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Crunch Upended in Overtime by Hershey, 4-3

October 29, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Syracuse, NY (October 29, 2010) - Despite a season-high 40 shots on goal, the Syracuse Crunch fell by a 4-3 count to the Hershey Bears in overtime tonight at the War Memorial at Oncenter. Kyle Palmieri scored a goal in his third straight game while Luca Sbisa (1g, 1a), Nick Bonino (0g, 2a) and Trevor Smith (0g, 2a) all contributed two points each in the effort.

The Crunch jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 15:47 mark when Smith made a quick back-door feed to Nicolas Deschamps, who buried it from in close for his fourth goal of the season.

Syracuse went up 2-0 eight minutes into the second period when Sbisa notched a 5-on-3 goal on a perfect set-up from Bonino with Hershey's Dany Sabourin down and out of the play.

The Crunch almost escaped the second with a 2-0 lead, but Brian Willsie corralled his original shot from the slot that was blocked by Sbisa and slid it past J.P. Levasseur to cut it to 2-1 at the 17:54 mark.

Boyd Kane scored the first of his two goals five and a half minutes into the third period to knot it at 2-2, and Lawrence Nycholat found the back of the Crunch net with a wrister from the point through traffic to put Hershey up 3-2 just 24 seconds later.

Crunch head coach Mark Holick called a timeout to settle the team down and that seemed to work, as Syracuse was able to tally the equalizer on Palmieri's sharp-angle bid on the power play with four minutes to go in regulation.

The score stayed that way until Kane found the puck in front of the Crunch net and banged it through a few bodies past Levasseur for the game-winner 1:43 into the extra session.

CRUNCHABLES: Bonino extended his assist streak to five games (0g, 7a).Sbisa extended his point streak to four games (2g, 5a).The Crunch are 6 for their last 16 on the power play.The Crunch still have not given up a power play goal at home this season.

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