 yup. 85 years and also the Giant Center Arena is celebrating 20 years so it’s a double anniversary
I miss the Norfolk Admirals and Bears rivalry
@@IrishRulz2 i actually got to go to Norfolk for a game way back on November Black Friday. They are now a team in the ECHL.
2:05 Look at that mountain of stuffed animals, it's well over the boards, LMAO. 67k stuffed things, a World Record, best Hockey video ever. I've watched this five times now and it keeps getting better each time, love it. Way to go PA hockey fans.
Holy shit! 67K!?!? Thats amazing! There weren't even 67K people there!!
Edit: I just watched it again, and the arena did seem pretty full. So there could've been 67k people there. I can tell the locals really love their team. Love to see it.
A few years ago in Vancouver, Canada, the WHL team (Vancouver Giants) had a similar situation at their Teddy Bear toss game (December 2018). Late in the 3rd, Vancouver still had yet to score. Getting absolutely dominated all game. Fans ended up leaving with 5 minutes or so left on the clock, with their bears in hand still.
This is better. At least the charity drive occurred, in full.
Vancouver finally did score with 1 minute 20 left. But by then... Several hundred people already left, with their teddy bears in frustration.
Love it. Note to management the second u ask for everyone to calm down and NOT do something, is the second things get really out of control. It’s a cue to the fans they’re in control and they’ll absolutely take over.
I was there. I've never loved a losing game more than I did that night! Looking forward to next year's game already! #SweetCuddlyMayhem
With things like this, there are no losers, really.
More like #AbsoluteFluffyChaos
@@frederickglass1583 The team calls it Sweet Cuddly Mayhem.
I might not be a Caps fan (I am a Pens fan), but being from Central PA, and having to go down to Hershey for an MRI every year, this will always warm my heart. Whether its in the Giant Center, or in Pegula Ice Arena.
"Gentlemen please stop throwing the bears"
LOL
"The Bears will get a Delay of Game penalty if you keep this up!"
K, lol. *throws more bears*
So proud of my hometown for starting and spreading this event! ❤️
This is really a cool thing that a franchise can do for its local community. It’s also fun for the fans to throw things on the ice and not get arrested/thrown out! 😂
I was there! Harsh defeat but their goalie played a great game.
One thing I'd like to add: it takes usually well over an hour to clear all the bears. Not just 30 minutes!
As a fan of the Portland Winterhawks, who first developed this idea back in the '70s, I must agree, when the home team in one of these gets shut out, this is almost guaranteed to occur. The Winterhawks solved this by instituting the rule that if the Hawks were shut out, you throw at the final horn.
The goalie did one thing every goalie dreams of. Get a shutout on teddy bear toss night.
Found this after being told the story by my father after a 1st quarter to a Redwings game we were attending in person, and this is as glorious as he told it.
Honestly one of the best instances of the fans revolting.
So proud to be from Hershey and still live here. Surprised so many don’t know about this tradition
Hershey fans are so entitled
It’s done in all minor leagues arena but not quite as big as Hershey.
The Otters have done it in Erie a couple times.
Is there a highway there?
@@ARedMotorcycle in Hershey yup
I’m pretty amazed at the size of the crowd at a minor league hockey game. I’ve been to many Red Wings games that didn’t have that many people.
In smaller towns, like Hershey, semi-pro or even college games are usually the highlight of the week for the city. When you have a special event, like the Teddy Bear Toss, it makes it even more important to go to.
That's a game stoppage I can totally get behind 😁
"They were everywhere!!!" Around us! Amongst us! In the trees!"
-game vet 2023
Grew up on Hershey Bears hockey. Moved to Pittsburgh 30 years ago. Great to see the Bears again. Still lots of fan support.
Yes this is what I loved watching, the game. Also the crazy stuff that happens. Bless you and yours
I was recently at a Saskatoon Blades (WHL) game with my cousins and they had a teddy bear toss night that none of us knew anything about, so when the Blades guy scored with 5 minutes left in the first and a thousand teddies got thrown onto the ice, we were like "what the heck is going on here?" That player ended up getting a hat-trick in what was, if I recall correctly, a 3-1 victory, in which the shutout was ruined in the last 5 minutes by a bit of an own goal.
That’s why when purchasing tickets you should always remember to look at the promotional schedule a head of time to see what’s being given. Beside the Hersheypark pass night this is the highlight of the season too
@@JescaML meh, it was a pretty spontaneous decision to go to that game. Someone somewhere mentioned a Blades game the next night and we were like "huh, sure, let's go" i'm pretty sure tickets were purchased like 3 hours before puck drop.
