The Binghamton Black Bears (17-2-0) defeated the Port Huron Prowlers (11-9-0) Saturday night at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena by the score of 3-1.

The Prowlers start the scoring in this game with a weak goal that trickled between the legs of Dominik Tmej at the 4:54 mark of the 1st period off the stick of Reggie Milette. With Austin Fetterly in the penalty box for a double minor for high-sticking, the Black Bears tie the game with an Austin D'Orazio power play goal with 8:59 to go in the first period. Then with Alex Johnson in the box for Unsportsmanlike Conduct, the Black Bears get another power play goal from a defenseman as Dan Stone cashes in with 2:53 to go in the 1st period making this a 2-1 game.

 With Timothy Organ in the penalty box for High-Sticking, Zac Sirota scored his 3rd goal of the season, a power play goal making this a 3-1 game with 2:47 left to go in the period.

There was no score in the 3rd period as the Black Bears and Prowlers shared some power play opportunities with the Black Bears getting the win, 3-1.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (16-2-0) defeated the Port Huron Prowlers (11-8-0) in a lop-sided 9-1 game at the Visions Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday night.

The Black Bears get on the score sheet first with a Gavin Yates rebound goal after Nick Swain took a nice shot that the Prowlers net-minder Reid Cooper put right on the stick of Yates just 2:12 into the first period. The Black Bears made it 2-0 nothing after a CJ Stubbs goal just 1 minute and 39 seconds later. Gavin Yates scored his 2nd goal of the game 9:28 into the 1st period after coming all the way into the zone, throwing a deke around a Prowler defenseman before going five hole past Reid Cooper to make this a 3-0 game.

The second period starts with a Port Huron goal, 4:33 into the period Luke James scored to make it a 3-1 game. With Matt Graham in the penalty box for hooking, only the games 3rd penalty and the Black Bears first power play opportunity, Austin D'Orazio scores his 8th goal of the season and his 5th man-up goal. Gavin Yates scored his hat trick goal at the 8:23 mark of the middle period, the Black Bears 4th hat trick of the season and his 3rd as a Black Bear. With Dan Wieber in the penalty box for tripping, the Black Bears scored their third short-handed goal of the season, scored by CJ Stubbs with 1:43 left to go in the period to make this a 6-1 game.

Austin Thompson scored his 13th goal of the season, on the power play with Timothy Organ in the box for Roughing at the 3:41 mark of the 3rd period. Gavin's hot hand gave him a four goal game scoring his 4th goal just 5:02 in the 3rd period making this an 8-1 lead for the Black Bears. Zac Sirota got into the party with the Black Bears 9th goal on the power play with the Prowlers Nicholas Favaro in the box for holding, giving the Black Bears a 9-1 victory the 2nd place Prowlers.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (15-2-0) defeated the Twin City Thunderbirds (4-10-0) on Saturday night in Binghamton in the first game of the season between the two finalists from the last two Commissioner's Cup Championship series.

After the Black Bears dominate the first 7 minutes of the period, the Thunderbirds score the games first goal on their 2nd shot of the game, a rebound goal from Don Carter Jr, 8:04 into the 1st period. The Black Bears don't take long to tie the game back up with a CJ Stubbs even strength goal with 9:40 left to go in the period making this a 1-1 game.

With Jesse Anderson in the penalty box for tripping, the Thunderbirds score their 2nd goal of the game off the stick of Jacob Schnapp who cleaned up a rebound in front of Connor McAnanama 2:05 into the middle frame. Just 3 minutes and 15 seconds later the Thunderbirds took a 3-1 lead with a James Farmer-Valente goal. The Black Bears then started a 3 goal scoring fest scoring in just 2 minutes and 6 seconds from Scott Ramaekers, then two power play goals from Austin D'Orazio and Gavin Yates which made this a 4-3 game. The Thunderbirds tied the game up at 4 with a power play goal from Jan Salak 8:57 into the second period.

The Black Bears regain the lead 5:36 into the 3rd period with Jesse Anderson's first goal of the season making this a 5-4 game. The Black Bears defense tightens for the next 14:24 of the period and the Black Bears win their 6th game in a row improving to 15-2.

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The Binghamton Black Bears (14-2-0) defeated the Watertown Wolves (5-7-2) in Watertown on Friday night by the score of 4-1 with a returning Zac Sirota scoring the game winner.

The Black Bears opened the scoring first with a short-handed goal from Austin Thompson with just 8:31 left to go in the period making this a 1-0 game.

The Wolves get their first goal of the game 4:21 into the middle period as Steven Klinck received an east to west pass from Boston Bird to score making this a 1-1 game. The Black Bears get the lead back from the returning Zac Sirota who scored his first goal of the season at the 9:21 mark of the 1st period. With Chris Corgan in the box for High-Sticking Gavin Yates, CJ Stubbs scores his 9th goal of the season, his 5th man-up goal making this a 3-1 game with 7:02 left to go in the second period.

The Black Bears get another goal from the 3rd line as Emerson Emery and Nick Swain work from their own end of the ice into the offensive zone with Swain getting his second goal of the season with 7:11 to go in the game. The Black Bears improve to 14-2-0 with 41 points and win their 5th consecutive 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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