AHL Syracuse Crunch

Crunch Rally Past Monsters, 6-3

February 2, 2019 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


SYRACUSE, N.Y. - After giving up the first two goals, the Syracuse Crunch rallied back with five unanswered goals in a 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Monsters tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Cameron Gaunce paced the team with his first career multi-goal game as 10 Crunch players found the scoresheet. The victory puts the Crunch on a six-game winning streak and advances the team to 27-13-2-1. The team also takes the four-game season series against the Monsters, 2-0-1-1.

Connor Ingram earned the win with 30 saves between the pipes for the Crunch. Jean-Francois Berube stopped 24-of-29 in net for the Monsters. Syracuse went 2-for-4 on the power play and a perfect 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.

The Monsters opened scoring and built a two-goal lead before the Crunch responded. Six minutes into the game, Miles Koules found a loose puck and fired from the right circle. Sam Vigneault and Maxime Fortier earned the secondary assists. At the 15:50 mark, Vitaly Abramov got the puck from Ryan MacInnis behind the net and circled around to beat Ingram from the slot.

Syracuse stole one back less than a minute later while on the man-advantage. Cory Conacher sent a feed for Gaunce to fire home from the top of the right circle. Jan Rutta recorded the secondary helper.

The Crunch took control of the game with three unanswered goals in the second period. Taylor Raddysh knotted the score when he cleaned up the rebound of Gabriel Dumont's left wing shot 3:52 into the frame. Nolan Valleau tallied a point on the equalizer. At 5:11, Gaunce recorded his second of the game unassisted from the left point during 4-on-4 play.

Halfway through the middle stanza, the Crunch scored their second power-play goal of the game when Foote went bar down off a feed from Carter Verhaeghe. Dennis Yan recorded the helper.

Syracuse tallied their fifth unanswered goal 6:54 into the final frame to go up, 5-2. Foote threw a perfect cross-zone pass from the right wing for Verhaeghe to grab at the far post, stickhandle across the slot and backhand into an open net. Ben Thomas tallied a point on the play.

Cleveland came back within two at the 9:57 mark when Koules netted his second of the night from the bottom of the right circle.

With 2:35 remaining, Dumont hit the empty-net with the help of Raddysh and Verhaeghe to solidify a Crunch win.

The Crunch travel to face the Rochester Americans on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7:05 p.m.

Single game tickets and packages for the 2018-19 season are on sale now and can be purchased in person at the Crunch office located inside the War Memorial Arena at 800 S. State St. in Syracuse, by calling the office at 315-473-4444 or online through Ticketmaster. For the latest Crunch news, visit www.syracusecrunch.com or follow the club on Facebook (www.facebook.com/syracusecrunch), Twitter (@SyracuseCrunch) and Instagram (@syracusecrunch) using #SyrCrunch.

Crunchables: Carter Verhaeghe has 10 points in his last 3 games (5g,5a)...The Crunch have the longest active winning streak in the league with 6 games. The seven-game streak from Nov. 2 to Dec. 7 is the second longest in the league...Cameron Gaunce is tied for second among defensemen with 36 points (9g, 27a).

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