This only solidified that hockey fans are the best. Way to do it folks!!!
I was at a Springfield Indians game many years ago and everybody started throwing the armrests on the ice after a s*** call by one of the Refs it was one the most amazing things I have seen at a hockey game
We here in Milwaukee, home of the Admirals (AHL), also do the teddy bear toss, but I've never seen it that chaotic. Good on those fans!
That’s the great thing about sports. It’s the traditions that make it worth it. Win or lose. Either it be tail gating, the silent night basketball game, or this teddy bears picnic game here. Sports can often bring the best in people.
The Charlotte Checkers do a teddy bear toss every year as well and me and my friend that went to the game joked about how bad it would be if they were shutout on teddy bear toss night. Luckily, we weren't but to see this a few weeks later was crazyyyy lmfao.
Here's something crazy, I went to a concert (Korn/rob zombie) back in 99, and the same thing happened, but instead of teddy bears, people threw beer and liquor bottles.
At first, the floor crowd started tossing water bottles at the people in the stadium, then it just escalated to the point of glass bottles. My buddy who was on the floor area watched a girl get laid out cold from a jack Daniels bottle, tons of people got hit and cut up. It was gnarly. Scariest concert I've ever been to.
To say that a new world's record for stuffed animal toss is classic
You love to see it ♥
A beautiful example of how the people have heart ♥
I'm happy for the people who will receive these gifts 😄👑
Our local USHL team does a teddy bear toss every year too and it's the same rules. This actually happened about 4 years ago when they didn't score any goals and everyone waited until triple zero
lmao I think a good portion of fans most likely misheard the announcer
He said "stop throwing the bears"
But I can imagine how people could have heard "please *start* throwing the bears"
It"s not just the Hershey Bears. Every AHL team has an annual teddy bear toss.
When I was a kid, the goal was to throw the puck “at the ice” at halftime, meaning you found the most annoying drunk in the crowd and aimed for his head.
I was at the Thunderbirds (AHL) teddy bear toss game and I can attest to the insanity and spectacle but yeah this one looks especially nuts!
Lets Go Blues & Lets Go T-Birds!!!
Just another reason why minor league hockey is so much more enjoyable to attend than an NHL game. As a Toledo Walleye (ECHL) fan, I actually drive further to attend their games than Red Wings games.
There’s a purity in the minor leagues that is missing from the NHL. IMO, NHL has a ‘corporate’ vibe to it now. Even more so with the politics involved now.
I’ll continue to support my ECHL team. Those guys aren’t pampered prima donnas, they earn every nickel and it shows.
1:30 that view is hilarious 😂 so many bears didn’t make it to the ice
The Fans we're the real winners
389,508 teddy bears since 2001. So, in this one game, 16% of all the teddy bears earned by the team _in the last 22 years_ were from this one singular game.
Imagine if we did the same to politicians when they try and jaw flap to the public. Maybe use rotten vegetables instead of teddy bears too.
A teddy bear revolt is adorable
This just shows that the fans control every aspect of sports.
Alot of teams do this in echl and ahl, its awesome to be apart of
Nobody does it like Hershey!
This is why hockey is and will always be the greatest sport on the planet.
That is by far the best charity drive I’ve ever seen !!
We all know the best way to get a crowd to not do something is to say “please don’t do this thing!”
"Fans. Please stop throwing the bears." lol
“Please stop throwing the bears” lmfao
I've always wondered what would happen if a team hosting a Teddy Bear Toss got shut out. I guess now I know
Happens in the WHL also. maybe 8-10,000. 67,000 is just crazy!
The Calgary Hitman did about 30k one year. That’s what I think started it.
Lots of minor league hockey teams do this, but it started, I believe with Hershey. I've been to a couple of these games at my local ECHL team, and it's great when the fur starts to fly. Great job by the team and the fans.
My friend was at that game. He was dressed as a teddy bear.
Haven’t heard from him in a while though…
The Vancouver Giants of the WHL used to, or perhaps still does, do a teddy bear toss. I've been to two of them, on both ends of the spectrum. The worst was similar the Hershey Bears--blow out shutout, and fans just started tossing the teddys onto the ice with five minutes or so left. The best was scoring less than a minute into the game, and the Coliseum absolutely exploded :).
The Calgary Hitmen also do a teddy bear toss
Oil Kings do it too. I think a lot of CHL teams do this now. It's very popular. And fun! I've been to a few of them in Vancouver and Edmonton.
