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Crunch Roll Over Rampage, 4-1

March 5, 2011 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


San Antonio, TX - Ray Emery turned in a sparkling 40-save performance after being assigned by Anaheim earlier in the day and the Syracuse Crunch got goals from four different players en route to a 4-1 win over the San Antonio Rampage tonight at the AT&T Center. The victory snapped the Crunch's overall four-game winless streak and five-game road winless skid.

Nick Bonino picked up two assists and Josh Green also picked up a helper to extend his point streak to eight games (4g, 7a). The Crunch finish up their three-game road trip to the Lone Star State with a 12 p.m. matinee match-up on Monday, March 7 in Austin vs. Texas before returning home to face the Stars on Friday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.

The Crunch got off to a quick start and scored the first goal for the fifth time in their last seven contests just after a Hamilton power play expired.

After getting out of the box after serving a two-minute minor for hooking, John Mitchell corralled the puck, raced into the offensive zone past Maxim Goncharov and ripped a shot to the top corner past Matt Climie to put the Crunch up 1-0 at the 3:48 mark of the first.

That quick start, however, was answered quickly when Nolan Yonkman's harmless-looking wrister from the point found its way past a screened Emery to tie the game at 1-1 just 16 seconds later. The goal proved to be Emery's only blemish on the evening.

The score stayed that way until the 12:27 mark of the second, when Brian McGrattan got his stick on a Bonino point shot and re-directed the disk past Climie to put the Crunch back up 2-1. The goal was McGrattan's first as a member of the Crunch.

Syracuse took a two-goal lead just 1:18 later when John Kurtz lumbered in down the left wing and slipped a sharp-angle shot behind Climie to push the Crunch to a 3-1 advantage, which is how the second stanza would end. The Crunch scored twice and kept San Antonio off the board in the second period despite being outshot by an 18-9 margin.

Emery made some key saves down the stretch and Macenauer finished off the game with an empty-netter at the 19:15 mark.


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