2011 Calder Cup playoffs

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2011 Calder Cup playoffs
Tournament details
DatesApril 13–June 7, 2011
Teams16
Final positions
Champions Binghamton Senators
Runner-up Houston Aeros
  2010
2012  

The 2011 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 13, 2011. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for division semifinals, finals and conference finals. Then the Eastern Conference Champion Binghamton Senators defeated the Western Conference Champion Houston Aeros four games to two to win the Calder Cup, the first one in Binghamton franchise history.

Contents

Playoff seeds

After the 2010–11 AHL regular season, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The top eight teams from each conference qualified for the playoffs.

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

  1. Portland Pirates – 103 points
  2. Manchester Monarchs – 98 points
  3. Connecticut Whale – 88 points

East Division

  1. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins – 117 points
  2. Hershey Bears – 100 points
  3. Charlotte Checkers – 97 points
  4. Norfolk Admirals – 93 points
  5. Binghamton Senators – 92 points

Western Conference

North Division

  1. Hamilton Bulldogs – 97 points
  2. Lake Erie Monsters – 96 points
  3. Manitoba Moose – 93 points

West Division

  1. Milwaukee Admirals – 102 points
  2. Houston Aeros – 98 points
  3. Peoria Rivermen – 92 points (36 Regulation/Overtime Wins)
  4. Texas Stars – 92 points (35 Regulation/Overtime Wins)
  5. Oklahoma City Barons – 91 points

Bracket

Division semifinals Division finals Conference finals Calder Cup final
            
A1 Portland 4
A3 Connecticut 2
A1 Portland 2
Atlantic Division
E5 Binghamton 4
A2 Manchester 3
E5 Binghamton 4
E5 Binghamton 4
Eastern Conference
E3 Charlotte 0
E1 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4
E4 Norfolk 2
E1 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2
East Division
E3 Charlotte 4
E2 Hershey 2
E3 Charlotte 4
E5 Binghamton 4
W2 Houston 2
N1 Hamilton 4
W5 Oklahoma City 2
N1 Hamilton 4
North Division
N3 Manitoba 3
N2 Lake Erie 3
N3 Manitoba 4
N1 Hamilton 3
Western Conference
W2 Houston 4
W1 Milwaukee 4
W4 Texas 2
W1 Milwaukee 3
West Division
W2 Houston 4
W2 Houston 4
W3 Peoria 0

In each round the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations. [1]

Division semifinals

Note 1: All times are in Eastern Time (UTC-4).
Note 2: Game times in italics signify games to be played only if necessary.
Note 3: Home team is listed first.