2018 Vancouver teddy bear toss was frustrating.
I’ve always wondered what would happen if it was a shutout on teddy bear night 😂
So Pennsylvania citizen with common sense do exist in your state!!! 🙏🇺🇸 Congratulations on truly Great Night!!!
This is what our country is all about. A country of rebels…and what a beautiful sight it is. 😊
1:20 Gentlemen please stop Throwing The Bears 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂☠☠☠☠💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭 LMFAO
Hershey will always be in my heart.. Children's Miracle Network is such a great thing the Town/Hospital does is always great to attend when they host an event. In late 80s met celebs like Franco Harris and Richard Simmons and just a great way to give to charity and then spend to few days at a great zoo then in the amusement park. Clean safe and always a great place to be. You know you are in Hershey when the light poles are topped with Hershey kisses!
Every team in the OHL does this! So cool
The Q does it too
And the W
Has it ever happened where the home team scored, the bears came on the ice, and the goal was overturned for some reason?
@@Lava1964 has happened In Bakersfield we joke that my cousin caused it to happen lol
It’s stupid. Who the hell wants a TB after it’s lying in spit and snot on the ice?
My only true wish in life is that I can come up with a charity that continues to grow and help people
I was at a teddy bear toss this season in the front row, tons of fun helping get hundreds of bears over the boards and it's all for a great cause
We do the teddy bear toss every year at the Saddledome. We literally toss thousands of bears and the game goes on within 15 minutes.
No excuse to end a game early
The Edmonton Oil Kings of the WHL do an annual teddy bear toss game before Christmas. It is always the the best attended game of the year. The average attendance for a normal game is less than 10,000, they do not sell the upper sections of Rogers Place almost all Oil King games. The teddy bear toss game is always a near sell out of the entire building, around 18,000. This year the Oil Kings are rebuilding after winning the WHL championship last year, they are by far the worst team in the league. The teddy bear toss game was still packed.
I love how he's giving the interview and stuffed animals are just being yeeted over the glass behind him. XD.
I was at a Kingston Frontenacs OHL game like a decade ago and this exact thing happened
whatever, just drop the puck. 5 seconds of soft, cuddly chaos is fine lol
Hockey needs less PRIDE nights and more teddy bear throws, holla if you hear me!!!!!!
The only reason I could imagine going to see a hockey game is a teddy bear toss event.
Oh my goodness, I can “bearly” contain myself at that massive mountain of bears.
That's awesome! It must've been so much fun! I hope this happens all the time from now on! 🤣🤣
Plot Twist: A real Bear somehow gets thrown in and claws 3 of the players. 😲
Pretty sure every AHL team does teddy bear toss night, not just Hershey.
Not every team does it, but no team does it like the Hershey Bears.
Rockford Icehogs have Chuck a puck but I’m pretty sure that’s every game
I went to this game, the only Hershey game I’ve been to. We didn’t know and had no idea what was happening with the teddy bears.
That is pretty cocky to hold a game and event that basically guarantees that the home team is for sure going to score and early in the game too. Would have been better if the PA Announcer would have said Bear with us while we try to clean up the ice tho.
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing..." - Thomas Jefferson
Surprised the announcer isn’t cancelled for saying gentlemen and not gentlepersons
"Sweet Cuddly Mayhem" is the term the Hershey Bears use for the Toss.
I loved how when there was 5 seconds left in the game and the PA announcer said that if more bears were thrown on the ice, there would be a "delay of game" penalty; the crowd (which I was part of) act like "fuck that" and just dumping all their bears on the ice.
To this day I joking compare it to a kinder, gentler version of the NBA's "Malice At The Palace."
THIS IS WHAT THW WORLD NEEDS MOREOF RIGHT NOW !!!!
The mountain of bears as the player was being interviewed. Lmfaoo
I wholeheartedly love this!!!!!
'Ladies and gentlemen, please stop throwing....DA BEARS!'
announcers: PLEASE STOP THROWING THE BEARS…oh my gosh
The only way to make the game "bearable". Lol! Good cause. I think the fans were more than just eager to see their team score... they wanted to contribute and donate... and they weren't going to let an opposing team, or an announcer get in the way of that. Sad that the game didn't go their way, but at least the charity got good donations in the end.
I love Hershey Bears hockey! This is great they collected so many, and the game was decided by the last 5 seconds, so it don’t matter anyway.
That is the greatest thing ever. I love seeing this every year....
Ya'll killed that poor custodian. Heard he died of a hypothermia AND a stroke AND heat exhaustion.