The Hershey Bears 3-0 over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Injured Hershey Bears captain Steve Oleksy remains listed as day-to-day. Daniel Zampogna, Pennlive

(Daniel Zampogna, Pennlive )

It was an encouraging sight when Hershey Bears captain Steve Oleksy took the ice for Tuesday's practice at Hersheypark Arena.

But the defenseman, who suffered an upper body injury in Game 1 against the Worcester Sharks, merely warmed up before exiting and remains listed as day-to-day.

Bears head coach Troy Mann said he is not ready to rule out Oleksy for Wednesday night's Game 3 at Giant Center.

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He skated for the first 20 minutes, which is an improvement," Mann said. "Went to the doctor yesterday and got checked out. Everything is good. So now it's just a matter of him feeling good enough to play."

The Washington Capitals finished their playoff series against the New York Islanders with a Game 7 win Monday night.

The Bears continue to await word on a potential reassignment of goalie Philipp Grubauer from Washington to Hershey. Mann said he planned to talk to Caps head coach Barry Trotz Tuesday afternoon.

Pheonix Copley and Keegan Asmundson remained the practice tandem Tuesday.

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Based on the fact that we don't know about Grubi, we're going to have to assume that Copley is playing [in Game 3]," Mann said.

"

As of now, it's Copley's game because Grubi's not here."

Lines:

Conner-Kennedy-Galiev

Vrana/Cornet-J. O'Brien-Wellman

Gazley-Newbury-Brown

L. O'Brien-Stephenson/Broda-Mitchell

D-pairs:

Schilling-Burgdoerfer

Landry-Schmidt

Moore-Carrick

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