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

(A1) Portland Pirates vs. (A3) Connecticut Whale
April 14Portland Pirates3 2Connecticut Whale Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
Luke Adam 1 - pp - 13:47
Corey Tropp 1 - 14:45
Colin Stuart 1 - pp - 16:40
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period5:13 - Blake Parlett 1
No scoringThird period13:03 - Dale Weise 1
David Leggio 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris 20 saves / 23 shots
April 16Portland Pirates3 2OTConnecticut Whale Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
Matt Ellis 1 - 5:02First period15:26 - Francis Lemieux 1
16:42 - pp - John Mitchell 1
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Derek Whitmore 1 - 12:20Third periodNo scoring
Derek Whitmore 2 - 12:04First overtime periodNo scoring
David Leggio 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris 33 saves / 36 shots
April 17Connecticut Whale3 1Portland Pirates XL Center Recap  
Tommy Grant 1 - 3:03First period19:07 - Mark Voakes 1
Derek Couture 1 - 16:23Second periodNo scoring
John Mitchell 2 - pp - 9:22Third periodNo scoring
Dov Grumet-Morris 29 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats David Leggio 19 saves / 22 shots
April 19Connecticut Whale3 1Portland Pirates XL Center Recap  
Chad Kolarik 1 - pp - 16:32First periodNo scoring
John Mitchell 3 - 4:45Second periodNo scoring
Mats Zuccarello 1 - 4:48Third period12:23 - Mark Voakes 2
Dov Grumet-Morris 19 saves / 20 shotsGoalie stats David Leggio 27 saves / 30 shots
April 21Portland Pirates5 4Connecticut Whale Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
Mark Mancari 1 - pp - 11:28
Travis Turnbull 1 - 17:47
First periodNo scoring
Luke Adam 2 - 0:45
Dennis McCauley 1 - 9:03
Second period4:28 - pp - Kris Newbury 1
9:24 - Kris Newbury 2
12:03 - pp - Chad Kolarik 2
Mark Parrish 1 - pp - 2:44Third period1:36 - Brodie Dupont 1
David Leggio 34 saves / 38 shotsGoalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris 13 saves / 16 shots
Cameron Talbot 22 saves / 24 shots
April 23Connecticut Whale4 6Portland Pirates XL Center Recap  
Jeremy Williams 1 - pp - 3:45
Dale Weise 2 - pp - 18:42
First periodNo scoring
Carl Hagelin 1 - 10:47Second period2:00 - pp - Paul Byron 1
4:05 - Mark Parrish 2
9:25 - Mark Mancari 2
17:08 - Alex Biega 1
Chad Kolarik 3 - pp - 19:43Third period10:56 - Paul Byron 2
14:14 - Corey Tropp 2
Dov Grumet-Morris 24 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats David Leggio 30 saves / 34 shots
Portland won series 4–2
(A2) Manchester Monarchs vs. (E5) Binghamton Senators
April 14Manchester Monarchs2 1Binghamton Senators Verizon Wireless Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Corey Elkins 1 - 2:19Second periodNo scoring
David Kolomatis 1 - pp - 16:25Third period19:21 - Ryan Potulny 1
Jeff Zatkoff 34 saves / 35 shotsGoalie stats Barry Brust 27 saves / 29 shots
April 15Manchester Monarchs3 4OTBinghamton Senators Verizon Wireless Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Tyler Toffoli 1 - pp - 2:16
Justin Azevedo 1 - 9:09
Second periodNo scoring
Jake Muzzin 1 - 18:58Third period1:07 - Ryan Potulny 2
5:22 - Ryan Keller 1
8:59 - pp - Kaspars Daugavins 1
No scoringFirst overtime period4:03 - Derek Grant 1
Jeff Zatkoff 25 saves / 29 shotsGoalie stats Barry Brust 26 saves / 29 shots
April 17Binghamton Senators4 5OTManchester Monarchs Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Andre Benoit 1 - 3:28
Roman Wick 1 - pp - 12:36
Colin Greening 1 - 18:24
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period10:50 - Bud Holloway 1
17:16 - Bud Holloway 2
Bobby Butler 1 - pp - 7:44Third period9:15 - pp - Jake Muzzin 2
11:50 - Dwight King 1
No scoringFirst overtime period1:43 - Bud Holloway 3
Barry Brust 27 saves / 32 shotsGoalie stats Jeff Zatkoff 15 saves / 18 shots
Martin Jones 14 saves / 15 shots
April 19Binghamton Senators3 6Manchester Monarchs Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period10:01 - pp - Vyacheslav Voynov 1
Ryan Potulny 3 - 2:56
Ryan Potulny 4 - 3:57
Second period1:50 - David Kolomatis 2
Ryan Potulny 5 - 9:34Third period7:05 - Brayden Schenn 1
13:56 - sh - Justin Azevedo 2
15:36 - David Meckler 1
17:26 - pp - Corey Elkins 2
Barry Brust 20 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Martin Jones 35 saves / 38 shots
April 20Binghamton Senators5 4OTManchester Monarchs Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Cody Bass 1 - 5:52First period16:14 - pp - Vyacheslav Voynov 2
18:24 - Ray Kaunisto 1
Bobby Butler 2 - 5:32Second period17:00 - Ray Kaunisto 2
Ryan Potulny 6 - pp - 3:08
Ryan Potulny 7 - pp - 15:26
Third period5:03 - David Meckler 2
Kaspars Daugavins 2 - pp - 6:38First overtime periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 30 saves / 34 shotsGoalie stats Jeff Zatkoff 37 saves / 42 shots
April 22Manchester Monarchs1 22OTBinghamton Senators Verizon Wireless Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Justin Azevedo 3 - 9:02Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period10:26 - Bobby Butler 3
No scoringSecond overtime period10:01 - Geoff Kinrade 1
Martin Jones 43 saves / 45 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 51 saves / 52 shots
April 23Manchester Monarchs5 6OTBinghamton Senators Verizon Wireless Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period13:57 - Ryan Keller 2
16:41 - Ryan Keller 3
Bud Holloway 4 - pp - 5:11
Jake Muzzin 3 - 11:53
Brandon Kozun 1 - 17:43
John Zeiler 1 - 18:16
Second period0:56 - sh - Erik Condra 1
6:05 - Bobby Butler 4
Dwight King 2 - pp - 10:19Third period18:15 - Erik Condra 2
No scoringFirst overtime period3:07 - Ryan Potulny 8
Martin Jones 13 saves / 16 shots
Jeff Zatkoff 20 saves / 23 shots
Goalie stats Robin Lehner 32 saves / 37 shots
Binghamton won series 4–3

