The Binghamton Black Bears (2-0-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (0-1-1) in the North Country of upstate New York by the score of 7-3 completing the weekend sweep of the Wolves.

The Wolves Jake Shultz was tagged with a tripping call just 29 seconds into the game leading to a Mac Jansen power play goal just 54 seconds into the game. The Black Bears take a 2-0 lead at the 2:21 mark after Austin Thompson's 2nd goal of the season as he cleaned up a rebound shot by Mac Jansen. With Jesse Anderson in the penalty box for hooking, the Wolves score a power play goal off the stick of an undefended Steven Klinck who has now scored 3 goals against the Black Bears this weekend. Tying the game up at 2-2 for the Wolves with a Dylan Gutierrez that was reviewed by the referees but was called a good goal at the 10:49 mark of the 1st period. Defenseman, Camron Cervone scored the Black Bears first goal for a blue-liner to make this a Binghamton 3-2 lead with 6:28 left to go in the 1st.

With only 17 seconds to go in the middle period, former Binghamton Black Bears forward, Darion Benchich scored on his former team getting the Wolves and the Black Bears tied at 3 before the 2nd intermission.

With Jake Shultz again in the penalty box, the Black Bears pulled ahead of the Wolves once again with their 2nd power play goal of the game as CJ Stubbs was alone in the slot. The Black Bears then extend their lead at the 4:56 mark of the final period with Tim Kim's first professional goal making this a 5-3 Black Bears lead. Just over 5 minutes later at the 10:02 mark of the final period, Tim Kim scored his second goal of the season. The Black Bears lead grew at the 16:56 mark with Austin Thompson's 2nd goal of the game making this a 7-4 game.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (1-0-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (0-0-1) in a shoot-out in front of a sell out crowd on Banner Raising Ceremony night in Binghamton, NY.

With 8:06 left to go in the 1st period, the Watertown Wolves go up first with an unassisted goal from Steven Klink. The Black Bears then return the favor with their first goal of the season, scored by the Captain Tyson Kirkby with 6:03 left to go in the 1st period.

Quickly into the 2nd period, the Black Bears took the lead with Austin Thompson getting on the score-sheet with his first goal of the season at the 2:51 mark. Just nine seconds later the Wolves tied the game at two with a Brad Reitter shot after the puck was turned over in the slot right in front of Connor McAnanama. Kirkby scored his 2nd goal of the game putting the Black Bears up 3 to 2 at the 6:53 mark of the 2nd period. The Black Bears take a 2 goal lead at 4-2 with the hat-trick goal for the Captain, Tyson Kirkby with 8:35 left to go in the middle period.

The Wolves get to within one goal with Klink's second goal of the night to make this a 4-3 Black Bears lead just 6:54 into the 3rd period. With Ivan Bondarenko in the box for Slashing, the Wolves tie the game up at 4 goals a piece with a Jake Shultz power play goal with 7:09 left in the 3rd period.

The overtime period had almost as many penalties with three as shots on goal which was 6 but no one was able to put this game away with an overtime goal.

The Black Bears only needed two shooters in the skills competition to end the game. CJ Stubbs took the first attempt, missing after coming in wide on the Wolves net-minder, Breandan Colgan. But it was the new guy, Mac Jansen who came straight in on Colgan, and then lifted the puck up, was able to get the puck past Colgan for the only goal of the shoot out. McAnanama stopped all three of the Watertown Wolves shooters, securing the 5-4 win for the defending Commissioner's Cup Champions.

The Binghamton Black Bears announced that the first home game of the 25-26 season will be October 10th vs. the Watertown Wolves. In this game like last season vs. the Wolves, the Black Bears will raise their 24-25 Championship banner.

Last season on the home opener, the Black Bears lost to the Wolves just after raising the franchises first Commissioner's Cup banner. The rest of the schedule should be approved and out sometime next week or the first week of July.

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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