Crunch Stunned by Adirondack, 4-2
Published on February 16, 2011 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release
Glens Falls, NY (February 16, 2011) - The Syracuse Crunch held a one-goal lead with just over five minutes to play, but gave up three unanswered tallies in a 5:04 span late in the third period, including an empty-netter with 13 seconds left to send the club to a 4-2 loss tonight at the Glens Falls Civic Center, its third straight and sixth in seven meetings this season against Adirondack.
Eric Wellwood opened the game's scoring when his sharp-angle shot slipped by J.P. Levasseur at the 18:37 mark of the first to put Adirondack up 1-0.
The Crunch answered back with a late-period goal of their own in the second frame when Nick Bonino sent a great cross-ice feed from the left wing boards over to Patrick Maroon, and Maroon snapped a bid by Johan Backlund to make it 1-1 with just 52 seconds left in the second.
The score stayed that way until the 5:57 mark of the third, when Matt Beleskey capitalized on a bad line change on the power play by Adirondack and broke down the right side.
Beleskey charged to the net and whipped a backhand pass over to Nicolas Deschamps, who pounded the puck into the open side past Backlund to give the Crunch a 2-1 lead.
The Crunch looked to have everything under control until an unlucky bounce led to Adirondack knotting the game at 2-2 at the 14:43 mark of the third.
The Crunch had control of the puck and tried to send it around the boards behind their own net, but the disk hit off a referee's skate, which allowed Adirondack to keep the puck in the offensive zone after they recovered it.
The disk was eventually dished out to Logan Stephenson at the point, who let go a wrister that found its way through a screen past Levasseur.
That started the avalanche, as former Crunch center Rob Bordson slammed home a centering feed from Denis Hamel that trickled over the goal line just over two minutes later to give Adirondack a 3-2 lead.
Ben Holmstrom added an empty-netter to seal the game at the 19:46 mark.
The Crunch will look for some home cooking, as they begin a five-game home stand with a pair of contests this weekend against San Antonio on Friday, February 18 and Rochester on Saturday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.
CRUNCHABLES: The Crunch now have seven shorthanded goals this season, tying them for seventh in the AHL in that category.With their second period goal, the Crunch broke a 159-minute, 8-second goal draught.Syracuse has two goals in its last three games.J.P. Levasseur made his sixth straight start tonight in goal.Ray Emery served as Levasseur's back-up tonight and could make his Crunch debut on Friday at home vs. San Antonio.The Crunch play 16 of their final 27 games at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.
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