Falcons Host Senators Today
Published on February 8, 2009 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Springfield Falcons News Release
The Springfield Falcons and Binghamton Senators meet for the second and final time this season when they battle on Sunday afternoon at the MassMutual Center. The Falcons and Senators just played each other one week ago when Springfield dropped a 4-2 decision at Binghamton on Saturday, January 31. Theo Peckham and Bryan Lerg scored for the Falcons, while Binghamton's Derek Couture tallied a pair of goals for the Senators earning the game's first star.
Tonight, the Falcons conclude a busy stretch of games at the MassMutual Center as they play the third of three straight home games this weekend. Springfield dropped a 3-2 decision to the Hartford Wolf Pack on Saturday night. Colin McDonald scored his fourth goal of the year and Ryan Potulny added his 21st marker of the campaign providing Springfield's offense.
The Senators were in Rochester on Saturday and lost to the Amerks by a score of 3-2 in overtime. Peter Regin and Josh Hennessy tallied for Binghamton while Tomas Kudelka added a pair of assists. The Senators have a record of 26-16-5-3 good for 60 points and fourth place in the East Division standings.
MORE PLAYER MOVEMENT: The Falcons announced Friday that the Edmonton Oilers recalled defenseman Theo Peckham and assigned center Ryan Potulny to Springfield. As well, left wing Jean-Francois Jacques was activated and assigned to Springfield on a two-week conditioning assignment by the Oilers. Jacques missed the season's first 51 games due to injury. Defenseman Sebastien Bisaillon was also recalled from the Stockton Thunder on Saturday.
Potulny has skated in eight games with the Oilers this season and is +2 with three assists while averaging 10:29 minutes of ice time per game. The 6-foot, 190-pound native of Grand Forks, North Dakota has scored 35 points in 40 games with Springfield, scoring a team-leading 21 goals and adding 14 assists. He leads the Falcons with nine power play goals and nine multiple-point games and has registered 26 penalty minutes.
SENATORS GAME RECAPS: February 7, 2009 - L-3-2 (ot) - The Binghamton Senators battled back from an early two-goal deficit to force overtime before falling by a 3-2 final to the Rochester Americans on Saturday afternoon at the Blue Cross Arena.
Rochester took advantage of several early power-play chances, scoring first off the stick of Karl Stewart just eight minutes into the opening period. Michal Repik gave the Amerks a two-goal edge in the final minutes of the opening period with a one-timer from the left faceoff circle, beating netminder Jeff Glass on the blocker side. The B-Sens struck back early in the second stanza with a power-play tally of their own. Defenseman Tomas Kudelka passed from the deep left corner to Peter Regin in the mid-slot, where Regin one-timed it under the cross bar for his ninth tally of the season.
Josh Hennessy made it a 2-2 hockey game in the third period when he collected the rebound off a Mattias Karlsson shot from the point and snapped it past netminder Tyler Plant for his 14th marker, tying him with Denis Hamel for the team lead. The game went into the extra session where defenseman Jason Garrison snapped a wrist shot high over the glove hand of Glass to give Rochester their first win over Binghamton this season. The B-Sens collect one point to keep pace in the tight East Division race, just one behind third place Bridgeport.
February 6, 2009 - L-3-2 (ot) - The Senators scored two goals in the final four minutes of regulation against Hamilton Friday night to force overtime and earn one point before falling 3-2 to the North Division foe by a 3-2 final on Friday.
The B-Sens buried their lone power-play tally off the stick of Danny Bois to bring the B-Sens within one goal. Ilya Zubov and Mattias Karlsson assisted on the marker. With the goaltender pulled and just four seconds remaining in regulation, Greg Mauldin put home his 10th goal of the year to force overtime and give Binghamton one point.
Bulldogs defenseman Yannick Weber notched his second goal of the night 1:41 into the extra session to secure the victory for Hamilton.
The B-Sens held Hamilton to just 19 shots on the night, including two in the second period. Netminder Martin Gerber made 16 saves in the losing effort.
American Hockey League Stories from February 8, 2009
- Houston Aeros tally four goals in third for 6-3 win over Chicago - Houston Aeros
- Lowell tops Wolf Pack, 5-3 - Connecticut Whale
- Admirals Top Peoria 5-4 - Milwaukee Admirals
- Curry cruises past Admirals, Pens win 5-0 - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
- Rampage top Rochester 2-1 - San Antonio Rampage
- Laliberte's Late Goal Puts Phantoms Past Bridgeport - Adirondack Phantoms
- Falcons Lose To Senators 2-1 - Springfield Falcons
- Bulldogs top Lake Monsters 1-0 - Hamilton Bulldogs
- Denis denies Monsters in 1-0 win - Hamilton Bulldogs
- Sharks get robbed in Providence - Worcester Sharks
- Fraser scores his fourth goal of the season in Sound Tigers' 2-1 loss in Philadelphia - Bridgeport Islanders
- Monarchs Brake For Moose, Lose 3-2 - Manchester Monarchs
- Pirates Pick Up Giant Win Over Bears, 3-2 - Portland Pirates
- Admirals Shut Out By Penguins 5-0 - Norfolk Admirals
- Griffins set franchise record in 10-5 loss at Toronto - Grand Rapids Griffins
- Quick Scoring Sends Devils Over Wolf Pack, 5-3 - Albany Devils
- P-Bruins Defeat Sharks 3-2 - Providence Bruins
- Moose overthrow Monarchs - Manitoba Moose
- Admirals Sign Forward Erik Johnson - Norfolk Admirals
- Griffins Recall Brett Peterson - Grand Rapids Griffins
- Falcons Host Senators Today - Springfield Falcons
- Wild assigns Kurtis Foster on conditioning assignment - Houston Aeros
- Amerks Host Rampage Tonight - Rochester Americans
- Pittsburgh Penguins Re-Assign Defenseman Alex Goligoski - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
- Penguins Recall Ewing From Wheeling - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
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