AHL Syracuse Crunch

Crunch Demolish Devils, 6-2

Published on March 25, 2011 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Syracuse, NY - The Syracuse Crunch scored the first four goals of the game and never looked back, potting two tallies in each period and cruising to a 6-2 win over the visiting Albany Devils tonight in front of 5,879 fans at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.

Nick Bonino recorded a personal season high three points (1g, 2a), while four other Crunch players recorded multiple-point games and J.P. Levasseur stopped 36 of 38 shots to secure the Crunch's season-high third straight win at home.

Syracuse is right back to action tomorrow night when it takes on rival Rochester at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena at 7:30 p.m.

Bonino catapulted the Crunch to a 1-0 lead after taking a feed from Patrick Maroon, cutting to the slot and ripping a wrister to the top left corner past Mike McKenna at the 13:10 mark of the first.

The Crunch made it 2-0 with just over two minutes to go in the first period on the power play after Albany's Brad Mills was called for hooking at the 16:03 mark. John Mitchell used his 6-foot-5 inch frame to gather the puck behind net then tip-toed along the goal line and fed a perfect pass in front to Maxime Macenauer, who pin-pointed a one-timer to the top left corner.

Bonino returned the favor to Maroon on the man-advantage just over seven minutes into the second stanza by finding the St. Louis, Missouri native wide open for an easy tap-in past McKenna to extend the Crunch lead to 3-0.

John Kurtz made it 4-0 five and a half minutes later when he stuffed a Macenauer centering feed through McKenna for his third tally of the season, all of which have come in his last 10 games.

Brad Mills put Albany on the board when he slipped a shot past Levasseur on a delayed penalty at the 17:04 mark of the second.

Mitchell tallied his ninth of the season on a nice give-and-go with Jake Newton nine minutes into the third to make it 5-1, chasing the Albany starter in favor of back-up Jeff Frazee.

Kyle Palmieri added his team-leading 21st of the season just under three minutes later on beautiful highlight-reel goal. Palmieri took a head man pass from Bonino, slipped the puck through the legs of the Albany defender, then deked to his backhand and slid a shot through the five-hole of Frazee to put the Crunch up 6-1.

Rob Davison ripped a point shot past Levasseur with just under five minutes to go in regulation, but the Victoriaville, Quebec native slammed the door the rest of the way to pick up his 12th win of the season.

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