Picture: Tori Hartman
The Hershey Bears have as soon as once more established a brand new hockey document, amassing 102,343 stuffed toys throughout Sunday’s annual Teddy Bear Toss.
This surpasses the membership’s earlier hockey world document of 74,599 collected in 2024.
Mike Sgarbossa despatched the fur flying together with his aim 14:45 into the primary interval of Hershey’s sport towards the visiting Windfall Bruins.
As a part of the membership’s Hershey Bears Cares initiative, which showcases the philanthropic actions and volunteer efforts of Bears gamers and workers members all through the group, teddy bears and stuffed animals are collected and donated to greater than 35 native and regional organizations. Moreover, the Sweigart Household Basis has pledged to donate a sum to the Kids’s Miracle Community that may match the variety of stuffed animals thrown on the ice.
Hershey’s annual Teddy Bear Toss has collected greater than 566,000 stuffed toys since its inception in 2001.
