The Binghamton Black Bears (27-3-0) defeated the Twin City Thunderbirds (11-15-1) in Winston-Salem by the score of 4-1, winning both games that will be played in Winston-Salem this season between the two teams.

The Black Bears opened the scoring on the power play when Tyson Kirkby redirected a Gavin Yates shot at 5:58 of the first period, with Josh Labelle serving a hooking minor. Later in the frame, Ivan Bondarenko forced a turnover behind the net and fed Kirkby, who buried his second of the game to extend the lead to 2–0 with 9:57 remaining in the period.

Following a neutral-zone turnover by the Black Bears, Zach White put Twin City on the board during 4-on-4 play just 1:12 into the second period to cut the deficit to 2–1. Later in the frame, Gavin Yates restored the two-goal cushion with his 20th of the season, finishing a setup from Kyle Stephan to make it 3–1 with 7:16 remaining in the period.

With Dionne Demke serving a tripping minor, the Black Bears added their fourth goal of the night as Nick Swain scored his 11th of the season on the power play. Time expired on the Thunderbirds, and Binghamton closed out a 4–1 victory to complete the weekend sweep in Winston-Salem.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (26-3-0) defeated the Twin City Thunderbirds (11-14-1) in Winston-Salem on Friday in a defensive battle, 3-1.

The Black Bears get on the score-board first with Nick Swain's 10th goal of the season just 9:02 in the 1st period.

Gehrett Sargis scored his 5th goal of the season at the 7:22 mark of the middle period to give the Black Bears a 2-0 lead. With Austin D'Orazio in the penalty box for slashing, Michael Kocsis scored the Thunderbirds first goal of the game and it was on the power play with nine minutes left to go in the period making this a 2-1 game.

With Boris Babik pulled at the 18:10 mark and the Thunderbirds looking for the game tying goal, with 41 second left to go in the period, the puck landed on Dan Stone's stick and sent a laser to the empty-net securing a Black Bears 3-1 victory.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (25-3-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (10-15-2) in Watertown on Saturday night by the score of 8-3.

While CJ Stubbs was in front of the net with his stick planted firmly on the ice, Austin D'Orazio sent the puck over to Stubbs who put it past Wolves net-minder Breandan Colgan for the games first goal at the 4:16 mark of the first period.

With Ian McDonald in the penalty box for holding, Austin D'Orazio scored his 13th goal, which is his 10th man-up goal of the season giving the Black Bears a 2-0 lead just 2:16 into the 2nd period.

The Black Bears take a 3-0 lead after Gavin Yates scores his 18th of the season, scoring top shelf on Colgan at the 4:50 mark of the 3rd period. On an odd-man rush for the Wolves, they get on the scoreboard with an Egor Filippov goal making this a 3-1 game at the 6:01 mark of the third period. Just 19 seconds later, the Black Bears get their 3 goal lead back with Tyson Kirkby's 8th of the season making this game 4-1. CJ Stubbs scored the Black Bears 5th goal of the game, his 22nd of the season making it a 5-1 game at the 8:49 mark. The Wolves strike back quickly with a Darion Benchich goal just 21 seconds after the Stubbs goal making it a 5-2 game. Zac Sirota scored his 10th goal of the season at the 11:05 mark of the 3rd period, giving the Black Bears a four goal lead again. Just 40 seconds later, Dan Wieber got his second goal of the season giving the Black Bears a 7-2 lead. The Wolves added their 3rd goal of the period off the stick of Hunter Hall with 7:37 left to go in the game. With 35 second left in the period, Gavin Yates added his second goal of the game ending the scoring at 9 goals in the final period but with a Black Bears 8-3 victory.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (24-3-0) lost to the Watertown Wolves (10-13-2) in Watertown Friday after a 3 goal third period by the Wolves, 4-3.

The Black Bears score first in Watertown, Gavin Yates gives the visiting team the early 1-0 lead just 6:43 into the 1st period. Zac Sirota scores five-hole on Breadan Colgan on the power play making this a 2-0 game with 37 seconds left in the period.

