This time last year, Shayne Gostisbehere was just starting to get acclimated in his first season of professional hockey. Little did he know that he was just a few days away from having his season ended after suffering a torn ACL that required surgery to fix. While the Flyers hoped he would be able to return to the ice late in the season, that never materialized, cutting Gostisbehere's season short at just five games with the Phantoms and two with Philadelphia.

This season, the guy his teammates call "Ghost," is back on the ice and is basically going through his first season as a professional all over again. He went through six games with the Phantoms without scoring a goal, giving him a total of 13 professional games and no goals, which started some friendly ribbing from his Lehigh Valley teammates. He brought all of that to an end against St. John's last Friday night when he picked up his first professional goal on a power play at the 17:25 mark of the second period of a 5-1 Phantoms win."It felt like it's been a while now and some of the guys were getting on me, so it definitely feels good to get that one off of my back," laughed Ghost after the win. "I shoot the puck a lot and the guys know that, so I just stuck with it and kept trying to put pucks on net and good things happen."The power play was the result of a hard check that Gostisbehere took, making the goal extra sweet. It also served as a wake-up call for the Phantoms' power play, which had been getting plenty of opportunities, but hadn't been able to do much finishing on power plays in recent games."It's good confidence for the power play. We were not seeing a lot of pucks go in the last couple of games, so it was definitely nice to see and it was really a group goal, we had a good entry, so we've just got to keep building on that," said Gostisbehere.The 22-year old defenseman had to endure his first stretch of three games in three days late last month and found that he has a lot of work to do to learn how to make it through such a stretch. Phantoms coach Scott Gordon believes it's just one of many things that Ghost is going to have to discover this season."You've got to remember, he's a first-year pro and only played five games last year," noted Gordon. "We talked about how he feels and he told me that he feels good and that his game was coming around. He felt awful on Sunday, but it was his first three-in-three. That's the way that they are, so it's not like he's the exception to the rule. In a game like tonight when he's got fresh legs, he can show what he can do."Fitting in perfectly: 23-year old forward Kevin Sundher was signed to a professional try-out contract on Sunday and made an immediate impact with the Phantoms. That night, against rival Hershey, Sundher got the game-winning goal in the tenth round of a shootout, giving Lehigh Valley a 5-4 win. Sundher has played 129 games in the AHL, all coming from his time with Rochester.M*A*S*H: Add forwards Nick Cousins and Evan Rankin to the list of the injured Phantoms. The duo missed Sunday's game in Hershey, necessitating the addition of Sundher. Gordon had to go with a makeshift lineup against the Bears. The situation was made worse when forward Chris Conner was called up to Philadelphia.