GAMEDAY: Game 20 - Lehigh Valley (11-6-2) at Belleville (10-11-1) 7:00 p.m. ET

BELLEVILLE, ONT -- The Lehigh Valley Phantoms continue their Canadian road trip with a Saturday stop in Belleville, Ontario for a battle with the Senators at 7:00 p.m. ET.

Phantoms' Lines (Starters in Bold/Italics)

Greg Carey - Phil Varone - Nicolas Aube-Kubel Carsen Twarynski - Mike Vecchione - Chris Conner Taylor Leier - Mikhail Vorobyev - David Kase Tyrell Goulbourne - Cole Bardreau - Colin McDonald

T.J. Brennan - Mark FriedmanPhilip Samuelsson - Phil Myers Zach Palmquist - Reece Willcox

Alex Lyon - Carter Hart

Scratches: James de Haas, German Rubtsov (injury- out for the season), Radel Fazleev, Connor Bunnaman and Alex Krushelnyski

GAME STORY

FIRST PERIOD

The Phantoms had three of the game's first four shots on goal, but it was the Senators taking the 1-0 lead on their first shot of the hockey game.

Mark Friedman sent a puck around the boards for Colin McDonald at the team bench, who tried to chip a puck to the middle to start a rush up ice. Instead, the puck was turned over and it was Gabriel Gagne firing a quick shot past Alex Lyon to give the Sens the game's first goal 3:11 into the contest.

Tyrell Goulbourne didn't like a hit from behind he took from Jonathan Racine, and dropped the gloves with the Belleville defender in a spirited scrap that ended when Goulbourne switched to his left hand and caught Racine by surprise.

Lehigh Valley had chances to tie the game up late in the period on a five-on-three, but were unsuccessful - including a Greg Carey attempt at what seemingly looked like an empty net. Filip Gustavsson threw his goalie stick out and made a fantastic stop to keep the Phantoms off the board heading into the middle frame.

The game seemed to be played at a much higher pace with a ton more speed than Friday night's game in Laval. The Phantoms had an 11-6 shots edge, but found themselves trailing by a goal heading into the first intermission.

SECOND PERIOD

Belleville scored early in the middle frame in similar fashion as they did in the first, with this one coming 3:29 into period two after ex-Hershey forward Paul Carey tallied his third of the year on a bit of a broken play in front.

The Phantoms took back-to-back penalties in the opening half of the period, but Alex Lyon and the penalty kill was up to the task - continuing to excel over the last five weeks.

Chris Conner scored on a goal-mouth scrum to cut the deficit in half with 7:32 left in the period, and Mike Vecchione evened things up at 2-2 late in the period - getting a backdoor feed from Colin McDonald for the game-tying goal.

THIRD PERIOD

Things seemed to slow down a bit in the third period in terms of pace, but the Phantoms threw plenty at Gustavsson in the final frame with a total of 16 shots in the period. It wasn't until Conner was tripped with 13.5 seconds left in regulation and awarded a penalty shot, that the 2-2 deadlock was broken.

Conner went with his patented five-hole move to give the Phantoms the go-ahead goal, and Taylor Leier added an empty net goal to complete the 4-2 final score.

GAME SUMMARY

1st Period

3:11: BEL - Gagne (2) - Carey 8:26: LV - (PP) Samuelsson, minor (delay of game) 13:21: LV - Goulbourne, major (fighting) 13:21: LV - (PP) Goulbourne, minor (roughing) 13:21: BEL - Racine, major (fighting) 16:13: BEL - (PP) Labate, minor (tripping) 16:47: BEL - (PP) Balisy, minor (interference) 18:47: BEL - (PP) Paul, minor (hooking)

2nd Period

3:29: BEL - Carey (3) - Rodewald, Sieloff 6:42: LV - (PP) Palmquist, minor (high-sticking) 9:13: LV - (PP) Brennan, minor (tripping) 12:28: LV - Conner (8) - Palmquist, Vecchione 13:51: BEL - (PP) Sieloff, minor (kneeing) 15:53: LV - Vecchione (6) - McDonald, Vorobyev 19:38: BEL - (PP) Paul, minor (roughing)

3rd Period

5:14: LV - (PP) Vecchione, minor (high-sticking) 19:47: LV - Conner (9) - PENALTY SHOT 19:56: LV - ENG Leier (3) - unassisted

BOXSCORE

Lehigh Valley  0 - 2 - 2 = 4 Belleville  1 - 1 - 0 = 2

Shots

Lehigh Valley  11 - 10 - 16 = 37 Belleville  6 - 10 - 9 = 25

Goalies

LV: Alex Lyon (23 saves - 25 shots) BEL: Philip Gustavsson (33 saves - 36 shots)

Power Play

LV: 0-for-5 BEL: 0-for-5

Penalty Kill

LV: 5-for-5 BEL: 5-for-5

Attendance: 2,716