East Division

(E1) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins vs. (E4) Norfolk Admirals
April 15Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins1 2Norfolk Admirals Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period5:23 - Mattias Ritola 1
18:27 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot 1
Keven Veilleux 1 - 17:13Third periodNo scoring
Brad Thiessen 20 saves / 22 shotsGoalie stats Dustin Tokarski 32 saves / 33 shots
April 16Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins0 2Norfolk Admirals Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period19:52 - Paul Szczechura 1
No scoringThird period19:56 - en - Marc-Antoine Pouliot 2
Brad Thiessen 25 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Dustin Tokarski 27 saves / 27 shots
April 19Norfolk Admirals1 2Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Norfolk Scope Recap  
No scoringFirst period17:58 - Keven Veilleux 2
Stefano Giliati 1 - pp - 15:40Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period10:20 - pp - Bryan Lerg 1
Dustin Tokarski 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 28 saves / 29 shots
April 20Norfolk Admirals2 4Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Norfolk Scope Recap  
Johan Harju 1 - 16:04First period4:48 - Corey Potter 1
Marc-Antoine Pouliot 3 - 13:25Second period2:38 - Brian Strait 1
18:17 - pp - Ryan Craig 1
No scoringThird period15:38 - Joe Vitale 1
Dustin Tokarski 29 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 34 saves / 36 shots
April 22Norfolk Admirals1 2Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Norfolk Scope Recap  
No scoringFirst period8:06 - pp - Nick Petersen 1
19:13 - pp - Nick Petersen 2
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Mark Barberio 1 - pp - 9:45Third periodNo scoring
Dustin Tokarski 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 23 saves / 24 shots
April 23Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins6 3Norfolk Admirals Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
Steve Wagner 1 - pp - 2:13
Steve Wagner 2 - pp - 3:58
Steve Wagner 3 - 18:36
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period14:18 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot 4
16:03 - pp - Blair Jones 1
Joe Vitale 2 - 7:23
Tim Wallace 1 - en - 18:57
Zach Sill 1 - en - 19:21
Third period10:35 - pp - James Wright 1
Brad Thiessen 28 saves / 31 shotsGoalie stats Dustin Tokarski 23 saves / 27 shots
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton won series 4–2
(E2) Hershey Bears vs. (E3) Charlotte Checkers
April 14Hershey Bears4 5Charlotte Checkers Giant Center Recap  
Steve Pinizzotto 1 - 1:10
Keith Aucoin 1 - pp - 16:34
First period3:58 - Zac Dalpe 1
6:07 - Chris Terry 1
Boyd Kane 1 - 13:11Second period8:15 - sh - Brett Bellemore 1
Brian Willsie 1 - 1:42Third period8:40 - Zach Boychuk 1
10:38 - Drayson Bowman 1
Braden Holtby 23 saves / 28 shotsGoalie stats Justin Pogge 27 saves / 31 shots
April 17Hershey Bears4 2Charlotte Checkers Giant Center Recap  
Patrick McNeill 1 - 12:02First periodNo scoring
Andrew Kozek 1 - 4:25
Brian Willsie 2 - 7:08
Sheldon Souray 1 - sh - 17:05
Second period5:00 - Zac Dalpe 2
11:09 - pp - Zac Dalpe 3
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Braden Holtby 22 saves / 24 shotsGoalie stats Justin Pogge 16 saves / 20 shots
April 19Charlotte Checkers2 3Hershey Bears Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period8:44 - Francois Bouchard 1
14:50 - Keith Aucoin 2
18:48 - Kyle Greentree 1
Nick Dodge 1 - 5:20Second periodNo scoring
Zach Boychuk 2 - 2:21Third periodNo scoring
Mike Murphy 20 saves / 23 shotsGoalie stats Braden Holtby 28 saves / 30 shots
April 20Charlotte Checkers3 2Hershey Bears Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Nicolas Blanchard 1 - pp - 3:03Second period11:10 - Mathieu Perreault 1
Oskar Osala 1 - pp - 6:29
Nick Dodge 2 - 17:21
Third period18:00 - Mathieu Perreault 2
Mike Murphy 35 saves / 37 shotsGoalie stats Braden Holtby 21 saves / 24 shots
April 22Charlotte Checkers5 3Hershey Bears Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period3:06 - Steve Pinizzotto 2
Brett Sutter 1 - 17:14Second period1:49 - Mathieu Perreault 3
12:57 - Andrew Carroll 1
Zach Boychuk 3 - pp - 1:00
Oskar Osala 2 - 5:48
Nick Dodge 3 - 11:24
Drayson Bowman 2 - en - 19:00
Third periodNo scoring
Mike Murphy 32 saves / 35 shotsGoalie stats Braden Holtby 29 saves / 33 shots
April 24Hershey Bears1 2OTCharlotte Checkers Giant Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period0:35 - Brett Sutter 2
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Brian Fahey 1 - 14:18Third periodNo scoring
No scoringFirst overtime period1:30 - Nicolas Blanchard 2
Braden Holtby 28 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 26 saves / 27 shots
Charlotte won series 4–2

