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Crunch Playoff Hopes Dashed in Rochester

April 10, 2009 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Rochester, NY (April 10, 2009) - With a 2-0 loss to Rochester and a 4-3 overtime win by Toronto over the Manitoba Moose, the Syracuse Crunch were officially eliminated from Calder Cup playoff contention tonight, in front of 6,968 fans at Blue Cross Arena.

Although playing the last place team in the division, arch-rival Rochester came in winners of back-to-back games and wanted to close out its home regular season with a bang.

The Crunch knew they were in for a battle no matter what the standings said as both teams came out hard in the opening 20 minutes.

The first period saw no scoring as the Crunch out-shot Rochester by 9-4 count.

The second period was much of the same and a close checking game up until the 14:37 mark.

Rochester worked the puck down low where Janis Sprukts came away with it. Sprukts centered a feed to Drew Larman, who skated in a few strides and ripped a wrister from the hash marks over the right shoulder of Kevin Lalande for the 1-0 Rochester lead.

The Crunch had a late third period power play and pulled Lalande for the extra attacker in the final minutes, but could not put the puck past David Shantz.

Randall Gelech put the nail in the Crunch's season with his empty-net goal with 25 seconds remaining in regulation.

The Crunch wrap up their season against these same Rochester Americans tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial at Oncenter.

CRUNCHABLES: Derek MacKenzie had his seven game points streak and six game assist streak snapped tonight...Maksim Mayorov had his three-game goal-scoring streak snapped tonight...The Crunch were shut out for the eighth time this season.

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