Emery's Debut Spoiled by San Antonio, 4-2
February 18, 2011 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release
Syracuse, NY - Brett MacLean tallied a hat trick and Matt Climie stopped 38 of 40 shots, as the San Antonio Rampage spoiled the Syracuse Crunch debut of Ray Emery, downing the home team by a 4-2 score tonight at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.
Matt Beleskey and Josh Green each had two points (1g, 1a), as the Crunch fell to 18-30-2-4 on the season. The Crunch host rival Rochester at home tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.
MacLean gave his club an early 1-0 lead on the power play at the 8:51 mark of the first when he picked up a hard carom off the end boards and quickly flicked a shot from the side of the net over the shoulder Emery.
San Antonio was able to keep the Crunch off the scoreboard and outshot the home team 14-7 in the game's first 20 minutes of play.
Bracken Kearns put the visitors up 2-0 at the 13:38 mark of the second when he was able to pick up a long rebound at the left face-off dot from a Mathieu Beaudoin shot and fired a wrister past a diving Emery moving from left to right into the open side.
Just 26 seconds later, San Antonio cashed in again to grab a 3-0 lead when MacLean charged hard to the net by himself and was able to poke the puck past Emery on a jam play for his second tally of the game.
The Crunch were helped out when the Rampage got themselves into some penalty trouble late in the second when David Schlemko was called for slashing at the 15:52 mark and Viktor Tikhonov followed with a tripping infraction 1:26 later, setting up a 5-on-3 advantage for Syracuse.
Although they did not capitalize on the two-man advantage, the Crunch did finally break through on the 5-on-4 when Green wound up and ripped a slapper from the right point that found its way through a screen past Climie to cut the deficit to 3-1. The goal was Green's first in 19 games. The Crunch put up a season-high 20 shots on goal in the second period.
Syracuse carried over the momentum into the third and controlled the first few minutes of action. The Crunch got to within one when Nicolas Deschamps won a race to a loose puck along the left wing boards and slid a pass through the legs of a San Antonio defenseman right to the stick of Beleskey in front, who pounded the puck past Climie to make it a 3-2 game.
The Crunch threw 13 third period shots at Climie, but could not solve the Rampage netminder the rest of the way.
MacLean re-gained the two-tally lead for his club on a penalty shot, deking to his backhand and roofing a shot over Emery to make it 4-2. The Crunch pulled Emery in the game's final two minutes, but could not get the equalizer.
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