AHL Syracuse Crunch

Crunch Fall to Penguins, 5-3

Published on April 3, 2011 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Syracusea, NY (April 3, 2011) - Nick Petersen picked up five helpers, Keven Veilleux scored twice and the visiting team scored three power play goals, as the Syracuse Crunch fell to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins this afternoon by a 5-3 score at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.

Nick Bonino matched a personal season-high with two goals and Nicolas Deschamps notched his first goal in 20 games for the Crunch in the losing effort. The loss marked the end of a season-high five game home win streak.

After a back and forth first half of the first period, the Crunch got on the board first on a strange goal. Thinking a penalty was being called on the Crunch, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton goaltender Brad Thiessen started to make his way to the bench for an extra attacker.

The delayed penalty was actually coming to the Penguins, and Bonino, seeing Thiessen coming out of his net, fired a long wrister from deep in his own zone into the vacated cage to put the Crunch up 1-0 at the 10:53 mark of the first.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton tied the game at 1-1 just over five minutes into the second stanza when Petersen found Keven Veilleux alone in front and Veilleux beat Timo Pielmeier to the short side.

The Penguins took a 2-1 lead just under four minutes later when Paul Thompson notched his first professional goal off another feed from Petersen.

The Crunch knotted the game up once again when Bonino took a pass behind the net from Patrick Maroon, circled around to the front of the cage and let go a point blank shot that deflected off the shoulder of Thiessen and over the goal line to make it a 2-2 game a minute and a half into the third.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton added two power play goals within a four minute span when Corey Potter ripped a slapper from the point past Pielmeier on a 5-on-3 at the 6:33 mark and Geoff Walker added his 11th of the season on a 5-on-4 at the 10:31 mark to make it 4-2.

Deschamps pulled the Crunch to within one at 4-3 when he re-directed a centering pass on the left side from Josh Green off a 2-on-1 with 3:23 left in regulation, but Veilleux cashed in on rebound in front of the net two minutes later, his second of the contest, to make it 5-3.

Thiessen stopped 23 of 26 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, while Pielmeier stopped 25 of 30 shots for the Crunch and took the loss, his first after winning his previous five starts

CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch have dropped back-to-back games after winning five in a row.Patrick Maroon has 17 points (5g, 12a) over his last 10 games.The Crunch have taken 16 minor penalties over the last two games.

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