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Crunch Downed in Chocolate Town

December 28, 2009 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Hershey, PA (December 26, 2009) - Mathieu Perreault tallied two goals to help Hershey down the Syracuse Crunch by a 4-1 score in front of 9,005 fans tonight at Giant Center. The loss was the Crunch's fifth straight.

The Crunch came out in their first game after the Christmas break looking to improve on the season's first 31games and snap the club's season-high four-game losing streak.

Syracuse looked fresh and got off to a good start, taking control early in the first while outshooting the Bears by a 15-7 margin.

Both goaltenders were sharp in the frame, especially Hershey's Braden Holtby who denied a glorious chance by Simon Ferguson with the inside of his goal paddle about halfway through the period.

Hershey came out with a much better effort in the second stanza and recorded the game's first tally when Kyle Wilson deflected in Boyd Gordon's point shot past Dan LaCosta at the 4:20 mark.

Hershey went up by a 2-0 count at the tail end of the period when Perreault corralled a Chris Bourque pass, skated in and roofed a backhand under the crossbar through LaCosta with just over two and a half minutes left in the second.

Francois Bouchard scored to put Hershey up 3-0 when he beat LaCosta on a one-time cross-ice feed seven and a half minutes into the third period.

Perreault's second tally came on the power play to make it a 4-0 Hershey lead with just over four minutes left in regulation.

Trevor Frischmon put the Crunch on the board just a minute later when his backhand caromed off a skate and past Holtby, to spoil the netminder's shutout bid.

Holtby finished win 33 saves on 34 shots in the 4-1 win for first-place Hershey.

CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch lost their season-high fifth straight game tonight...Syracuse has the AHL's worst road record at 2-13-1-1...The Crunch are now 2-6-0-0 in December.

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