Western Conference

North Division

(N1) Hamilton Bulldogs vs. (W5) Oklahoma City Barons
April 14Hamilton Bulldogs5 2Oklahoma City Barons Copps Coliseum Recap  
Nigel Dawes 1 - pp - 1:38
Olivier Fortier 1 - 9:43
Ryan Russell 1 - 16:41
First periodNo scoring
Aaron Palushaj 1 - pp - 13:39Second period7:23 - Ben Ondrus 1
Joe Stejskal 1 - pp - 1:29Third period7:00 - Bryan Helmer 1
Drew MacIntyre 24 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers 3 saves / 6 shots
Martin Gerber 21 saves / 23 shots
April 16Hamilton Bulldogs2 1Oklahoma City Barons Copps Coliseum Recap  
Andreas Engqvist 1 - 19:57First period17:18 - Brad Moran 1
Nigel Dawes 2 - pp - 1:03Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 38 saves / 39 shotsGoalie stats Martin Gerber 21 saves / 23 shots
April 19Oklahoma City Barons2 0Hamilton Bulldogs Cox Convention Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Colin McDonald 1 - 8:38
Alexandre Giroux 1 - 15:59
Third periodNo scoring
Martin Gerber 26 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 44 saves / 46 shots
April 20Oklahoma City Barons5 2Hamilton Bulldogs Cox Convention Center Recap  
Hunter Tremblay 1 - 3:06First period10:29 - Ian Schultz 1
Zack Stortini 1 - 5:40
Mark Arcobello 1 - pp - 19:34
Second period13:50 - Paul Zanette 1
Linus Omark 1 - 11:26
Chris VandeVelde 1 - en - 19:20
Third periodNo scoring
Martin Gerber 29 saves / 31 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 23 saves / 27 shots
April 22Oklahoma City Barons0 2Hamilton Bulldogs Cox Convention Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period7:31 - pp - Aaron Palushaj 2
No scoringSecond period18:33 - Nigel Dawes 3
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Martin Gerber 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 20 saves / 20 shots
April 24Hamilton Bulldogs4 1Oklahoma City Barons Copps Coliseum Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Nigel Dawes 4 - 6:43
Frederic St. Denis 1 - pp - 17:04
Nigel Dawes 5 - en - 19:15
J. T. Wyman 1 - en - 19:48
Third period5:41 - Alexandre Giroux 2
Drew MacIntyre 24 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Martin Gerber 15 saves / 17 shots
Hamilton won series 4–2
(N2) Lake Erie Monsters vs. (N3) Manitoba Moose
April 16Lake Erie Monsters6 4Manitoba Moose Quicken Loans Arena Recap  
Matthew Ford 1 - 3:27First period6:47 - Marco Rosa 1
13:46 - Sergei Shirokov 1
Justin Mercier 1 - sh - 1:41
Ben Walter 1 - pp - 9:20
Ryan Stoa 1 - 17:33
Second periodNo scoring
Matthew Ford 2 - 13:18
Mark Olver 1 - en - 19:42
Third period0:20 - Marco Rosa 2
16:56 - sh - Kevin Connauton 1
Jason Bacashihua 21 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 19 saves / 24 shots
Tyler Weiman 2 saves / 2 shots
April 17Lake Erie Monsters2 3OTManitoba Moose Quicken Loans Arena Recap  
David Van der Gulik 1 - pp - 19:34First period10:38 - Aaron Volpatti 1
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Julien Brouillette 1 - 11:28Third period19:10 - Marco Rosa 3
No scoringFirst overtime period8:03 - Rick Rypien 1
John Grahame 40 saves / 43 shotsGoalie stats Tyler Weiman 34 saves / 36 shots
April 19Manitoba Moose1 2Lake Erie Monsters MTS Centre Recap  
Sergei Shirokov 2 - 1:09First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period0:38 - David Van der Gulik 2
3:03 - Ben Walter 2
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Tyler Weiman 17 saves / 19 shotsGoalie stats John Grahame 39 saves / 40 shots
April 21Manitoba Moose3 6Lake Erie Monsters MTS Centre Recap  
No scoringFirst period13:12 - pp - Ben Walter 3
16:29 - pp - Luke Walker 1
Kevin Clark 1 - 3:08
Jason Jaffray 1 - 17:45
Second period7:56 - pp - Justin Mercier 2
9:00 - sh - Justin Mercier 3
Kevin Clark 2 - 13:56Third period19:27 - en - Matthew Ford 3
19:50 - en - Mark Olver 2
Tyler Weiman 16 saves / 20 shots
Eddie Lack 8 saves / 8 shots
Goalie stats John Grahame 36 saves / 39 shots
April 22Manitoba Moose2 0Lake Erie Monsters MTS Centre Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Sergei Shirokov 3 - 6:35
Jason Jaffray 2 - en - 19:50
Third periodNo scoring
Eddie Lack 26 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Jason Bacashihua 29 saves / 30 shots
April 24Lake Erie Monsters1 3Manitoba Moose Quicken Loans Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Julian Talbot 1 - pp - 2:10Second period3:43 - Bill Sweatt 1
No scoringThird period7:36 - pp - Keith Seabrook 1
17:02 - Sergei Shirokov 4
John Grahame 14 saves / 17 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 28 saves / 29 shots
April 26Lake Erie Monsters1 4Manitoba Moose Quicken Loans Arena Recap  
Jonas Holos 1 - 19:02First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period16:21 - Sergei Shirokov 5
No scoringThird period10:00 - Alexandre Bolduc 1
10:55 - pp - Keith Seabrook 2
18:09 - en - Marco Rosa 4
John Grahame 17 saves / 20 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 32 saves / 33 shots
Manitoba won series 4–3

