Syracuse Crunch 4/19/2014 9:45:00 PM

Syracuse concludes season with 3-1 win over Hamilton

3-1 Win

Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Crunch concluded their 20^th AHL campaign with a 3-1 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs at the FirstOntario Centre tonight.

The win brings the Crunch's 2013-14 record to 31-32-4-9 and gives the team their first win of the season against the Bulldogs, to end the best-of-four season series 1-2-0-1.

Cedrick Desjardins turned aside 22 of 23 shots faced for the win while former Crunch netminder Dustin Tokarski allowed three goals on 24 shots. The Crunch allowed one Bulldogs power-play goal on four attempts and were unable to convert on their three man-advantage opportunities.

The Bulldogs opened the scoring with a power-play goal from Nathan Beaulieu 8:14 into the first frame. Beaulieu tapped in a feed from Mike Blunden to give Hamilton an early 1-0 lead.

The Crunch responded with two second period tallies to go into the final frame with a 2-1 lead. Evan Rankin tied the game when his shot deflected off the skate of a Bulldog past Tokarski 15:07 into the second stanza. Another Bulldogs redirection sent a Luke Witkowski point shot into the back of the net 1:17 later.

The Crunch extended their lead with the only goal of the third period, 14:27 into the final frame. Jonathan Marchessault beat Tokarski from the left wing side during a three-on-one odd man rush.

CRUNCHABLES: Although the Crunch concluded their 76 game regular season tonight forward Jonathan Marchessault appeared in 77 games this season, 56 with the Springfield Falcons and 21 with the Syracuse Crunch…Marchessault will end the 2013-14 season as the team leader in goals scored with 23 (14 for Springfield, 9 for Syracuse)…Goalie Cedrick Desjardins earned his first point of the season with a secondary assist on Luke Witkowski's second period goal…Brett Connolly finishes the season as the team's point leader with 57 (21g, 36a).

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