| The Binghamton Black
Bears (17-2-5) lost in the shoot-out to the Danbury Hat Tricks
(12-10-2) at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena on
New Years Eve by the score of 4-3.With Nikita Ivashkin
tagged for a hooking penalty and in the box, the visiting Hat Tricks
got on the score sheet first with a Brandon Stojcevski
power play goal. Just 2 minutes and 22 seconds later, Josh
Fletcher was credited with a goal to tie the game up at 1 a
piece where the puck went up over the back of the net and off the
back of net-minder, Connor McCollum. Tyson
Kirkby took a feed from Austin Thompson as
he was driving in front of the net and was able to lift the puck up
over the shoulder of McCollum to score the Black Bears second goal
of the night at the 14:28 mark of the 2nd period. Thomas
Wray in the last 30 seconds of the 2nd period scored to
make this a 3-1 game going top shelf over McCollum. After a mostly
back and forth 2nd period, only Wray got a puck into the back of the
net. With Binghamton seamingly backing off the offensive pressure to
playing tighter defensively, the Hat Tricks scored their second of
the game with 5:33 left to go in the game to make this a 1 goal
game. Exactly two minutes later with the Black Bears playing still a
passive defense, Kyle Heitzner scored to get this
game tied at 3 goals apiece. At the 19:16 mark, Donald
Olivieri put the Black Bears down a man with a holding
penalty putting the Hat Tricks on the man advantage. Going into the
overtime period, the Black Bears were short-handed but killed the
penalty for 20 seconds until Jonny Ruiz got tagged
with a slashing penalty. The Black Bears then peppered McCollum with
9 shots on goal, but the two teams went to the shoot-out. In the
three round shoot out, it was the Hat Tricks, Connor Woolley
with the only goal in the shoot-out, taking the 2nd win after
regulation for the Hat Tricks this weekend vs. the Black Bears. |
