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Day After Game Report: Sensing a Trend? March 29, 2025 | ||||||
Posted by: Bob Howard Credit: Binghamton Hockey.net | ||||||
March 29, 2025 - by Bob Howard - BinghamtonHockey.net
The Binghamton Black Bears won their 45th game last night. They defeated the Danbury Hat Tricks 6-3. And unlike the March 14th game, there seemed to be a little more intensity to last night’s game. A sense of urgency from the Black Bears when they saw themselves down by 2 in the middle period. Some physicality that happened as the two teams were battling on the boards and in the corners. It just felt like, Danbury had to get the game more physical as they were worried that the Black Bears would come back and start to run away with the game. The Black Bears didn’t shy away from the physicality as well. They wanted to put the screws to the Hat Tricks and prove once again, they to can play the physical game and produce goals. Let’s be honest, a good fore-check can produce an opening down low that allows a skilled shooter the ability to snag goals. Last night, the Hat Tricks scored first. They were not on the power play, they were even strength. A mistake by the Hat Tricks should have led to a “Too Many Men on the Ice” two minute minor, but the referees and both linesmen did not catch it. In the video, you can see when Vasilyev scores, there was 6 Hat Tricks skaters on the ice, four of the skaters were in the offensive zone, Vasilyev had Dale Deon beat in front of Connor McAnanama and the other two skaters when he scored were in the neutral zone and you can see all six skaters celebrate at the same time. This happens, teams when your in the 2nd period mess up the changes all the time, but the referees have to be better than this. The goal should have been waived off and a penalty called. But it wasn’t and we move on. Chase Harwell, a player that can be a thorn in the side of the Black Bears scored just over 4 minutes later and the Black Bears were down two to nothing. But the game was ramping up and getting a little more physical, getting more open on the ice as well and that’s when 56 seconds after Harwell scored, Dan Wieber takes a shot, scores the Black Bears first goal of the game. Wieber’s second goal of the season was all the Black Bears needed, it broke their damn and their skill took over. Chris Mott scored his 13th goal, not an unlucky goal but the game tying goal and his celly was top notch. With Kyle Stephan in the box for interference in the middle period, the Black Bears scored their 15th short-handed goal of the season off the stick of Austin Thompson. That was the Black Bears 15th shorty, their first since February 28th and it was Thommer’s 4th man down goal of the season. The Black Bears are deadly on the penalty kill with only the Hat Tricks remotely close to them in this category.
There were three fights in this game. In the 1st period Dan Wieber tussled with Chase Harwell, not a great fight for either guy but Harwell got the instigator after Ruiz was pushed into the boards before the two dropped their gloves. The other two fights were in the 3rd period with Scott Ramaekers and Josh Newberg dropping their gloves 7:46 into the final period with Ramaekers getting the extra in that tilt for roughing. With 13:13 left to go and with what seemed like a player leaving the bench with the sole purpose to fight and not complete a hockey play, Noah Robinson left the Hat Tricks bench to fight Donald Olivieri. We have seen this before, last season and it resulted in the Black Bears having to be down a roster spot for 6 games due to the penalty. But with the referees missing what they missed already in the game, the penalty was not called and the Don Father and Robinson went at it. Did the Black Bears win all the fights? It doesn’t matter, their goal isn’t to win fights, it’s to win games and pocket trophies. Listen, in the end, only nerds like myself are going to remember coming from behind, something the Black Bears did so many times last season. Just check out the championship ring, it has it marked on them in remembrance. What people are going to remember is that they were one of 4,893, the 8th time this season the Black Bears have sold out where their team scored 6, won the game and everyone went home happy. Tonight the two teams meet in Danbury for their 10th game of the season, the Black Bears have taken 7 of the 9 meetings and look to make it 8. They will travel down later today and play in one of the most hostile Arenas in the league. They have everything wrapped up, this is just about winning games and keeping the Hat Tricks momentum down.
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