In their Saturday night game against Binghamton, the Phantoms chose to again and again hit the snooze alarm.

Eventually, they looked at the clock and realized they were late for work.

They seemingly jumped out of bed, pulled on clothes that weren’t too wrinkled and showed up at the office.

In hockey terms, that means that they let the Devils dominate play throughout the game, got a goal on a hunch played by coach Scott Gordon, and then showed up in wrinkled uniforms to tie the game with just 4.5 seconds left on the game clock.

Dodged the boss on that one!

Actually, the boss made a move that helped the team to the eventual 3-2 overtime win. With 6:01 left in regulation and his team down 2-0, the two teams were each down a man and battling four-on-four. Gordon called goalie Alex Lyon off the ice to add an extra attacker and the move paid off when Colin McDonald sailed a puck past Devils’ goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood.

The bold move worked to bring the Phantoms within a goal, but it didn’t work to stir up the troops. The Phantoms remained listless until the snooze alarm rang for the final time and Phil Varone, on one knee near the side of the goal, took a pass from T.J. Brennan and deposited it for the game-tying goal.

With the teams playing three-on-three late in the overtime period, Mike Vecchione and Mark Friedman had a two-on-one rush toward the Binghamton goal and Vecchione nailed the opportunity. The Phantoms got the win and two points in the standings when not long before, there seemed to be no opportunity to gain even one point.

“The way the game was going at that point, we needed something and that opportunity was there for us,” said Gordon of the decision to pull the goalie with plenty of time left on the clock. “It wound up working for us, but even if it hadn’t or even if they would have scored an empty-netter, I still believe it was worth the risk.

“You don’t do that all the time, but in the type of game we were playing, why not?”

Those type of heroics were made somewhat routine by last year’s version of the Phantoms, but this year’s team is different.

Last season there was a fire to the team that hasn’t quite developed out of what are just embers so far this season. There may be an occasional flare-up like the one on Saturday, but in general, the team is still trying to figure things out.

“I think there are just some new faces here, and we’re still working on a few things,” said McDonald. “It’s not that we’re playing poorly and it’s not a lack of effort, it’s just more of a getting to know each other phase that last season we didn’t go through.”

EXIT THE LYON .. Alex Lyon looked ill-prepared when he gave up a goal on a shot from near center ice against Binghamton. The puck wound up going past him for a 2-0 Binghamton lead. As it turned out, Lyon was summoned to join the Flyers on Monday when goalie Michal Neuvirth went on injured reserve. Lyon returned from a lower-body injury that he suffered in preseason and has played well overall as one of the pieces of a rotating goalie carousel with Lehigh Valley. Lyon’s exit makes things a little clearer as Carter Hart figures to get most of the time in goal with Anthony Stolarz serving primarily as a back-up.

WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY ... Center German Rubstov has put himself in good spots early in the season with Lehigh Valley. In his first AHL season, the 2016 first round pick has put three pucks in the net and assisted on five others. In Saturday’s win, he picked up an assist on the winning goal and finished the night plus-two. On the season, he’s a plus-five and two of his goals have been game-winners.

WHERE ARE WE? ... After their longest road trip of the season, the Phantoms played their first home game since Oct. 19. On the trip, they went 3-1-1-1 and are now 6-3-1-1 on the season. Their performance so far has them in third place behind Charlotte, who ousted the Phantoms from the playoffs last season. Springfield sits between the Checkers and the Phantoms.