The Wolves got on the score-board with a Chase DiBari goal 9:34 into the second period making this a 2-1 game. While Ian McDonald was in the penalty box for tripping Gavin Yates, Zac Sirota scored his 2nd power play goal of the game with 6:27 left to go in the period.

The Wolves pull within one goal with a Hunter Hall tally just 3:40 into the 3rd period making this a 3-2 game. The Wolves get power play goal, with Sirota in the penalty box for hooking, making this a 3-3 game off the stick of Egor Filippov. The Wolves get the go ahead goal from Yefim Mishkin with 5:04 left to go in the period, securing the Wolves victory and ending the Black Bears winning streak at 15.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (23-2-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (9-13-2) in Watertown on Saturday night winning their 14th consecutive game.

Jake Shultz, the former Black Bear Captain gets the Wolves on the score-sheet first early in the game at the 1:44 mark after he tipped the puck in out of mid air. The Black Bears get their first goal of the game on a partial breakaway from Zac Sirota who sent the puck past Brendan Colgan just below his glove scoring his 6th goal of the season at the 7:26 mark of the first period. With 4:25 left to go in the period, Austin Thompson on another Black Bears breakaway comes in and shoots top shelf to score his 14th goal of the season giving the Black Bears a 2-1 lead.

The Black Bears get their third goal of the game off the stick of CJ Stubbs who scored his 20th goal of the season, 4th of the weekend at the 3:03 mark of the middle period. The Black Bears take a 3 goal lead off of Kyle Stephan's 3rd goal of the season as he sent a snipe past Colgan at the 6:35 mark of the second period.

With the Wolves Ryan Gill still serving his 4 minutes from the second period, the Black Bears score near the end of the second period, CJ Stubbs makes him pay with his 21st goal of the season and his 8th on the man-advantage just 1:25 into the final period. After the Wolves challenged the goal and lost the challenge, the Black Bears were back on the power play and scored their second straight power play goal off the stick of Mac Jansen at the 2:11 mark of the period.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (22-2-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (9-12-2) in Watertown on Friday night winning their 13th game in a row.

The Black Bears score first at the 2:26 mark of the 1st period, a man-up goal from CJ Stubbs scoring his 17th goal of the season while the Wolves Adam Zimmerman was in the penalty box for holding. Austin D'Orazio scores his 12th goal of the season, also on the power play, his 9th power play goal making this a 2-0 game. With 1:15 left to go in the 1st period, Gehrett Sargis scored his 3rd goal of the season to make this a 3-0 lead over the Wolves.

The Black Bears score their 4th goal of the game at the 3:56 mark of the middle period off the stick of CJ Stubbs, his second goal of the game and 18th of the season just 3:56 into the period. CJ Stubbs scored his hat-trick goal at the 7:46 mark of the second period, his 19th goal of the season and his second hat trick of the season. Brad Reitter scored on an odd man rush at the 9:23 mark of the second period making this a 5-1 game. After the Black Bears challenged and lost the challenge, the Wolves scored their second goal of the game, this time on the power play off the stick of Hunter Hall at the 10:44 mark.

With Jake Shultz in the penalty box, the Wolves Yefim Mishkin scores the Wolves third goal of the game while the Wolves short-handed. The Black Bears score their 6th goal of the game after a great pass from Gehrett Sargis to Mac Jansen for Jansen's 18th goal of the season at 7:12 mark of the 3rd period.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (21-2-0) defeated the Danbury Hat Tricks (9-11-3) by a lop-sided margin of 11-3 on Ugly Christman Sweater Night at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena on Saturday night.

The Black Bears first goal of the game came at the 6:56 mark of the first off a strange bounce which was a shot sent in from CJ Stubbs, scoring his 16th goal of the season. Just 25 second later the Black Bears get their second goal of the game, Mac Jansen's 17th of the season making this a 2-0 game. The Hat Tricks get their first of the game with 5:49 left to go in the period making this a 2-1 game off the stick of Alexander Legkov.

