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Syracuse crushes Springfield under a mountain of goals.
SPR-4
SYR-9
Matt Tomkins allowed four goals on 22 shots for the victory, whilst doing a snow angel in a deep bank of pure goal support.
First Period
1:14 SYR Brown (8), (Geekie)
2:37 SYR Sheary (15), (Duke, Finley)
5:44 SYR Brown (9), (Carlile, Crozier)
8:18 SPR Luff (18), (Johannesson, Stenberg)
13:35 SYR Walford (1), (Finley, Newkirk)
15:35 SPR Luff (19), (Peca, MacEachern)
18:11 SPR Skinner (8), (Luff, Peca)
Second Period
2:37 SYR Finley (11), (Geekie, Pouliot)(PP)
2:56 SYR Walcott (3), (Szturc)
9:05 SYR Szturc (5), (Carlile, Newkirk)
10:45 SPR Peca (27), (Skinner, Kaskimaki)
Third Period
7:27 SYR Sheary (16), (Duke)
11:48 SYR Brown (10), (Geekie, Angello)
Logan Brown, Conor Sheary, and Jack Finley (always bet on JACK) were the game’s three stars. In his last nine games, Brown has 5-6-11, including tonight’s hat trick. Jack Finley has 9-7-16 in his last 14 games. Fellow tall forward Conor Geekie registered his first multi-point AHL game with assists in triplicate and has 2-4-6 in his last six games.
It’s been a roller coaster and will probably continue to be so with the stakes so high in every game. But, tonight, the Crunch continued to rise to the occasion with a critical victory that allowed them to maintain their two point edge on Belleville for the last playoff spot in the North Division with the Sens still holding a game in hand after they crushed Bridgeport 6-1 this evening. The real drama as of this writing is happening in unincorporated Texas near Austin where the Stars have a 3-1 lead over Cleveland through 40 minutes. Should that score hold, Syracuse will be just two points back of the Monsters with both teams having 15 games left to play.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
