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Crunch Beaten by B-Sens
Syracuse, NY, (Friday, October 9, 2009)
Binghamton, NY (October 9, 2009) – Six unanswered goals did in the Syracuse Crunch tonight, as they fell by a 6-2 count to the Binghamton Senators before 3,011 fans at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
After a six day layoff between games, the Crunch looked for a fast start after a good week of practice and got exactly that 30 seconds into the game. Captain Derek MacKenzie kept the puck in the offensive zone with a takeaway along the left side boards and shuffled the puck to Maksim Mayorov.
Mayorov had to make a quick play with a man on him and slid a pass to the middle where Brent Regner stepped up and rifled a shot to the top corner over Binghamton starter Mike Brodeur to make it 1-0.
The Crunch kept the pressure on and tallied again seven and a half minutes later on a five-minute power play with Binghamton’s Jeremy Yablonski in the box for fighting. Yablonski was also given an instigator and a10-minute misconduct on the play.
Pascal Pelletier found the puck in the corner and snaked a pass through traffic right on the blade of Jared Aulin in front of the net. Aulin one-timed the disk right through Brodeur’s five-hole for the 2-0 Syracuse lead. The Crunch took that 2-0 lead into the locker room after the first frame despite being outshot 10-5.
Binghamton bounced back to tie the game at the 5:25 mark of the second when Zack Smith found a rebound on the doorstep from a Josh Hennessy shot and put it over the outstretched pad of Dan LaCosta to make it 2-1.
The B-Sens tied the game just 34 seconds later on the power play after Dylan Reese was called for interference at the 5:41 mark. Denis Hamel went to the net and tipped in Brian Lee’s wrister from the point to make it 2-2.
Binghamton would take a 3-2 lead before the period was over when Ryan Keller found the rebound of a Geoff Kinrade shot, showed some patience and roofed it over LaCosta’s left pad with less than three minutes to go in the second.
The third period was all Binghamton, as Craig Schira, Keegan Dansereau and Tim Spencer all tallied to put the Senators up by a 6-2 score.
Three Stars:
- Ryan Keller
- Zack Smith
- Tim Spencer
The Crunch host Adirondack for Quickway Opening Night tomorrow at 7:30 at the War Memorial at Oncenter. Special guest, The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio will be on hand signing autographs during the first intermission.
CRUNCHABLES: Jared Aulin scored his first goal as a member of the Crunch…Brent Regner tallied his first professional goal…David Liffiton notched his first point (assist) as a member of the Crunch tonight…The Crunch have been outscored 10-4 in the first two games of the season.