Crunch Struggle against Amerks
February 2, 2013 - American Hockey League (AHL) - Syracuse Crunch News Release
Syracuse, NY- The Syracuse Crunch fell to the Rochester Americans 5-3 tonight at the War Memorial Arena.
The Crunch have struggled against their 1-90 rivals all season as Rochester now leads the season series 5-1-0-0.
With tonight's loss the Crunch drop their overall record to 25-12-2-4 and fall to 9-7-2-2 at the War Memorial. Goaltender Riku Helenius stopped 16 of 21 shots in defeat while his Rochester counterpart David Leggio stopped 43 of 46 shots.
Rochester opened the scoring with 8:12 to play in the opening frame. Helenius made the initial save on a Brayden McNabb shot but the rebound went straight to the stick of Patrick Rissmiller who gave the Amerks a 1-0 lead.
Richard Panik tied the game with his 20th goal of the season. After a scramble in front of Leggio the puck was stalled on the goal line before Panik pushed it over the line with 8:32 to play in the second. JT Wyman and Mike Angelidis picked up assists.
Less than a minute later former Crunch forward Rick Schofield scored his sixth goal of the season with a shot from the left side at the 12:06 mark of the second period. Nick Crawford added a power-play goal at the 14:16 mark to send Rochester into the second intermission with a 3-1 lead.
Rochester scored the first two goals of the final frame to extend their lead to 5-1. Kevin Sundher scored at the 7:34 mark after a give-and-go play with Mark Mancari and Kevin Porter beat Helenius with a wrist shot glove side.
The Crunch added third period goals from Brett Connolly and Danick Gauthier but were unable to overcome the deficit, falling 5-3.
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