With only 11 minutes remaining, the Binghamton Senators managed to overcome a four-goal deficit against the visiting Manchester Monarchs on Saturday night, but it wasn’t enough.

After a thrilling comeback during a nine-minute span in the third period to even the score after being down 5-1, the B-Sens fell to the Monarchs 6-5 in a shootout.

“For our guys to not quit and muster a comeback, that’s real credit for them,” said head coach Don Nachbaur. “A lot of teams would have shut it down; we didn’t.”

Binghamton opened the scoring in the first period after forward Ryan Keller took a pass from Martin St. Pierre, skated around a group of players in front of Manchester’s net, and flipped a backhand shot past goaltender Jeff Zatkoff, who was screened on the play.

However, Manchester would score the next five goals on Binghamton goaltender Mike Brodeur, several of which were owed to missed defensive coverage.

“It was the mental mistakes; leaving areas of the ice and our net uncontended was a concern,” Nachbaur said.

With only nine minutes remaining in the third, Binghamton forward Denis Hamel narrowed the lead to 5-2 after scoring a slap shot goal on Zatkoff during a two-on-one breakout.

Two minutes later, forward Kaspar Daugavins continued the comeback after flipping a puck in the crease over a sprawling Zatkoff into the goal.

“We stuck with it and kept beating on the drum there,” Nachbaur said. “We had to open it up to get back in the game. We weren’t defensive; we were all offensive-minded.”

St. Pierre added the third goal of the comeback with a wrist shot with 4:39 remaining. Following a penalty by Manchester forward Brandon Segal, the B-Sens pulled Brodeur for a two-man advantage on the power play and tied the game with 51 seconds left after a slap shot goal by defenseman Craig Shira.

“I thought we changed a little bit too the way we played in the third; I thought we were too fancy, we cycled pucks to the back of the net … the last nine to 10 minutes we really put a lot of pucks to the front of the net and we got rewarded for it,” Nachbaur said.

However, after Brodeur kept the team into the game with several big saves down the stretch of the third period, he was outmatched by Zatkoff in the shootout, letting in two goals to Zatkoff’s one.

“There was a couple [goals] I would like to have back,” Brodeur said.

Before Saturday night’s game, Brodeur earned the honor of Reebok’s AHL player of the week.

In a span of three starts from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, Brodeur posted a 2-1 record, letting in just two goals, collecting a shutout, and making 94 saves. He continued his excellence last Friday, when he earned a 5-0 shutout victory when the B-Sens visited the Adirondack Phantoms.

Hamel and defenseman Derek Smith, who is currently out with the flu, added two goals apiece in the winning effort.

Binghamton’s weekend matchups were part of a stretch of seven games in 11 days for the team.

“I don’t think people know how tired our hockey club was just coming off that trip,” Nachbaur said. “It was a long trip. We were in Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Norfolk, back up to Glens Falls, N.Y., and back home tonight.”

Although Broduer’s performance didn’t reflect his previous starts, he believes the team grew from their comeback experience.

“We faced a lot of adversity today, going down by five goals and scoring four goals in the last nine minutes was huge for us,” he said. “It was a confidence builder and we just got to keep building on it.”