Phantoms Post-Game EXTRA! Game 11: Binghamton - 2 at Lehigh Valley - 3 (OT)

ALLENTOWN, PA - Saturday night's game between the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and Binghamton Devils will go down as one of those that played out with the absolute strangest and least likely of outcomes.

The Devils dominated the Phantoms in all three zones for a majority of the contest, but the two teams played a scoreless tie into the third period.

After taking a 1-0 lead, the Devils made it 2-0 on a strange center ice slap shot from John Ramage that seemingly caught Alex Lyon off guard.

Down 2-0 with over six and a half minutes left - during a 4-on-4 situation - Phantoms head coach Scott Gordon opted to pull Lyon for the extra attacker in a last ditch effort to get something going offensively.

It worked out well for the Phantoms, as captain Colin McDonald tipped home a puck past Mackenzie Blackwood with 6:01 left in regulation.

Still, even in a one-goal game the Phantoms couldn't seem to string it all together in what was a frustrating night for the team's offensive players.

That was until, of course, the final seconds were ticking off the PPL Center scoreboard.

Phil Myers was able to keep a puck in the offensive zone at the center point, extending the final offensive push and getting it to T.J. Brennan for a hard shot-pass to the back door for Phil Varone who, from one knee at the near side of the crease, was able to stuff one across the goal line and send the home crowd into a frenzy with 4.5 seconds left in regulation.

Seemingly dead in the water, the Phantoms' improbable comeback forced overtime and earned the team a point in the Atlantic Division Standings.

Hockey is a strange game sometimes.

It got stranger in overtime.

Lyon bailed out the team in front of him - three skaters at that point with just over three minutes left in OT - nearly getting caught moving post-to-post the wrong way but was able to move back to his right and stop Kevin Rooney from the circle on a Devils' tic-tac-toe passing play.

Later in OT, off a face-off win in the defensive zone, Mike Vecchione zoomed up the right wing with the puck 2-on-1 with Mark Friedman and shot one past Blackwood to complete the comeback and steal two points in a game that the Phantoms had no business being in to begin with.

It was reminiscent to some of the uncanny comebacks that last season's squad put together.