Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Hershey Bears are an American professional ice hockey team based in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They have played in the American Hockey League since its first season as a fully merged league in 1938, and are the longest continuously operating member of the league. The team is owned and operated by the Hershey Bears Hockey Club which was established in 1932 and is currently the oldest professional ice hockey organization in North America outside of those operating the \"Original Six\" clubs of the National Hockey League in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Detroit, which were all established in or before 1926.The Bears currently serve as the primary development club for the NHL's Washington Capitals and have been since the 2005-06 season. Since the 2002–03 season the hockey club's home games have been played at Giant Center, located less than half a mile west of Hersheypark Arena, the AHL club's previous home from 1938 to 2002. (The Arena was also the home to the EAHL Hershey Bears from 1936 to 1938.) The Bears have won 11 Calder Cups, more than any other AHL team. They won their most recent title in 2010.Chocolate manufacturer Milton S. Hershey first established the \"Hershey Hockey Club\" in 1932 to manage pro hockey teams based in Hershey. Now in its ninth decade, it has operated four different teams in three pro leagues, including the AHL Bears. Now called the Hershey Bears Hockey Club, it is a wholly owned sub-division of the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company (originally called \"Hershey Estates\" and later \"HERCO\"), an entity wholly owned and administered by the Hershey Trust Company.Gordie Howe, who was entered into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 and is known as \"Mr. Hockey,\" once remarked, \"Everybody who is anybody in hockey has played in Hershey.\""@en }
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- Hershey_Bears abstract "The Hershey Bears are an American professional ice hockey team based in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They have played in the American Hockey League since its first season as a fully merged league in 1938, and are the longest continuously operating member of the league. The team is owned and operated by the Hershey Bears Hockey Club which was established in 1932 and is currently the oldest professional ice hockey organization in North America outside of those operating the \"Original Six\" clubs of the National Hockey League in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Detroit, which were all established in or before 1926.The Bears currently serve as the primary development club for the NHL's Washington Capitals and have been since the 2005-06 season. Since the 2002–03 season the hockey club's home games have been played at Giant Center, located less than half a mile west of Hersheypark Arena, the AHL club's previous home from 1938 to 2002. (The Arena was also the home to the EAHL Hershey Bears from 1936 to 1938.) The Bears have won 11 Calder Cups, more than any other AHL team. They won their most recent title in 2010.Chocolate manufacturer Milton S. Hershey first established the \"Hershey Hockey Club\" in 1932 to manage pro hockey teams based in Hershey. Now in its ninth decade, it has operated four different teams in three pro leagues, including the AHL Bears. Now called the Hershey Bears Hockey Club, it is a wholly owned sub-division of the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company (originally called \"Hershey Estates\" and later \"HERCO\"), an entity wholly owned and administered by the Hershey Trust Company.Gordie Howe, who was entered into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 and is known as \"Mr. Hockey,\" once remarked, \"Everybody who is anybody in hockey has played in Hershey.\"".