AHL Syracuse Crunch

Penguins Hand Crunch Their First Regulation Loss

Published on October 28, 2012 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch News Release


Syracuse, NY - The Syracuse Crunch fell to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 4-1 tonight at the War Memorial Arena. The loss was the team's first regulation loss of the 2012-13 season.

For the first time this season the Crunch were unable to score on the power play. The Penguins penalty kill unit stayed perfect, keeping the Crunch power-play unit off the board during seven attempts.

The Crunch jumped out to an early lead with a goal from Cory Conacher (assisted by Alex Killorn and Brett Connolly) just 38 seconds into the contest. After allowing the Crunch's first shot of the game to score Penguins goaltender Jeff Zatkoff turned aside the next 34 shots he faced.

The Penguins went on to score three unanswered goal for a final score of 4-1.

Eric Tangradi scored his first of two goals at the 14:10 mark of the first period assisted by Alex Grant, Tangradi would add an empty netter to secure the Penguins win at the 18:06 mark of the third period.

Former Crunch center Riley Holzapfel scored the eventual game winner 5:35 into the second period (assisted by Brian Gibbons and Dylan Reese).

Beau Bennett added a power-play goal at the 7:57 mark of the second (assisted by Trevor Smith and Benn Ferriero). Crunch netminder Dustin Tokarski saved 25 of 28 shots faced tonight.

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