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Crunch Come From Behind to Exterminate Rats

November 11, 2009 - American Hockey League (AHL)
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Syracuse, NY (November 11, 2009) - The Syracuse Crunch continued their dominance at home against the Albany River Rats tonight, with a third period come-from-behind 4-3 shootout win over their East Division rivals at the War Memorial at Oncenter.

Trevor Frischmon and Dan Fritsche both recorded three points (1g, 2a), Brent Regner tallied the shootout game-winner and Kevin Lalande made 31 saves en route to the win.

Lalande made some critical saves in the early going, but couldn't stop Albany's Jerome Samson from scoring halfway through the first. Samson stole the puck in the Crunch zone, curled in front of the net, and beat Lalande high to the glove-side on the play.

Albany increased its lead to 2-0 when Pat Dwyer came in with speed down the wing and snapped a shot off the post that snuck by Lalande just over eight minutes later on the power play.

The Crunch found their legs in the second period when Fritsche deflected in a quick centering pass from Frischmon at the 11:35 mark. River Rats goalie Justin Peters seemed to lose sight of the puck on the play and did not react to the shot until it was in the net.

Albany responded about five minutes later and regained the two-goal lead. Stefan Chaput was left alone in front of the net and tipped in a shot from the point by Jerome Samson for his third goal of the season.

The ice tilted in favor of Syracuse in the third and the line of Frischmon, Fritsche and Alexandre Picard took over.

Frischmon netted his second goal of the season seven minutes in, when he dug the puck free and poked it into the net. The Crunch kept the pressure on a tied it up with just under eight minutes to go.

Fritsche skated the puck into the zone, pulled up and sent it down low to Picard. Picard then made a quick 180 degree turn, which shook his defender and fooled Peters, allowing him to slide it into the back of the net on the wraparound.

The Crunch earned their only power play of the game with four and a half minutes left in the third, but did not capitalize.

Regulation ended 3-3 and the game went into overtime. Although the game tempo was fast in the extra session, neither team was credited with a shot and the game headed to a shootout, the first tiebreaker for the Crunch at home this season.

Maksim Mayorov and Pascal Pelleteir scored in the first and third rounds, respectively, and Chris Terry and Jamie McBain tallied for Albany in the second and fourth rounds for Albany, knotting the shootout at 2-2 after four rounds.

Rookie defenseman Brent Regner and his lightning quick stickhandling moves beat Peters in the fifth round and Lalande shut the door on Pat Dwyer's attempt to seal the win for Syracuse.

CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch were out-shot for the twelfth time out in 14 games this season...Dan Fritsche has five points (2g, 3a) in his last three games...Fritsche and Trevor Frischmon each tied the Crunch single-game points season-high (1g, 2a)...Tonight's game had the fewest amount of penalty minutes for (8), against (2) and combined (10) for the Crunch this season...Two of the Crunch's five wins have come when trailing after two periods.

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