West Division

(W1) Milwaukee Admirals vs. (W4) Texas Stars
April 14Milwaukee Admirals5 2Texas Stars Bradley Center Recap  
Gabriel Bourque 1 - 14:22
Chris Mueller 1 - pp - 17:15
First period9:48 - pp - Aaron Gagnon 1
Ryan Thang 1 - 7:36
Gabriel Bourque 2 - 18:41
Second periodNo scoring
Chris Mueller 2 - 9:26Third period6:59 - Mathieu Tousignant 1
Jeremy Smith 22 saves / 24 shotsGoalie stats Richard Bachman 13 saves / 17 shots
Tyler Beskorowany 7 saves / 8 shots
April 16Milwaukee Admirals1 3Texas Stars Bradley Center Recap  
Teemu Laakso 1 - pp - 11:17First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period12:52 - pp - Philip Larsen 1
15:34 - Aaron Gagnon 2
No scoringThird period4:03 - pp - Travis Morin 1
Jeremy Smith 26 saves / 29 shotsGoalie stats Richard Bachman 29 saves / 30 shots
April 19Texas Stars3 2OTMilwaukee Admirals Cedar Park Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period3:36 - Chris Mueller 3
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Philip Larsen 2 - pp - 15:51
Brad Lukowich 1 - 19:39
Third period0:34 - Gabriel Bourque 3
Travis Morin 2 - 8:44First overtime periodNo scoring
Richard Bachman 21 saves / 23 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 37 saves / 40 shots
April 20Texas Stars2 3Milwaukee Admirals Cedar Park Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period14:03 - pp - Gabriel Bourque 4
Scott Glennie 1 - 6:25Second period12:37 - pp - Taylor Beck 1
Greg Rallo 1 - pp - 8:45Third period3:13 - Mark Van Guilder 1
Richard Bachman 20 saves / 23 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 30 saves / 32 shots
April 22Texas Stars1 2OTMilwaukee Admirals Cedar Park Center Recap  
Raymond Sawada 1 - pp - 10:20First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period19:55 - Gabriel Bourque 5
No scoringFirst overtime period16:29 - Ryan Thang 2
Richard Bachman 36 saves / 38 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 40 saves / 41 shots
April 25Milwaukee Admirals3 22OTTexas Stars Bradley Center Recap  
Mike Bartlett 1 - 4:20First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period4:41 - pp - Colton Sceviour 1
Andreas Thuresson 1 - 1:22Third period7:14 - Travis Morin 3
Mark Van Guilder 2 - 10:42Second overtime periodNo scoring
Jeremy Smith 52 saves / 54 shotsGoalie stats Richard Bachman 47 saves / 50 shots
Milwaukee won series 4–2
(W2) Houston Aeros vs. (W3) Peoria Rivermen
April 13Houston Aeros4 1Peoria Rivermen Toyota Center Recap  
Warren Peters 1 - 7:46
Robbie Earl 1 - pp - 16:39
First period1:16 - Adam Cracknell 1
Jed Ortmeyer 1 - 16:38Second periodNo scoring
Patrick O'Sullivan 1 - 0:22Third periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett 17 saves / 18 shotsGoalie stats Jake Allen 27 saves / 31 shots
April 15Houston Aeros3 2OTPeoria Rivermen Toyota Center Recap  
Jarod Palmer 1 - 10:24First period10:10 - Anthony Peluso 1
Chad Rau 1 - pp - 8:44Second period7:12 - pp - Adam Cracknell 2
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Carson McMillan 1 - 11:34First overtime periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett32 saves / 34 shotsGoalie stats Jake Allen 43 saves / 46 shots
April 18Peoria Rivermen3 5Houston Aeros Carver Arena Recap  
Akim Aliu 1 - 0:19
T. J. Hensick 1 - 9:49
First periodNo scoring
T. J. Hensick 2 - pp - 3:41Second period0:48 - pp - Casey Wellman 1
9:43 - Jon DiSalvatore 1
No scoringThird period1:12 - Chad Rau 2
11:53 - Colton Gillies 1
15:31 - Colton Gillies 2
Jake Allen 25 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 12 saves / 15 shots
April 19Peoria Rivermen1 2Houston Aeros Carver Arena Recap  
Nathan Oystrick 1 - pp - 8:03First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period8:22 - Drew Bagnall 1
11:04 - Patrick O'Sullivan 2
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Ben Bishop 17 saves / 19 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 23 saves / 24 shots
Houston won series 4–0

Division finals

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

(A1) Portland Pirates vs. (E5) Binghamton Senators
April 27Portland Pirates2 3Binghamton Senators Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
Maxime Legault 1 - 4:27First periodNo scoring
Colin Stuart 2 - 17:14Second period6:28 - Ryan Keller 4
7:39 - pp - Bobby Butler 5
No scoringThird period7:35 - Zack Smith 1
David Leggio 40 saves / 43 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 33 saves / 35 shots
April 28Portland Pirates3 5Binghamton Senators Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
Derek Whitmore 3 - 13:08First periodNo scoring
Mark Mancari 3 - 1:27Second period8:28 - sh - Kaspars Daugavins 3
11:16 - Zack Smith 2
16:22 - pp - Bobby Butler 6
Mark Mancari 4 - 10:40Third period16:09 - Bob Raymond 1
19:56 - en - Kaspars Daugavins 4
Jhonas Enroth 21 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 43 saves / 46 shots
April 30Binghamton Senators2 3Portland Pirates Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period5:29 - Brian O'Hanley 1
Ryan Keller 5 - 5:16
Kaspars Daugavins 5 - pp - 14:56
Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period14:51 - Derek Whitmore 4
19:47 - Tim Conboy 1
Robin Lehner 30 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats David Leggio 32 saves / 34 shots
May 2Binghamton Senators6 1Portland Pirates Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Mike Hoffman 1 - pp - 2:54
Kaspars Daugavins 6 - 8:27
Ryan Keller 6 - pp - 16:18
First period8:17 - Luke Adam 3
Kaspars Daugavins 7 - 1:26
Ryan Potulny 9 - 12:23
Second periodNo scoring
Ryan Potulny 10 - pp - 19:12Third periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 22 saves / 23 shotsGoalie stats David Leggio 16 saves / 20 shots
Jhonas Enroth 17 saves / 19 shots
May 3Binghamton Senators2 6Portland Pirates Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period4:59 - pp - Colin Stuart 3
6:09 - pp - Luke Adam 4
11:40 - sh - Mark Mancari 5
14:29 - Mark Parrish 3
Jim O'Brien 1 - 5:52
Bobby Butler 7 - 15:30
Second period2:37 - Mark Voakes 3
12:33 - Mark Mancari 6
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 10 saves / 14 shots
Barry Brust 25 saves / 27 shots
Goalie stats Jhonas Enroth 35 saves / 37 shots
May 6Portland Pirates0 3Binghamton Senators Cumberland County Civic Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period0:25 - Jim O'Brien 2
No scoringSecond period13:04 - pp - Zack Smith 3
No scoringThird period18:39 - en - Kaspars Daugavins 8
Jhonas Enroth 31 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 36 saves / 36 shots
Binghamton won series 42

