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Crunch Complete Weekend Sweep of IceCaps

March 9, 2013 - American Hockey League (AHL)
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Syracuse, NY - The Syracuse Crunch completed a weekend sweep of the St. John's IceCaps with a 4-2 victory tonight at the Mile One Centre.

Four different Crunch players scored and netminder Riku Helenius turned away 23 of 25 shots faced for the Crunch to improve to 36-17-3-4 overall and 23-8-0-2 on the road. The Crunch's 79 points are the most in the American Hockey League.

The IceCaps jumped out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to two goals from Aaron Gagnon in the opening frame but the Crunch scored four unanswered goals to beat the IceCaps for the second time in as many nights.

Gagnon's first of the night came five minutes into the frame when he knocked a rebound past Crunch netminder Helenius. He scored his second goal of the game, a power-play goal, on a shot from the left circle with 3:59 to play in the first.

Syracuse matched St. John's first period tallies by scoring two goals during the middle stanza. Defenseman Matt Taormina was the first player to get past IceCaps goaltender Eddie Pasquale 2:23 into the second period. JT Brown found Taormina with space between the circles and Taormina blasted the puck past Pasquale for the power-play tally. JT Wyman tied the game at the 11:44 mark of the second period on a wrist shot after being set up by Richard Panik and Dmitry Korobov.

The Crunch took a 3-2 lead at the 9:15 mark of the third period when Brett Connolly redirected a Radko Gudas point shot past Pasquale. Tyler Johnson extended the Crunch lead with his league-leading 31st goal of the season at the 10:44 mark of the third. Panik passed to an open Johnson who beat Pasquale with a high shot.

Crunchables: With his second period goal Matt Taormina extended his point streak to four games...Taormina has one goal and three assists in that span... The Crunch are 7-3-0-2 when tied after the second period...The Crunch only allowed two shots in the second period, matching a season-low.

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