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Near perfection puts Syracuse on the brink of advancing.
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SYR-3
Syracuse Leads the Series 2-0
Max Lagace stopped all 18 shots he faced for the shutout victory.
First Period
1:52 SYR Jones (1), (Robert)
11:29 SYR Goncalves (1), (Barre-Boulet, Thompson)
Second Period
NO SCORING
Third Period
19:27 SYR Goncalves (2), (Barre-Boulet, Ryfors)(EN)
Lagace, Gage Goncalves, and Cole Koepke were the game’s three stars.
Syracuse painted a Picasso that, in a best-of-five series, gives them up to three chances now to eliminate Rochester. The grabbed a 2-0 lead in the First Period in a frame where they outshot the Americans a stunning 14-0. In the Second Period, they killed a 5 minute major on a kneeing call against Dumont to maintain their margin. And all along the way, Lagace made the saves to make it stand up. This team has essentially been playing playoff hockey for the last month and a half and if tonight was a kind of midterm exam, playing against a Rochester team that absolutely needed this game, they aced it.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