East Division

(E1) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins vs. (E3) Charlotte Checkers
April 28Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins2 3Charlotte Checkers Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
No scoringFirst period15:10 - Zac Dalpe 4
Geoff Walker 1 - pp - 4:29Second period7:18 - pp - Jon Matsumoto 1
Brett Sterling 1 - pp - 6:26Third period5:03 - pp - Jon Matsumoto 2
Brad Thiessen 16 saves / 19 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 28 saves / 30 shots
April 30Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins3 0Charlotte Checkers Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Brett Sterling 2 - 15:17Second periodNo scoring
Chris Collins 1 - 2:22
Ryan Craig 2 - en - 19:17
Third periodNo scoring
Brad Thiessen 34 saves / 34 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 28 saves / 30 shots
May 2Charlotte Checkers2 1OTWilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period13:23 - Chris Collins 2
Nick Dodge 4 - 9:45Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Brett Sutter 3 - 5:40First overtime periodNo scoring
Mike Murphy 26 saves / 27 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 21 saves / 23 shots
May 4Charlotte Checkers1 0Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Chris Terry 2 - pp - 2:01Third periodNo scoring
Mike Murphy 44 saves / 44 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 31 saves / 32 shots
May 6Charlotte Checkers0 1Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period8:54 - Chris Collins 3
Mike Murphy 32 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Brad Thiessen 23 saves / 23 shots
May 7Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins3 4Charlotte Checkers Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Ryan Craig 3 - 7:13
Corey Potter 2 - pp - 9:45
Second periodNo scoring
Joe Vitale 3 - sh - 1:13Third period7:24 - Chris Terry 3
10:40 - Brett Sutter 4
11:10 - Chris Terry 4
16:42 - Zac Dalpe 5
Brad Thiessen 29 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 32 saves / 35 shots
Charlotte won series 42

Western Conference

North Division

(N1) Hamilton Bulldogs vs. (N3) Manitoba Moose
April 28Hamilton Bulldogs4 1Manitoba Moose Copps Coliseum Recap  
Ryan Russell 2 - 9:27First period5:10 - Alexandre Bolduc 2
Aaron Palushaj 3 - pp - 13:34
Nigel Dawes 6 - pp - 16:16
J. T. Wyman 2 - sh - 18:59
Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 19 saves / 20 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 33 saves / 37 shots
May 1Hamilton Bulldogs4 2Manitoba Moose Copps Coliseum Recap  
Mathieu Carle 1 - pp - 9:08First period2:47 - Kevin Clark 3
Ryan Russell 3 - 14:44Second periodNo scoring
Gabriel Dumont 1 - 4:22
Gabriel Dumont 2 - en - 19:11
Third period19:30 - Chris Tanev 1
Drew MacIntyre 24 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 27 saves / 30 shots
May 3Manitoba Moose5 4Hamilton Bulldogs MTS Centre Recap  
Alexandre Bolduc 3 - 14:42First period16:08 - Ian Schultz 2
Jordan Schroeder 1 - 19:25
Sergei Shirokov 6 - pp - 19:59
Second period4:40 - Aaron Palushaj 4
Marco Rosa 5 - pp - 4:40
Jason Jaffray 3 - 17:43
Third period5:18 - Gabriel Dumont 3
19:28 - pp - Ryan White 1
Eddie Lack 23 saves / 27 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 23 saves / 28 shots
May 4Manitoba Moose2 12OTHamilton Bulldogs MTS Centre Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period6:50 - pp - Gabriel Dumont 4
Guillaume Desbiens 1 - 17:58Third periodNo scoring
Mario Bliznak 1 - 11:54Second overtime periodNo scoring
Eddie Lack 43 saves / 44 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 32 saves / 34 shots
May 6Manitoba Moose1 5Hamilton Bulldogs MTS Centre Recap  
No scoringFirst period1:09 - pp - Nigel Dawes 7
Marco Rosa 6 - pp - 15:04Second period4:58 - Jimmy Bonneau 1
No scoringThird period12:26 - Ryan Russell 4
16:13 - Ryan White 2
17:50 - en - Nigel Dawes 8
Eddie Lack 25 saves / 29 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 22 saves / 23 shots
May 8Hamilton Bulldogs0 1Manitoba Moose Copps Coliseum Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period3:40 - sh - Alexandre Bolduc 4
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 33 saves / 34 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 25 saves / 25 shots
May 9Hamilton Bulldogs2 13OTManitoba Moose Copps Coliseum Recap  
No scoringFirst period10:09 - pp - Sergei Shirokov 7
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Nigel Dawes 9 - 6:24Third periodNo scoring
Dustin Boyd 1 - 0:06Third overtime periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 29 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats Eddie Lack 55 saves / 57 shots
Hamilton won series 43

