Marlies Lose to B Sens in Shootout.

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The Toronto Marlies unveiled their 2007-08 North Division title banner prior to the game in front of a rowdy and spirited 5,157 fans last night at Ricoh Coliseum. Despite a strong, physical effort by the Marlies, the Senators defeated Toronto, 2-1 in a shootout.
The Binghamton Senators opened the scoring at the 8:59 mark of the first period. Josh Hennessy snapped a wrist shot past Marlies starting goalie, Justin Pogge on the glove-hand side to put the Sens up 1-0. Senators starting goaltender, Brian Elliott made some key saves in the first to keep Toronto off the board, turning aside all 15 shots faced. The Marlies power play had many chances, but couldn’t capitalize on four attempts.
Jaime Sifers and Cody Bass dropped the gloves late in the second period, which added to the hostility between the two teams. The Marlies went to their sixth power play shortly after and fired three shots on goal but still couldn’t get the puck past Elliott.
In the third period, after killing off a Binghamton power play, Kyle Rogers received a pass as he stepped out of the penalty box and broke in all alone. Rogers was denied by Elliott on the backhand. Under two minutes later, Tim Stapleton finally solved Brian Elliott on Toronto’s 29th shot of the night to tie the game at 1-1. Stapleton fired a wrist shot that beat Elliott blocker-side. Staffan Kronwall started the played with a pass to Stapleton.
With just under five minutes remaining the Senators Hennesy was penalized for tripping. The Marlies failed to capitalize on their seventh power play of the game. In the dying moments of the game, the Marlies broke in on Elliot with a four on two rush but were again denied by the Senators goaltender.
The overtime period passed quickly as the Senators were limited to only two shots. The Marlies mustered just one shot but had a great scoring opportunity from a Stapleton backhand attempt. The shoot-out was reached after a stellar regulation performance by both goaltenders.
The Marlies first shooter, Stapleton, walked in and fired a wrist-shot past Elliot on his glove side. The Senators then replied with Brendan Bell sliding a backhander past Pogge. The Marlies and Senators shooters were then stopped until the fifth and final shooter for the Senators – Denis Hamel faked a slapshot and then stepped around Pogge to pot in the shoot-out winner.