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Senators Snap Bears' Lengthy Streak

February 20, 2015 - American Hockey League (AHL)
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The Binghamton Senators scored three times in the second period and added a fourth unanswered goal in the third, wiping out an early deficit to take a 5-3 decision over the Hershey Bears on Friday night at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena and snap the Bears' 13-game point streak.

Casey Wellman began a first period completely owned by the Bears. Heading down the slot, Wellman deflected a pass from Philippe Cornet through the legs of Senators goaltender Scott Greenham at 3:16 for his 17th goal of the season.

Just 1:22 later, Tomas Kundratek joined a line rush led by Tim Kennedy and trailed in the slot. Kennedy backhanded a pass right onto Kundratek's tape for a one-timer over Greenham's glove and a 2-0 lead.

Both Dustin Gazley and Stan Galiev rang shots off of the posts in the opening period.

The Bears held that lead into the early part of the second frame, a period in which the Senators took control of the game. Cole Schneider capitalized on a turnover at the 2:50 mark, walking into the slot and backhanding a shot over a stretched-out Philipp Grubauer.

Carter Camper then tied the game when he got himself open inside the left circle and one-timed a feed from Schneider into the net at 13:24.

On what would turn out to be Binghamton's only power play of the night, Derek Grant parked himself at the top of Grubauer's crease to tip a shot from Alex Grant into the net at 15:17, giving Binghamton their first lead of the game.

Another defensive zone turnover down low in the third period gave the Senators their insurance goal. Alex Guptill capitalized on it, taking a feed from Ryan Dzingel and ripping a wrist shot past Grubauer at 10:48.

The Bears made things interesting when Cornet deflected a shot from Wellman over Greenham's arm at 16:25, pulling the visitors within a goal.

But Colin Greening ended the comeback attempt, launching a wrist shot under the leg of Kundratek and into the empty net at 19:34.

Grubauer saw his eight-game win streak snapped, as he made 28 saves but fell to 19-10-4. Greenham improved to 10-6-2 with the win, stopping 26 of 29 shots.

The loss was just the second in regulation for the Bears (30-14-5-3) in calendar year 2015, and snapped the club's six-game road winning streak.

The Bears come home to host the Bridgeport Sound Tigers tomorrow, February 21 at 7:00 PM. The first 5,000 fans will receive a baseball cap courtesy of Capital BlueCross. Individual tickets for this and all remaining home games are available at the GIANT Center box office, online at TicketMaster.com or by calling 717-508-BEAR.

NOTES: The Bears scratched D Erik Burgdoerfer, LW Dane Byers, D Michal Cajkovsky, D Nate Schmidt, C Chandler Stephenson and D Patrick Wey... The Senators scratched LW David Dziurzynski, D Daniel New and D Michael Sdao ...The Bears finished the night 0-for-2 on the power play and 0-for-1 on the penalty kill... Three stars: 3-Wellman, 2-Prince, 1-Camper...The Bears scored their league-leading 34th first goal, and are now 23-8-3-0 when scoring first... RW Chris Conner extended his point streak to seven games (4-5-9) with his first-period assist.

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