Fans go all out for a crazy Teddy Bear Toss on Sunday night!

These are the kind of moments that make you proud to be a hockey fan.

On Sunday night the Binghamton Devils were facing off against the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League but this was not your typical AHL game. There was a palpable tension in the air that you don't normally feel at a hockey game and it actually had very little to do with what was going on the ice and instead had a great deal to do with the fans in attendance. You see today, December 2nd, marked the day that the Bears were holding their annual Teddy Bear Toss and their hometown fans in attendance were all sitting on their hands trying to control what must have been very itchy trigger fingers. 

The fans in attendance were all armed with god knows how many stuff animals that they were just waiting to throw on the ice, all for a good cause of course, but that required the Bears to find the back of the net first. As is tradition the local team must score a goal before the fans begin to rain the bears down onto the ice and thankfully the fans in Hershey didn't have to wait very long at all this year. 

Although it was the Binghamton Devils who managed to get on the board first the Bears did not need long to respond and tied the game up at 1 goal a piece at almost the exact midway point of the very 1st period. The Bears set up a good scoring chance with some nice passing along the blue line and that scoring chance led to a juicy rebound that was quickly pounced on to put the Bears on the board. 

Now I have seen plenty of Teddy Bear Tosses in my lifetime but I would not be surprised if the Bears set some kind of record for their Teddy Bear Toss this evening as they simply did not seem to ever stop coming. Fans began to flood the ice with bears and by the time everyone was done tossing you could see mounds of bears on either side of the ice.

Update: The Bears have established a new world record. 

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