AHL Syracuse Crunch

Crunch Dogged in Hamilton

Published on November 14, 2009 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Hamilton, ON (November 14, 2009) - Five unanswered goals, with two each coming from Mike Glumac and Ryan Russell, and 30 saves from Cedrick Desjardins propelled Hamilton to a 5-1 win over the Crunch tonight in front of 3,659 fans at Copps Coliseum.

In their only trip to Canada's Steel City this year, the Crunch got on the board first when Hamilton's David Desharnais was whistled off for hooking at the 5:32 mark.

Just 10 seconds into the power play, Alexandre Picard bulldozed his way to the front of the net off the face-off, found the puck and quickly picked the upper left hand corner to put Syracuse up by a 1-0 count.

Hamilton answered just one minute later with a power play goal of their own when Glumac scored the first of his two tallies by streaking down the right side and beating Dan LaCosta with a wrister to knot the game at 1-1.

Glumac tallied his second goal just eight minutes later when he took a pass from Desharnais and blasted a shot from center-point that fluttered over the goal line after LaCosta got a piece of it to make it 2-1 Hamilton.

The Bulldogs made it a 3-1 game 58 seconds into the second stanza when Desharnais got himself on the board by cashing in on a centering pass from Brock Trotter.

Hamilton extended its lead to 4-1 four and a half minutes into the third period when Ryan Russell's re-direction bid hit the crossbar, but he found his own rebound and swept it through LaCosta.

Russell notched his second of the game and fourth of the season less than two minutes later to extend Hamilton's lead to 5-1.

Syracuse was only able to muster five third period shots as Hamilton skated away with the victory.

CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch scored the first goal tonight for the first time since a 2-0 win vs. Norfolk back on October 30...Picard has two goals in his last three games and leads the team in that category (7)...The Crunch have been outshot in 14 of 16 games this season...The Crunch have been held to one goal or less six times already this season and are 0-5-0-1 in those contests.

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