{"id":384597,"date":"2025-11-17T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:07:11","slug":"ilya-protas-scores-goal-in-all-three-games-of-weekend-three-in-three-now-leads-the-hershey-bears-in-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384597\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Protas scores goal in all three games of weekend three-in-three, now leads the Hershey Bears in points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ilya Protas<\/strong> is on a three-game goal streak after scoring in every game of the Hershey Bears\u2019 three-in-three this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old younger brother of Aliaksei Protas scored the game-tying goal in Hershey\u2019s 2-1 overtime win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a pass from D.J. King, head coach Derek King\u2019s son, Protas sent a backhand shot under Aleksei Kolosov that tied the game with 6:48 remaining. Andrew Cristall got the secondary assist.<\/p>\n<p>Kolosov had saved Hershey\u2019s previous 28 shots before Protas found paydirt and gave Hershey life.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey went on to win in overtime after Connor Mayer, a defenseman called up earlier in the day from the ECHL South Carolina Stingrays, ripped a shot from the slot and scored.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Protas had multi-point games in two of his three outings and posted five points (3g, 2a).<\/p>\n<p>In Hershey\u2019s 2-1 win over Syracuse Crunch on Friday, Protas <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/14\/ilya-protas-andrew-cristall-score-goal-hershey-bears-win-syracuse-crunch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored his first career power-play goal<\/a> and tallied an assist on Andrew Cristall\u2019s game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Protas PPG against Syracuse on 11\/14<\/p>\n<p>The next night, Protas <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/16\/matt-strome-scores-twice-gwg-13-seconds-remaining-hershey-win-lehigh-valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a goal and an assist<\/a>, getting an apple on Matt Strome\u2019s first goal of the night. Hershey defeated Lehigh Valley 4-3 at Allentown\u2019s PPL Center.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Protas goal against Lehigh Valley on 11\/15<\/p>\n<p>The Bears wore all three of their games, improving their record to 9-4-1. Protas has 10 points (5g, 5a) in 14 games and now leads Hershey in points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s coming along nice,\u201d Derek King said of Protas after the game. \u201cI can\u2019t take all the credit for him. But he\u2019s a pro. You can tell he\u2019s been around a hockey family. And we\u2019ve talked about it before. He just keeps getting better and better every week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilya Protas is on a three-game goal streak after scoring in every game of the Hershey Bears\u2019 three-in-three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-384597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563544434001334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}