April 23, 2011 - American Hockey
League (AHL) - News Release via TheAHL.com
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| Ryan Potulny scored the OT
game winner in game 7 sending the B-Sens to the 2nd
round. |
Ryan Potulny scored 3:07 into overtime as Binghamton
completed a historic series victory over the Manchester
Monarchs, advancing to the division finals with a 6-5
decision in Game 7 at the Verizon Wireless Arena.
The
Senators became just the second team in AHL history to win
four OT games in one series, the 16th club to successfully
come back from a 3-1 series deficit, and the sixth to win
Games 6 and 7 of a series on the road.
The series was
also the first one in the 75-year history of the AHL to see
Games 5, 6 and 7 all go to overtime.
Potulny’s
winning goal capped a five-point night, and gave the
Senators forward eight goals and 14 points in the series.
Binghamton jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the second
period was a minute old, but for the second time in the
series saw that advantage erased as Manchester took a 5-4
lead midway through the third.
The Sens got a goal
from Erik Condra – his second of the game and of the
postseason – with 1:45 left in regulation to force the fifth
overtime game of the series (tying another AHL record).
Condra added an assist for three points on the evening,
Ryan Keller had two goals and two assists, Bobby Butler
scored his fourth goal of the series and Colin Greening and
Geoff Kinrade picked up two helpers each for the Senators,
who won their first playoff series since reaching the
conference finals in 2003.
Bud Holloway, Jake Muzzin,
Brandon Kozun, John Zeiler and Dwight King scored for
Manchester, which was hosting a Game 7 for the first time in
the franchise’s 10-year history.
Robin Lehner, coming
off a 51-save effort in Game 6, stopped 32 shots to improve
to 3-0. Jeff Zatkoff made 20 saves on 23 shots in relief of
Martin Jones (13 saves).
Binghamton will face
Portland in the Atlantic Division finals beginning Wednesday
night.
Atlantic Division Semifinal – Series “B”
(best-of-7)
A2-Manchester Monarchs vs. E5-Binghamton
Senators
Game 1 – Thu., Apr. 14 – MANCHESTER 2,
Binghamton 1
Game 2 – Fri., Apr. 15 – Binghamton 4,
MANCHESTER 3 (OT)
Game 3 – Sun., Apr. 17 – Manchester 5,
BINGHAMTON 4 (OT)
Game 4 – Tue., Apr. 19 – Manchester 6,
BINGHAMTON 3
Game 5 – Wed., Apr. 20 – BINGHAMTON 5,
Manchester 4 (OT)
Game 6 – Fri., Apr. 22 – Binghamton 2,
MANCHESTER 1 (2OT)
Game 7 – Sat., Apr. 23 – Binghamton 6,
MANCHESTER 5 (OT)
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