With Sunday night’s 5-1 beatdown of the Providence Bruins the Hershey Bears managed to take three of four road games during their swing with New England last week. The Bears defeated Lowell, Manchester, and the Bruins, losing only to Portland. It had to have been a satisfying bus ride back to Hershey last night. Also, a well-wired one.
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, the hockey bus in minor pro hockey was an enclave of sedation, a wheeled whirlwind of zoned-out hockey hopefuls: a bit of card game playing, a bit of banter, a whole lot of boredom-induced napping. It was a culture somewhat accurately captured in the movie ‘Slapshot.’ But times have changed. The culture on the hockey bus has been revolutionized by technology.
Via wireless Internet Bears’ radio voice John Walton uses literally every minute of every bus ride to refresh content for the Bears’ official web page as well as his own, John Walton Hockey. (JW has fresh video of Gavin Morgan’s goi...
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