AHL Syracuse Crunch

Crunch Home Regular Season Wining and Points Streaks Broken by Binghamton

Published on November 23, 2008 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Syracuse, NY (November 23, 2008) - The Syracuse Crunch saw its 24-game home regular season points streak and 18-game regular season winning streak come to an end tonight, with a 2-1 loss to the Binghamton Senators at the War Memorial at Oncenter in front of 4,462 fans.

Binghamton's Josh Hennessy notched both goals for the Sens, including the game-winner on the power play with just 25 seconds remaining in regulation.

Binghamton struck first with a power play goal at the 13:55 mark the first period when Mattias Karlsson found an open Hennessy on the far side post, who picked the top corner over the left shoulder of Crunch starting goaltender Dan LaCosta.

The Crunch had a power play answer of its own with just eight seconds left in the first period. Craig MacDonald dished a pass across the ice to Nikita Filatov at the point who zipped a one-time pass to Alexandre Picard. Picard redirected the puck into the back of the net past Binghamton starter Brian Elliott to tie the game at 1-1. The tally was Picard's first goal of the season.

Syracuse almost outshot the B-Sens by a two to one margin with a 15-8 shot advantage in the second period. However, stingy goaltending by both netminders kept the score deadlocked in a 1-1 tie as the second period came to a close. Each team went 0-for-2 on power plays during the frame.

The B-Sens put away the game late in the third period when Hennessy scored his second power play goal of the game with under a minute to play. Brian Lee ripped a shot on net which bounced off of the mask of LaCosta and was left for Hennessy to bury into an open net for the game winner.

CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch has taken a lead going into the third period in just three of 20 games this season... Syracuse is 1-6-0-1 when scoring one goal or less and 12-0-0-0 when scoring two goals...The Crunch has scored just two regulation goals in its last four games...Over his last five starts, Dan LaCosta has stopped 180 of 190 shots against him (.947)...With an assist tonight, Nikita Filatov broke a six-game scoring drought.

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