Jesse Anderson scored the Black Bears third goal just 1:48 into the middle period making this a 3-1 Black Bears lead. The Hat Tricks then scored their 2nd goal of the game 6:46 into the period off the stick of Anton Rubtsov. Kyle Stephan scored his second goal of the season making it a 4-2 game with 7:59 left to go in the second period. The long awaited first goal for Gehrett Sargis came with 3:49 left to go in the period making this a 5-2 game.

With one second to go in a power play, Austin D'Orazio scores the Black Bears 6th goal of the game with 1:29 left to go making this a 6-2 game. Dan Stone took a rare tripping penalty and Jonny Ruiz made the Black Bears pay with their third goal of the game just 1:04 into the period. With Austin Pickford in the box for high-sticking, Austin D'Orazio scored his second power play goal of the game at the 5:52 mark of the final period. Gehrett Sargis scored his 2nd goal of the game and season at the 7:41 mark before Tyson Kirkby scored his 7th goal of the season on the power play just 42 seconds later making this a 9-3 contest. Then Connor McAnanama dumped the puck to Dan Wieber who sent it all the way down the ice to Nick Swain, who then undressed a Danbury defender before scoring an amazing goal to make this a 10-3 game at the 8:56 mark of the 3rd period. The scoring was not done as Zac Sirota scored the Black Bears 11th goal of the game with 4:06 left to go making this an 11-3 win for the Black Bears.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (20-2-0) defeated the Danbury Hat Tricks (9-10-3) in the 8th meeting between the two teams by the score of 4-2.

The Black Bears get on the score-sheet first with Zac Sirota's 4th goal of the season just 1:28 into the 1st period. With the Hat Tricks Alexander Legkov in the penalty box for hooking, CJ Stubbs scored his 14th goals of the season making this a 2-0 just 10:11 into the game.

The Black Bears take a three to nothing lead with a goal from the Captain Tyson Kirkby who scored his 6th goal of the season just 4:08 into the second period. The Hat Tricks get on the score-board with a Jonny Ruiz goal 9:25 into the middle period. Ruiz then scored the Hat Tricks goal just under four minutes later tightening the game to 3-2.

With the Hat Tricks net-minder Kyle Penton pulled for an extra attacker, CJ Stubbs scores the Black Bears fourth goal, the insurance goal with 43 seconds left to go in the game securing the Black Bears 20th win of the season and 11th win in a row.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (19-2-0) defeated the Danbury Hat Tricks (9-9-3) on Teddy Bear Toss Night in Binghamton by the score of 8-3.

The Teddy Bears came flying at the 11:26 mark of the 1st period as the Black Bears scored first with Nick Swain's third goal of the season making this a 1-0 game. With Genaro Fronduto in the penalty box for high-sticking, Mac Jansen scored his 15th goal of the season making this a 2-0 game just 3 minutes and 27 seconds after the Swain goal. Nick Swain made it a 3-0 game with 4:13 left to go in the period scoring his 2nd goal of the game. With 11 seconds left to go in the period, Mac Jansen scored his 16th goal of the season to make this a 4-0 lead for the Black Bears.

With Nick Swain in the penalty box serving a 5 minute major penalty from a D'Orazio elbow on the Hat Tricks Rubtsov, the Hat Tricks break up the Black Bears scoring streak with a Noah Robinson goal 8:26 into the middle period. The Black Bears get that goal back with Swain's hat trick goal at the 13:31 mark making this a 5-1 game. Kyle Stephan scored his first goal of the season just 9 seconds after the Swain hat trick goal. Swain was not done, repeating what Gavin Yates did the week before, scoring his 4th goal of the game with 2:35 left to go in the middle period.

