Springfield Falcons Soar Back In 6-5 Win Over Binghamton Senators
By Jeff Ulmer
Binghamton Senators were firing on all cylinders that had them beating the second best goaltender in the league winning 4-1 over a very good Springfield team midway into the second. It all crashed and burned as Falcons score three unanswered goals and ended up 6-5 winners sending the Senators to their third straight loss.
GAME RECAP
Danny New opens up the scoring notching his second of the season with a puck cleared from the crease right to him and slaps home the goal for a 1-0 lead. Alex Grant extends the lead to two with his one time shot from the point for a power play goal as the Senators are cruising. Soon after the Falcons would cut the lead by one as newly required Luke Adam takes a pass from Kerby Rychel and skates the length of the ice and pounds home a high, sharp wrister beating Andrew Hammond cleanly to make it a 2-1 game after one period.
With Springfield’s Josh Anderson in the box for hooking Carter Camper, Senators regain the two goal lead as Patrick Mullen tucks home the rebound in by Anton Forsberg from a shot off the stick of Matt Puempel for a 3-1 lead. Shane Prince gets a stick re-direct from Lukas Sedlak’s lazy attempted lead out pass that finds Camper in front and wrists one to the back of the net over Forsberg’s shoulder for a 4-1 lead. Senators play has forced Forsberg to be pulled in favor of Scott Munroe.
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The move is a favorable one as here comes Springfield less than two minutes later. Anderson’s shot from the blue line is in past Hammond as he was completely screened in front with Mullen failing to move his man. Dana Tyrell scores his eighth of the season taking advantage of a botched pass from Alex Grant trying to get the puck over to Fredrik Claesson off the faceoff. Tyrell and Kerby Rychel skate down the ice for a 2-0 breakaway and shoots five hole beating Hammond as the puck slithers in under him.
Ryan Craig ties up the game as he skates in towards the net and gets what appears to be his skate on Hammond’s ankle that forces the netminder to jump up and the puck slides through past the goal line. Hammond is shaken up and taken out of the game with Scott Greenham coming in cold.
Just 31 seconds into the third Ryan Dzingel’s high wrister from the slot beats Munroe to put the Senators ahead once again 5-4. That would be the last time Binghamton scores though. Ex-Senator Corey Cowick scores his sixth with a pretty front to back shift tap in tight to again tie it up. Rychel breaks the 5-5 score with Alex Grant in the sin bin with a costly delay of game call clearing the puck out of play. A pretty sweet sequence on display as Frederic St. Denis feeds Marko Dano in behind the net, and passes to Rychel in front for a one timer that pushes high over Greenham’s shoulder for the game winner.
NOTES & OBSERVATIONS
- Four goalies played tonight in a very rare occurrence. Hammond forced out due to injury and Forsberg pulled after letting in four goals on 16 shots. Forsberg entered tonight’s game as the second best in the league with a 12-3-0-2 record, 1.66 GAA, 0.940 SV%.
- Hammond has now given up seven goals on the last 17 shots he has faced in 39:50 total minutes of play. He was the victim in Lehigh Valley on Wednesday giving up three goals in the first 36 seconds.
- Senators were real close in a couple of sequences in the second with Munroe coming up big, highlighted by a great kick save on Max McCormick in the crease.
- Springfield with crucial puck possession late in the game as they were rotating players one at a time bottling up a tired Senators line in their zone with under three minutes left to play.
- Binghamton had 33 shots to Falcon’s 30 but in the third the Senators were out shot 14-5.
- Hammond’s injury doesn’t appeared to be serious as he skated off under his own power to the locker room.
- Another game of defensive turnover’s and Hammond’s sub par play as the combination of both is killing this team. Not knowing the answer but something needs to change before the season gets to deep. I’m not 100% confident in Greenham and Chris Dreidger isn’t ready yet.
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT CARD
Binghamton Senators. #20 ALEX GRANT. D. Despite his scoring a goal tonight in the first extending his point scoring streak to nine, he had a costly turnover on the Falcon’s fourth goal that resulted on a 2-0 breakaway to tie up the game. Off the faceoff he whiffed in trying to get the puck over to Claesson and two Falcon’s were off and running. Also a very badly timed penalty that led Springfield to break the tie for the eventual game winner midway in the third period.. Defense
B-SENS LINES
Forwards – Mills-Dzingel-Schneider, Puempel-D Grant-Robinson, Thompson-Camper-Prince, Kramer-McCormick-Dziurzynski
Defense – Claesson-Grant, Johnson-Mullen, New-Wideman
Out – Alex Guptill healthy, Mike Sdao day-to-day.
UP NEXT
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins make it a Saturday night affair as they arrive in Binghamton.
*Cover Pic & Insert Courtesy of SenShot’s Photographer Alicia Strauch