After dropping a tough 3-2 overtime decision to the Hershey Bears on Friday night, the Springfield Thunderbirds lost back-to-back games to the Lehigh Valley and Bridgeport Sound Tigers to fall to 5-4-1 on the season.
Phantoms 6, Thunderbirds 4
Lehigh Valley got third period goals from Greg Carey, Taylor Leier, Colin McDonald and Chris Connor (ENG) to erase a two-goal deficit en route to a 6-4 win on home ice. Springfield’s Logan Shaw opened the scoring at 17:47 of the first period with the lone assist going to Michael Downing. Jakub Kindl scored his first of the season, shorthanded, from Juho Lammikko, 4:26 into the second to put the T-Birds up by two.