The Springfield Thunderbirds (0-2-0-0) could not generate enough offense and suffered a 5-1 loss to the Hershey Bears (1-1-1-0) on Saturday night inside Giant Center.

Springfield put pressure on the Hershey crease in the opening minutes, but Clay Stevenson came up with a trio of stops in the opening three minutes, buying his offense time to crack into the scoresheet first.

30-year-old veteran Sheldon Rempal flew up the right wing undetected off the Bears’ bench, received a feed from Spencer Smallman, and elevated a perfect shot on the short side of Georgi Romanov to give Hershey the 1-0 jump at 4:07 of the first.

Both teams struggled to find high-danger chances for much of the next 15 minutes, but an unfortunate miscue from the visitors gave Hershey the chance to balloon their lead he

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