Ryan Dzingel’s OT Winner Buries Hershey Bears 4-3

What a weekend as the Binghamton Senators won both their games over division opponents with the latest being a 4-3 overtime thriller in Hershey. Scott Greenham earned his second straight win this time stopping 25 shots and Ryan Dzingel was the hero once again scoring a sweet wrister beating goaltender Pheonix Copley in sending the Bears losers on home ice.

GAME RECAP

Ex-Senator Dustin Gazley gets a tip in off of Tomas Kundratek‘s one timer from the point beating Greenham for the 1-0 lead on the power play with Buddy Robinson in the sin bin for slashing. Hershey makes it a 2-0 game a 1:23 later as Chris Conner dishes to Chris Brown in front from behind the net as his quick shot down low scores. Binghamton out shoots the Bears 12-5 in the first but rookie goaltender Pheonix Copley holds down the fort.

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Senators finally scores with Carter Camper and Shane Prince played keep away in exchanging passes with Prince shooting in on Copley as he made the initial save but couldn’t get back into position as Fredrik Claesson played mop up sweeping the puck into the empty net for his third of the season. Copley looked really bad on the play as he was totally drawn out of the front of the net to the side.

Binghamton evens it up with Cole Schneider scoring his 1oth of the season on a sharp angel by Copley’s left side taking a quick feed from Camper in the slot. Camper was in position to take the shot but smartly passed to an open Schneider. Hershey’s Kris Newbury scores the go ahead goal picking up the rebound off of Stanislav Galiev’s wrist shot from the circle.

Alex Grant‘s lethal slap shot finds the top corner of the net to tie the game once again beating Copley with Derek Grant screening in front unattended. Pretty goal as that’s Grant’s fourth of the season on a power play with under five minutes to play in the third as this heads to overtime.

Greenham with a great save as the Senators turn it up ice with Claesson making the go ahead pass to Ryan Dzingel and ends up a three on one when Dzingel hesitates using Connor Carrick as a screen as he’s back pedaling shooting up high far left corner to for the game winner.

NOTES & OBSERVATIONS

• Dzingel looks so smooth scoring the game winner on his quick wrister as he had a three goal weekend in both wins while earning Star of the Game tonight.
• Matt Puempel has been quiet lately remaining scoreless in his last three games.
• Andrew Hammond served as back up for both weekend games. Interesting enough with the addition of Peter Mannino as I covered the scenario here and we’ll see how it all unfolds.
• No Jim O’Brien as he was claimed by the Bears on Friday and will report to the team on Monday. I’m sure he got some games circled on the calendar versus his old organization coming up.
• Binghamton ran the same lines as in Friday’s win and it worked with Camper and Prince playing together making things happen.
• Senators close the gap on frontrunner WB/Scranton Penguins to six points with two games on hand.

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B-SENS LINES

Forwards – Puempel-D Grant-Dziurzynski, Prince-Camper-Schneider, Thompson-Dzingel-Guptill, Kramer-McCormick-Robinson

Defense – Claesson-Grant, Johnson-Mullen, Sdao-Wideman

Out – Brad Mills (ill) and Daniel New.

UP NEXT

Senators face-off on New Years Eve this Wednesday against the Phantoms for a 6:00 pm contest in Binghamton.