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Binghamton Senators
Win AHL's 2011 Calder Cup Championship
June 7, 2011 Posted by: Bob Howard
Credit:
Binghamton Senators |
June 7, 2011 - American Hockey
League (AHL) - Binghamton Senators News Release
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| Robin Lehner wins the MVP of
the Playoffs as the B-Sens win the Calder Cup. |
HOUSTON, Tex. The Binghamton Senators put the exclamation
point on a remarkable turnaround season by capturing the
2011 Calder Cup championship with a 3-2 win over the Houston
Aeros at the Toyota Center in Houston on Tuesday night.
The Senators, who joined the AHL in 2002-03 as the top
development team of the National Hockey League's Ottawa
Senators, had missed the playoffs for five consecutive
seasons entering the 2010-11 campaign but finished it by
earning the city of Binghamton's first championship in 29
years of hosting an American Hockey League franchise.
Binghamton defeated the Aeros four games to two, winning
the final three games in a row and four of the last five
after dropping the series opener. The Senators also
established an AHL record with 10 road victories this
postseason (10-2) and finished 15-4 in their final 19
playoff games overall after falling into a 3-1 deficit
against the Manchester Monarchs in the first round.
Binghamton overcame that deficit - winning all four games of
the series in overtime - before knocking off the Portland
Pirates (4-2) and Charlotte Checkers (4-0) en route to the
Finals match-up with Houston.
Head coach Kurt
Kleinendorst, in his first season with the Senators, guided
his club to the Eastern Conference's crossover playoff berth
after finishing fifth in the East Division with a
regular-season record of 42-30-3-5 (92 points). The
Senators' playoff roster featured 15 players who appeared in
a combined 232 National Hockey League games with the parent
Ottawa Senators during the 2010-11 season.
Senators
rookie goaltender Robin Lehner won the Jack A. Butterfield
Trophy as the most valuable player of the 2011 Calder Cup
Playoffs, finishing 14-4 with a 2.10 goals-against average,
a .939 save percentage, and three shutouts in 19 appearances
this spring. A 19-year-old native of Gothenburg, Sweden,
Lehner was a second-round draft pick (46th overall) by
Ottawa in 2009 and appeared in 22 AHL games for Binghamton
and eight contests for the NHL Senators during the 2010-11
regular season.
Binghamton's Calder Cup victory
brings the curtain down on the AHL's historic 75th season.
In operation since 1936, the AHL continues to serve as the
top development league for all 30 National Hockey League
teams. More than 87 percent of today's NHL players are
American Hockey League graduates, and through the years the
American Hockey League has been home to more than 100
honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
2011
Calder Cup Finals - Series "O" (best-of-7)
W2-Houston
Aeros vs. E5-Binghamton Senators
Game 1 - Fri., May
27 - HOUSTON 3, Binghamton 1
Game 2 - Sat., May 28 -
Binghamton 2, HOUSTON 1 (OT)
Game 3 - Wed., June 1 -
Houston 2, BINGHAMTON 1
Game 4 - Fri., June 3 -
BINGHAMTON 3, Houston 0
Game 5 - Sat., June 4 -
BINGHAMTON 4, Houston 2
Game 6 - Tue., June 7 -
Binghamton 3, HOUSTON 2
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