Hershey Bears to Take the Ice for 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs

This spring, the Hershey Bears are #R3lentless for a third consecutive Calder Cup!

Playoff hockey is back in Chocolatetown, as Hershey makes its 72nd appearance in the Calder Cup Playoffs, as the chase for banner No. 14 is officially underway. After securing a first-round bye thanks to finishing atop the Atlantic Division during the 2024-25 regular season, the Bears will play their first games of the 2025 postseason this week.

Hershey gets set to take on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the best-of-five Atlantic Division Semifinals, with at least two games guaranteed to open the series at GIANT Center, where Bear Nation’s full support will hopefully push the Chocolate and White to another Calder Cup title.

The complete schedule for the Atlantic Division Semifinals is as follows:

Game 1 – Wednesday, April 30 vs. Lehigh Valley, GIANT Center, 7 p.m.
Game 2 – Friday, May 2 vs. Lehigh Valley, GIANT Center, 7 p.m.
Game 3 – Sunday, May 4 at Lehigh Valley, PPL Center, 5:05 p.m.
*Game 4 – Friday, May 9 at Lehigh Valley, PPL Center, 7:05 p.m.
*Game 5 – Sunday, May 11 vs. Lehigh Valley, GIANT Center, 5 p.m.

*if necessary. All times Eastern.

This marks the second consecutive year that the Bears and Phantoms will have faced each other in the Atlantic Division Semifinals, with Hershey claiming the series in Game 4 in Allentown en route to winning its 13th Calder Cup. The Bears and Phantoms have met in six previous postseason series, with the Chocolate and White owning a 5-1 series record. Hershey went 5-4-1-0 versus Lehigh Valley in the 2024-25 regular season, and the Bears are looking to become just the second team in the American Hockey League to win three consecutive Calder Cups, joining the 1960-62 Springfield Indians. 

Single-game tickets for the Atlantic Division Semifinals are on sale now for the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs at GIANT Center! Save on tickets and score your seats by purchasing online via Ticketmaster.

Hershey is in the playoffs for a league-record 72nd time, and no team in the league has more than Hershey’s 13 Calder Cup titles.

Let's Go Bears!