Just 4 minutes and 18 seconds into the third period, the Black Bears went up 8-1 with Jesse Anderson's 2nd goal of the season. The Hat Tricks scored their second goal of the game off the stick of Jordon Kromm at the 11:53 mark of the final period making this an 8-2 game. Then Gregory Susinski took one last shot at Binghamton net-minder Dominik Tmej scoring the Hat Tricks 3rd and final goal of the game with less than 1 second left on the clock, making this an 8-3 final, as the Black Bears win their 19th game of the season and 10th in a row.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (18-2-0) defeated the Danbury Hat Tricks (9-9-2) in a shoot-out after 65 was not enough to declare a winner.

Starting this game off with the Black Bears on the power play, the Hat Tricks score first with a short-handed goal from Noah Robinson. Then just 52 seconds later, the Hat Tricks take a 2-0 lead with a goal from Austan Bellefeuille 10:25 into the first period. The Black Bears Captain, Tyson Kirkby scored his 4th goal of the season with 7:38 left to go in the period making this a 2-1 game.

Neither team scored in the middle period, though the Black Bears out shot the Hat Tricks 17-3.

The Black Bears tie the game up with 3:32 left to go in the game as Tyson Kirkby scores again in front of the net making this a 2-2 game. After neither team could score in the 5 minute over time period, the Black Bears secured the 3-2 shoot out win after CJ Stubbs scored on Resar as the Black Bears second shooter in the shoot-out.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (17-2-0) defeated the Port Huron Prowlers (11-9-0) Saturday night at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena by the score of 3-1.

The Prowlers start the scoring in this game with a weak goal that trickled between the legs of Dominik Tmej at the 4:54 mark of the 1st period off the stick of Reggie Milette. With Austin Fetterly in the penalty box for a double minor for high-sticking, the Black Bears tie the game with an Austin D'Orazio power play goal with 8:59 to go in the first period. Then with Alex Johnson in the box for Unsportsmanlike Conduct, the Black Bears get another power play goal from a defenseman as Dan Stone cashes in with 2:53 to go in the 1st period making this a 2-1 game.

 With Timothy Organ in the penalty box for High-Sticking, Zac Sirota scored his 3rd goal of the season, a power play goal making this a 3-1 game with 2:47 left to go in the period.

There was no score in the 3rd period as the Black Bears and Prowlers shared some power play opportunities with the Black Bears getting the win, 3-1.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (16-2-0) defeated the Port Huron Prowlers (11-8-0) in a lop-sided 9-1 game at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday night.

The Black Bears get on the score sheet first with a Gavin Yates rebound goal after Nick Swain took a nice shot that the Prowlers net-minder Reid Cooper put right on the stick of Yates just 2:12 into the first period. The Black Bears made it 2-0 nothing after a CJ Stubbs goal just 1 minute and 39 seconds later. Gavin Yates scored his 2nd goal of the game 9:28 into the 1st period after coming all the way into the zone, throwing a deke around a Prowler defenseman before going five hole past Reid Cooper to make this a 3-0 game.

The second period starts with a Port Huron goal, 4:33 into the period Luke James scored to make it a 3-1 game. With Matt Graham in the penalty box for hooking, only the games 3rd penalty and the Black Bears first power play opportunity, Austin D'Orazio scores his 8th goal of the season and his 5th man-up goal. Gavin Yates scored his hat trick goal at the 8:23 mark of the middle period, the Black Bears 4th hat trick of the season and his 3rd as a Black Bear. With Dan Wieber in the penalty box for tripping, the Black Bears scored their third short-handed goal of the season, scored by CJ Stubbs with 1:43 left to go in the period to make this a 6-1 game.

Austin Thompson scored his 13th goal of the season, on the power play with Timothy Organ in the box for Roughing at the 3:41 mark of the 3rd period. Gavin's hot hand gave him a four goal game scoring his 4th goal just 5:02 in the 3rd period making this an 8-1 lead for the Black Bears. Zac Sirota got into the party with the Black Bears 9th goal on the power play with the Prowlers Nicholas Favaro in the box for holding, giving the Black Bears a 9-1 victory the 2nd place Prowlers.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (15-2-0) defeated the Twin City Thunderbirds (4-10-0) on Saturday night in Binghamton in the first game of the season between the two finalists from the last two Commissioner's Cup Championship series.

