SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced right this moment that Hershey Bears ahead Hendrix Lapierre has been chosen because the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Participant of the Week for the interval ending February 16, 2025.
Lapierre recorded two objectives and three assists in two video games final week, serving to the Bears to a pair of victories over their closest pursuer atop the Atlantic Division.
Hershey hosted second-place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Tuesday within the entrance finish of a home-and-home set, and Lapierre registered a objective, an help and a team-high 5 pictures on objective to assist the Bears to a 5-4 victory. Then in Saturday’s rematch in Wilkes-Barre, Lapierre’s three-point night time despatched Hershey to a come-from-behind 4-3 win over the Penguins; he assisted on two game-tying objectives, together with one with 12.5 seconds left in regulation, earlier than scoring the successful objective at 3:13 of time beyond regulation.
Since rejoining the Bears on mortgage from Washington on Dec. 29, Lapierre has two objectives and 9 assists for 11 factors in 13 AHL video games. The third-year professional from Aylmer, Que., has compiled 22 objectives and 36 assists for 58 factors in 94 profession regular-season video games with Hershey, together with 10 objectives and 18 assists in 40 postseason contests whereas serving to the Bears to Calder Cup championships in 2023 and 2024. Lapierre received the Jack Butterfield Trophy as essentially the most precious participant of the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs.
Chosen within the first spherical (twenty second total) of the 2020 NHL Draft, Lapierre has notched 9 objectives and 22 assists in 84 profession NHL video games with the Capitals, together with eight assists in 27 video games this season.