West Division

(W1) Milwaukee Admirals vs. (W2) Houston Aeros
April 29Milwaukee Admirals3 1Houston Aeros Bradley Center Recap  
Steve Begin 1 - 9:49
Taylor Beck 2 - 10:30
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Ryan Thang 3 - 0:32Third period6:53 - Colton Gillies 3
Jeremy Smith 25 saves / 26 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 18 saves / 21 shots
May 1Milwaukee Admirals0 2Houston Aeros Bradley Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period11:47 - pp - Warren Peters 2
No scoringThird period3:56 - Colton Gillies 4
Jeremy Smith 22 saves / 24 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 21 saves / 21 shots
May 3Houston Aeros3 5Milwaukee Admirals Toyota Center Recap  
Jared Spurgeon 1 - pp - 8:15First period17:55 - Mark Van Guilder 3
No scoringSecond period8:55 - Ryan Thang 4
13:58 - Andreas Thuresson 2
Marco Scandella 1 - pp - 8:16
Jarod Palmer 2 - 10:08
Third period9:35 - Steve Begin 2
10:35 - Mike Bartlett 2
Matt Hackett 20 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 31 saves / 34 shots
May 5Houston Aeros3 2OTMilwaukee Admirals Toyota Center Recap  
Colton Gillies 5 - 1:58
Patrick O'Sullivan 3 - pp - 9:53
First period14:28 - Andreas Thuresson 3
No scoringSecond period13:12 - pp - Aaron Johnson 1
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Carson McMillan 2 - 3:35First overtime periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett 11 saves / 13 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 30 saves / 33 shots
May 6Houston Aeros3 2OTMilwaukee Admirals Toyota Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period11:28 - Ryan Thang 5
19:55 - sh - Steve Begin 3
Robbie Earl 2 - pp - 15:38
Chad Rau 3 - 18:39
Third periodNo scoring
Robbie Earl 3 - 8:45First overtime periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett 23 saves / 25 shotsGoalie stats Jeremy Smith 50 saves / 53 shots
May 8Milwaukee Admirals5 4OTHouston Aeros Bradley Center Recap  
Ryan Ellis 1 - pp - 4:46
Gabriel Bourque 6 - 18:29
First periodNo scoring
Roman Josi 1 - pp - 3:24Second period9:42 - Jarod Palmer 3
10:29 - Maxim Noreau 1
13:36 - pp - Jon DiSalvatore 2
Chris Mueller 4 - 15:16Third period9:32 - Patrick O'Sullivan 4
Kelsey Wilson 1 - 1:01First overtime periodNo scoring
Jeremy Smith 29 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 18 saves / 23 shots
May 10Milwaukee Admirals2 4Houston Aeros Bradley Center Recap  
Gabriel Bourque 7 - 8:02First period19:47 - Colton Gillies 6
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Matt Halischuk 1 - pp - 8:26Third period3:18 - Carson McMillan 3
18:39 - Casey Wellman 2
18:56 - en - Warren Peters 3
Jeremy Smith 36 saves / 39 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 30 saves / 32 shots
Houston won series 43

Conference finals

Eastern Conference

(E3) Charlotte Checkers vs. (E5) Binghamton Senators

May 12Charlotte Checkers4 7Binghamton Senators Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
Brad Herauf 1 - 2:06
Zac Dalpe 6 - 11:12
Riley Nash 1 - pp - 17:54
First period1:37 - Corey Locke 1
2:42 - Kaspars Daugavins 9
9:04 - sh - Andre Benoit 2
13:33 - pp - Bobby Butler 8
No scoringSecond period11:31 - Roman Wick 2
Oskar Osala 3 - pp - 6:25Third period10:03 - Erik Condra 3
10:28 - Ryan Potulny 11
Mike Murphy 10 saves / 15 shots
Justin Pogge 5 saves / 7 shots
Goalie stats Robin Lehner 9 saves / 12 shots
Barry Brust 27 saves / 28 shots
May 13Charlotte Checkers0 3Binghamton Senators Time Warner Cable Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period19:16 - Ryan Potulny 12
No scoringSecond period0:29 - pp - Ryan Potulny 13
No scoringThird period13:01 - Bobby Butler 9
Mike Murphy 28 saves / 31 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 35 saves / 35 shots
May 17Binghamton Senators7 1Charlotte Checkers Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Erik Condra 4 - 8:33First periodNo scoring
Zack Smith 4 - 3:41
Zack Smith 5 - sh - 6:09
Second period11:21 - Jon Matsumoto 3
Ryan Keller 7 - pp - 0:55
Bobby Butler 10 - 11:23
Zack Smith 6 - 12:43
Roman Wick 3 - 19:06
Third periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 37 saves / 38 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 24 saves / 29 shots
Justin Pogge 1 saves / 3 shots
May 18Binghamton Senators4 3OTCharlotte Checkers Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Ryan Potulny 14 - pp - 12:34
Kaspars Daugavins 10 - sh - 19:39
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period17:20 - Chris Terry 5
18:39 - Casey Borer 1
Andre Benoit 3 - pp - 4:44Third period18:36 - Chris Terry 6
Ryan Keller 8 - 13:05First overtime periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 42 saves / 45 shotsGoalie stats Mike Murphy 33 saves / 37 shots
Binghamton won series 4–0

