The Binghamton Black Bears (8-1-0) defeated the Indiana Sentinels (0-8-1) at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday night by the score of 4-1.

With Loik Plouffe in the penalty box for cross-checking, the Black Bears get the 1-0 lead when Ivan Bondarenko scores the first goal of the game with 3:49 left to go in the first period. Just 6:46 into the second period the Black Bears took a 2-0 lead with CJ Stubbs third goal of the season.

The Sentinels scored their first goal of the game in the 3rd period after a turn over in front of the Black Bears net-minder, Wyatt Friedlander off the stick of Ethan Esposito making this a 2-1 game. The Black Bears get a goal at the 10:10 mark by # 10, Emerson Emery making this a 3-1 game. Mac Jansen scored his seventh goal of the season, an empty net short handed tally with 1:05 left to go in the period, as the Black Bears won 4-1 over the Sentinels.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (7-0-0) defeated the Port Huron Prowlers (5-2-0) in Port Huron on Halloween Night in the first of two meetings at the McMorran Arena this weekend. The Black Bears get on the score-sheet first just 10:27 into the first period after a great pass from Tim Kim to Austin Thompson who scored his 101st career goal.

With Lukas Lancy in the box for slashing, the Black Bears take a 2-0 lead after a tic tac toe passing play which led to a Mac Jansen power play goal. 52 seconds later the Black Bears take a 3-0 lead after Austin Thompson scored his second goal of the night at the 3:53 mark of the period. The Black Bears score their 3rd goal of the period and 4th of the game at the 5:01 mark of the middle period making this a 4-0 game just 5:01 into the middle frame off the stick of Scott Ramaekers. From high slot to low slot, Bondarenko fed Thompson for the hat trick, as the Black bears take a 5-0 lead 9:41 into the period.

With the Prowlers on a 5 on 3 power play, they score their first goal of the game off the stick of the Matt Graham at the 4:58 mark of the 3rd period making this a 5-1 game. Tim Organ scores the Prowlers second goal of the period and game with a shot that beat Tmej's five hole at the 9:36 mark of the final period. Matt Graham scored his second 5 on 3 power play goal of the game making this a 5-3 game with 4:04 left to go in the final period. The Black Bears escape the third period and win 5 to 3 on the spookiest night of the year.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (6-0-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (1-4-1) to win their 6th straight game to start the season in front of a home crowd by the score of 5-2.

The Wolves got the early start to the scoring with a Yefim Mishkin goal just 5:42 in the 1st period as he beat first time pro, Dominik Tmej putting the Wolves up 1-0. With the Wolves goal scorer in the box for tripping, the Black Bears tied up the game with a Gavin Yates power play goal with 5:52 left to go in the period. The Black Bears then get the 2-1 lead as Yates scored his 2nd goal of the game with 2:48 left to go in the 1st period.

The Wolves tie the game up after a Dyan Gutierrez shot made it into the back of the net after a turn over in the neutral zone at the 5:44 mark of the middle period.

In the 3rd period with Egor Filippov in the box for roughing, CJ Stubbs scored his 2nd goal of the season on the man advantage giving the Black Bears a 3-2 just 2:53 into the period. Austin Thompson scored his 100th goal in his pro-career 10:37 into the third period giving the Black Bears a 4-2 lead. With Darion Benchich in the box for Slashing, the Black Bears scored their 3rd power play goal of the game off the stick of Mac Jansen with 7:45 left in the final period giving the Black Bears a 5-2 win, winning their 6th straight game.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (5-0-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (1-3-1) by the score of 5-4 in Watertown, NY on Friday night.

Scott Ramaekers gave the Black Bears a 1 goal lead early, scoring his 2nd goal of the season at the 1:00 minute mark. The Black Bears kept the pressure on early with another goal scored from the blue-line, this time by Jacob Shankar, scoring his first professional goal just 2:10 into the 1st period. After a smart play from CJ Stubbs keeping the puck in the zone, he passed it to Ivan Bondarenko who was able to get the puck past Breandan Colgan for the Black Bears 3rd tally in the period at the 9:51 mark. The Black Bears take a 4-0 lead, with Andre Simonchyk in the box for interference, Gavin Yates scores the man-up goal with 7:10 left in the opening period. Watertown got on the board with 4:38 left to go in the 1st period with a Boston Bird goal after knocking in a rebound from an Andrew Uturo shot to make it 4-1. The Black Bears were not done scoring after a Dan Wieber shot was tipped in by Emerson Emery just 29 seconds after the Wolves first goal making this a 5-1 game.

The Wolves come out quickly scoring their 2nd goal of the game just 14 seconds in off the stick of Egor Filippov making this a 5-2 game. The Wolves then get another goal back with a Steven Klinck goal at the 8:11 mark. Just 49 seconds later former Binghamton Black Bears forward, Darion Benchich scored his 2nd goal of the season against his former team to make this a 5-4 game.

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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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