4
0
Season’s end.
CLE-6
SYR-4
Cleveland Wins the Series 3-0
Matt Tomkins allowed five goals on 26 shots for the loss.
First Period
14:16 CLE Gaudet (2), (Angle, Zboril)
16:38 SYR Barre-Boulet (3), (Crozier, Huuhtanen)(PP)
Second Period
11:02 CLE Matteau (1), (Jiricek, Sillinger)(PP)
16:47 SYR Koepke (4), (Day, Stephens)
17:52 SYR Bellerive (3), (Huuhtanen, Walcott)
Third Period
1:02 CLE Whelan (2), (Pearson, Dunne)
9:29 CLE Dunne (3), (Whelan, Bjork)
16:32 SYR Barre-Boulet (4), (Carlile, Fortier)
17:42 CLE Del Bel Belluz (1), (Fix-Wolansky)
18:59 CLE Ahcan (1), (Bjork)(EN)
Alex Barre-Boulet and Phil Myers were the game’s second and third stars.
This series was always going to be a tough one if Cleveland played with some defensive structure because they were the more talented team overall, and when they won Game One 1-0 that was a bad omen. The Crunch conclude a relatively successful campaign in the maiden voyage under Joel Bouchard who gave the team a pretty distinctive defensive identity. How the organization constructs some more offensive punch to go with it will be the next challenge.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
