Crunch Down Norfolk in Overtime, 4-3
Published on December 8, 2010 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release
Norfolk, VA (December 8, 2010) - David Laliberte scored his first two goals as a member of the Crunch, J.P. Levasseur made a season-high 44 saves and Josh Green scored his second overtime-winning goal of the season to lift the Syracuse Crunch to a 4-3 win over the Norfolk Admirals tonight at the Scope.
The Crunch finished their four-game road trip with a 2-2-0-0 record and return to The Oncenter War Memorial Arena on Friday, December 10 to take on Adirondack at 7:30 p.m.
The Crunch came out flying to start the game after enduring a humbling 10-3 loss to the Charlotte Checkers just two nights ago. Syracuse took control of the game early with a power play goal from Dan Sexton at the 5:47 mark after Norfolk took back-to-back penalties within the game's first four and a half minutes.
Nathan Paetsch ripped a shot from the point and Sexton found the rebound, burying a backhand over a sprawling Cedrick Desjardins to give the Crunch a 1-0 lead.
Laliberte followed that up just over a minute later with his first goal as a member of the Crunch when he took a feed from Nicolas Deschamps in the slot and fired a bid that beat Desjardins to make it 2-0 before the game was even seven minutes old.
The Crunch kept their foot on the gas pedal and went up 3-0 with 1:09 left in the first on Laliberte's second score of the night. Laliberte took a pass from Maxime Macenauer, skated in down the left side and let go a wrister that beat Desjardins low along the ice. Syracuse outshot Norfolk by a 12-11 margin in the first frame.
Syracuse kept its three-goal lead through the game's first 40 minutes, despite being outshot by Norfolk 20-7 in the second period.
Norfolk finally got on the board just 1:14 into the third period when Marc-Antoine Pouliot stuffed in a loose puck from the side of the net past Levasseur to make it 3-1.
The Admirals struck again when Matt Fornataro had an easy tap-in goal after a pass from Ty Wishart to cut the Crunch's lead to 3-2 at the 7:34 mark.
Norfolk completed its comeback and tied the game at 3-3 just 23 seconds later when Pouliot's shot trickled over the goal line, prompting Crunch head coach Mark Holick to call a timeout.
Both teams traded chances the rest of the period, but neither could tally the go-ahead goal, forcing the game to overtime.
In overtime, Green corralled a loose puck at center ice, broke in all alone on Desjardins and slipped a backhand by the Norfolk netminder with 2:10 left to seal the Crunch's 4-3 win.
CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch's last overtime win came on October 23 at Hartford.With his two goals, Laliberte became the 17th player to record a multiple-point game for the Crunch this season.Prior to tonight's game, the Anaheim Ducks assigned left wing Matt Beleskey to the Crunch.The Crunch have been outshot in 21 of 25 games this season and have given up 40 or more shots seven times.
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