Western Conference

(W2) Houston Aeros vs. (N1) Hamilton Bulldogs

May 13Houston Aeros2 1Hamilton Bulldogs Toyota Center Recap  
Chad Rau 4 - pp - 14:52First periodNo scoring
Jed Ortmeyer 2 - 2:59Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period19:09 - Mathieu Carle 2
Matt Hackett 38 saves / 39 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 26 saves / 28 shots
May 15Houston Aeros3 2Hamilton Bulldogs Toyota Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Robbie Earl 4 - pp - 3:16
Marco Scandella 2 - pp - 19:50
Second period14:03 - Gabriel Dumont 5
Colton Gillies 7 - 5:10Third period12:06 - Ryan Russell 5
Matt Hackett 27 saves / 29 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 24 saves / 27 shots
May 17Hamilton Bulldogs2 3Houston Aeros Copps Coliseum Recap  
Nigel Dawes 10 - pp - 18:11
Andreas Engqvist 2 - 19:38
First period3:39 - Jon DiSalvatore 3
15:40 - Maxim Noreau 2
No scoringSecond period5:18 - pp - Jon DiSalvatore 4
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 24 saves / 27 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 25 saves / 27 shots
May 18Hamilton Bulldogs8 1Houston Aeros Copps Coliseum Recap  
Ryan Russell 6 - sh - 1:03
Aaron Palushaj 5 - 15:09
Gabriel Dumont 6 - 19:34
First period2:25 - pp - Casey Wellman 3
J. T. Wyman 3 - 13:05
Dustin Boyd 2 - 13:36
Nigel Dawes 11 - 14:53
Second periodNo scoring
Dustin Boyd 3 - 11:48
Nigel Dawes 12 - pp - 18:59
Third periodNo scoring
Drew MacIntyre 14 saves / 15 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 17 saves / 22 shots
Josh Tordjman 15 saves / 18 shots
May 20Hamilton Bulldogs4 2Houston Aeros Copps Coliseum Recap  
Paul Zanette 2 - 8:18
Aaron Palushaj 6 - pp - 10:17
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period5:04 - Jean-Michel Daoust 1
Ryan Russell 7 - sh - 8:22
Andrew Conboy 1 - en - 18:50
Third period10:02 - Jed Ortmeyer 3
Drew MacIntyre 31 saves / 33 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 26 saves / 29 shots
May 22Houston Aeros4 52OTHamilton Bulldogs Toyota Center Recap  
Chad Rau 5 - pp - 3:34First period8:58 - Andreas Engqvist 3
Robbie Earl 5 - 4:29Second period16:07 - pp - Dustin Boyd 4
18:37 - Nigel Dawes 13
Nate Prosser 1 - 11:02
Jed Ortmeyer 4 - 18:04
Third period0:27 - sh - Andreas Engqvist 4
No scoringSecond overtime period9:11 - Nigel Dawes 14
Matt Hackett 33 saves / 38 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 57 saves / 61 shots
May 24Houston Aeros4 3Hamilton Bulldogs Toyota Center Recap  
Chad Rau 6 - 7:03
Casey Wellman 4 - 7:12
First period9:13 - Dustin Boyd 5
13:21 - pp - Mathieu Carle 3
Casey Wellman 5 - 2:42Second period9:57 - pp - Aaron Palushaj 7
Jon DiSalvatore 5 - 18:47Third periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett 24 saves / 27 shotsGoalie stats Drew MacIntyre 30 saves / 34 shots
Houston won series 4–3

Calder Cup finals

Binghamton Senators vs. Houston Aeros

May 27Houston Aeros3 1Binghamton Senators Toyota Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period16:17 - Bobby Butler 11
Jed Ortmeyer 5 - 1:47
Jed Ortmeyer 6 - 6:09
Warren Peters 4 - en - 19:24
Third periodNo scoring
Matt Hackett 23 saves / 24 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 38 saves / 40 shots
May 28Houston Aeros1 2OTBinghamton Senators Toyota Center Recap  
Casey Wellman 6 - pp - 4:27First period1:45 - pp - Bobby Butler 12
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
No scoringFirst overtime period7:54 - Jim O'Brien 3
Matt Hackett 19 saves / 21 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 28 saves / 29 shots
June 1Binghamton Senators1 2Houston Aeros Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
No scoringFirst period1:08 - Jon DiSalvatore 6
No scoringSecond period12:51 - Nate Prosser 2
Ryan Keller 9 - pp - 2:52Third periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 28 saves / 30 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 28 saves / 29 shots
June 3Binghamton Senators3 0Houston Aeros Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Cody Bass 2 - 11:48
Corey Locke 2 - pp - 17:10
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
Derek Smith 1 - 2:19Third periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 21 saves / 21 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 34 saves / 37 shots
June 4Binghamton Senators4 2Houston Aeros Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Recap  
Corey Locke 3 - 9:19
Erik Condra 5 - 12:17
First period11:08 - Jean-Michel Daoust 2
19:53 - Jean-Michel Daoust 3
Zack Smith 7 - pp - 19:51Second periodNo scoring
Zack Smith 8 - 15:56Third periodNo scoring
Robin Lehner 41 saves / 43 shotsGoalie stats Matt Hackett 23 saves / 27 shots
June 7Houston Aeros2 3Binghamton Senators Toyota Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Jon DiSalvatore 7 - pp - 6:37
Jean-Michel Daoust 4 - pp - 11:20
Second period2:28 - Roman Wick 4
No scoringThird period3:26 - pp - Bobby Butler 13
9:09 - pp - Ryan Keller 10
Matt Hackett 24 saves / 27 shotsGoalie stats Robin Lehner 34 saves / 36 shots
Binghamton won series 4–2

Playoff statistical leaders

Leading skaters

These are the top ten skaters based on points. If there is a tie in points, goals take precedence over assists. [2]

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalty minutes

PlayerTeamGPGAPts+/–PIM
Ryan Potulny Binghamton Senators 23141226+612
Ryan Keller Binghamton Senators 23101525+68
Nigel Dawes Hamilton Bulldogs 2014822+48
Kaspars Daugavins Binghamton Senators 23101020+88
Zack Smith Binghamton Senators 2381220–536
Aaron Palushaj Hamilton Bulldogs 1971219+214
Patrick O'Sullivan Houston Aeros 2441418–516
Andre Benoit Binghamton Senators 2331518+614
Bobby Butler Binghamton Senators 2313417–16
Marco Rosa Manitoba Moose 1461117+14

Leading goaltenders

This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage. The table is initially sorted by goals against average, with the criterion for inclusion in bold. [3]

GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)

PlayerTeamGPWLSAGAGAASV%SOTOI
Brad Thiessen Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 1266332201.67.9402720
Martin Gerber Oklahoma City Barons 623145101.79.9311335
Drew MacIntyre Hamilton Bulldogs 20119603421.95.93011289
Eddie Lack Manitoba Moose 1265369251.99.9322752
Robin Lehner Binghamton Senators 19144639392.10.93931112
Jeremy Smith Milwaukee Admirals 1376462322.28.9310843

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