After the Black Bears dominate the first 7 minutes of the period, the Thunderbirds score the games first goal on their 2nd shot of the game, a rebound goal from Don Carter Jr, 8:04 into the 1st period. The Black Bears don't take long to tie the game back up with a CJ Stubbs even strength goal with 9:40 left to go in the period making this a 1-1 game.

With Jesse Anderson in the penalty box for tripping, the Thunderbirds score their 2nd goal of the game off the stick of Jacob Schnapp who cleaned up a rebound in front of Connor McAnanama 2:05 into the middle frame. Just 3 minutes and 15 seconds later the Thunderbirds took a 3-1 lead with a James Farmer-Valente goal. The Black Bears then started a 3 goal scoring fest scoring in just 2 minutes and 6 seconds from Scott Ramaekers, then two power play goals from Austin D'Orazio and Gavin Yates which made this a 4-3 game. The Thunderbirds tied the game up at 4 with a power play goal from Jan Salak 8:57 into the second period.

The Black Bears regain the lead 5:36 into the 3rd period with Jesse Anderson's first goal of the season making this a 5-4 game. The Black Bears defense tightens for the next 14:24 of the period and the Black Bears win their 6th game in a row improving to 15-2.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (14-2-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (5-7-2) in Watertown on Friday night by the score of 4-1 with a returning Zac Sirota scoring the game winner.

The Black Bears opened the scoring first with a short-handed goal from Austin Thompson with just 8:31 left to go in the period making this a 1-0 game.

The Wolves get their first goal of the game 4:21 into the middle period as Steven Klinck received an east to west pass from Boston Bird to score making this a 1-1 game. The Black Bears get the lead back from the returning Zac Sirota who scored his first goal of the season at the 9:21 mark of the 1st period. With Chris Corgan in the box for High-Sticking Gavin Yates, CJ Stubbs scores his 9th goal of the season, his 5th man-up goal making this a 3-1 game with 7:02 left to go in the second period.

The Black Bears get another goal from the 3rd line as Emerson Emery and Nick Swain work from their own end of the ice into the offensive zone with Swain getting his second goal of the season with 7:11 to go in the game. The Black Bears improve to 14-2-0 with 41 points and win their 5th consecutive game.

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The Binghamton Black Bears netminder Connor McAnanama has played in 15 playoffs game in his pro-career, which is 6th all-time in Binghamton hockey history. Even though C-Mac has only played in 15 playoff games it still ranks him, 6th just Ken Holland (36), Peter Sidorkiewicz (28), the late Ray Emery (22), Robin Lehner (19) and Mark "Trees" LaForest (19). With his 909 minutes played, that also put him 6th behind the same fore-mentioned net-minders. When it comes to wins, Ken Holland is 1st all time with 16 wins, then C-Mac and Robin Lehner both have 14 wins tied for second. You can give the nod to C-Mac for having done it in only 15 games vs. Robin's 19 games.

Connor's ranks #1 in Save % with .947, only Jamie Ram matched his but it was only 1 game in a relief effort. Only 3 players have a sub 2 Goals Against Average, again Jamie Ram with 1.76, Taylor Joseph a 1.83 with the Black Bears in their 2nd season and then 1.65 for Connor McAnanama who has played more games and has the best overall GAA of the 38 net-minders who have laced up the skates to defend the pipes for a Binghamton team in the last 52 years. Lastly Connor and Robin are #1 and #2 in shutouts in the playoffs with 4 for C-Mac and 3 for Lehner, cementing that if you have great goal-tending and team defense, winning championships are a destiny.

In only 15 games played, C-Mac's performance has changed the landscape of Binghamton Hockey history, and if a three-peat were to happen, his #'s will likely only get better.

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