Bridgeport Embarrass Binghamton Senators By A Touchdown

Ya, you knew it was coming.

The Bridgeport Sound Tigers crush the Binghamton Senators 7-1 today as the embarrassing loss closed out the weekend with the Senators earning four out of six points. Goaltender Peter Mannino was in the whole way as the depleted line up could only do so much featuring two defensemen playing forward position as the team’s modest three game win streak comes to an end.

GAME RECAP

Senators fall behind just 2:19 in the first when Sound Tigers’ Kael Mouillierat cradles the puck from behind the net lacrosse style on his backhand and swings his stick around past goaltender Peter Mannino’s shoulder into the net for a 1-0 Bridgeport lead. A little more than two minutes later, Bridgeport goes up by two as forward Mike Halmo dishes to Alan Quine in the slot and his backhand swing goes far post and in as Binghamton calls a timeout to help settle things down.

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It works when Alex Guptill and Buddy Robinson finds themselves on a two on one as Guptill feeds the puck over to Robinson and puts it into the half-open net by netminder Kevin Poulin to cut the lead by one. Soon after Bridgeport strikes back by way of defenseman Griffin Reinhart as he lobs the puck at the net from the point and it carries in with a set screen in front as Mannino never reacted as it’s now a 3-1 game.

Binghamton finds themselves on the short end of a five on three with Mike Sdao and Brad Mills in the box but effectively kill it off as we are in the second period. After a faceoff in the offensive zone, Guillaume Lepine drops the mitts with Mark Louis and makes quick work landing several jabs knocking Louis to the ice with Lepine falling on top.

Quine scores his second of the afternoon with him curling from circle to circle against the grain and relies on the backhander once again beating Mannino for a 4-1 contest. Things continue to slip for the Senators when Mannino allows a soft goal from the point by defenseman Aaron Ness as his innocent wrister finds the back of the net. Then Derek Grant is on the receiving end of a slashing call in closing out the middle frame of play.

Senators kill off the late call as Ryan Dzingel skates into the zone and clangs one off the crossbar in the beginning of the third period. Bridgeport goes on the power play with Max McCormick in the sin bin and connect when Sebastian Collberg’s one timer from the middle is stopped but John Persson is there potting home the rebound from his knees to make it 6-1.

After the Sound Tigers’ touchdown, forward Mike Halmo waits out a sliding Troy Rutkowski to go by and passes to Johan Sundstrom on the other side of the cage and buries it home making the shot good for the extra point as Bridgeport dominates in today’s win.

NOTES & OBSERVATIONS

• Mouillierat’s first period goal pretty sweet looking as it has rarely been pulled off but something you see at an All-Star event when players go one on one with the goaltender.
• Zack Smith called back for Ottawa as he most likely will get some ice in the Senators game against the San Jose Sharks on Monday.
• Late in the third period, Sdao knocks Colton Gillies into Mannino for a three-man collision with Sdao knocking into the side of the net knocking it off its moorings. Mannino and Gillies shake it off after being laid out on the ice, but Sdao quickly skates to the locker room in pain.
• Game lacked emotion with two teams going through the motions in the third as both clubs wrap up a three in three weekend letting the score dictate the play.
• Lepine and Danny New filling in on the fourth line with Danny Hobbs centering. That’s pretty bad as Senators short on bodies offensively.
• Senators on the short side of things in many categories today including the shot totals favoring the Sound Tigers 41-32.
• Forward Dustin Jeffrey had five assists to lead the way for the Sound Tigers which has to be a club record for Bridgeport.

B-SENS LINES

Forwards – Prince-Grant-Schneider, Thompson-McCormick-Mills, Guptill-Dzingel-Robinson, Lepine-Hobbs-New

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

Out – Matt Tassone and David Dziurzynski; Carter Camper, Patrick Mullen and Darren Kramer, all banged up.

UP NEXT

A pair of home games await the Senators next weekend beginning with Friday’s contest against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

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