February 6, 2010

SYRACUSE, NY – The Syracuse Crunch scored five third period goals on their way to a 5-0 shutout of the Adirondack Phantoms Saturday night at the Onondaga County War Memorial at Oncenter.

After a scoreless first period where the Crunch led in shots on goal 8-3, the Phantoms carried the play in the second frame, out-shooting Syracuse 14-6. Crunch goaltender Kevin Lalande had an outstanding period, making numerous stretching split-pad saves to deny Adirondack. At the other end John Grahame did not see a lot of shots, but had to be very alert to stop Trevor Frischmon’s shorthanded breakaway.

In the third period the tides turned when Jared Aulin scored a power play goal to open the scoring at 2:30, but the real dagger was Jonathan Siglet’s goal 47 seconds later, which gave the Crunch a quick 2-0 lead. Sigalet struck again five minutes later with a power play goal, his second of the night at 8:12 to make it 3-0. Aulin added his second of the game at 16:11, just as Patrick Maroon was stepping out of the penalty box, and Alexander Picard scored his 11th goal of the year at 18:11 to cap off a five-goal third period for Syracuse, who out-shot the Phantoms 22-3 during the frame.

Kevin Lalande earned the victory and made 22 saves for his first shutout of the year as Syracuse improved to 22-23-3-3. John Grahame finished with 31 saves on 36 shots as Adirondack dropped back to .500 (23-23-2-2). The Crunch out-shot the Phantoms 36-22 in the game and went 2-for-5 on the power play; Adirondack was 0-for-7 with the man-advantage.

Adirondack now returns home as they host the Western Conference’s Rochester Americans on Wednesday, February 10th for a 7:00 pm face off at the Civic Center.

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FINAL BOX SCORE

Adirondack Phantoms 0 At Syracuse Crunch 5 - Status: Final
Feb 6, 2010 - Onondaga County War Memorial at Oncenter

Adirondack 0 0 0 - 0
Syracuse 0 0 5 - 5

1st Period- No Scoring.Penalties-Radja Syr (hooking), 5:42; Bell Syr (hooking), 6:29; Ward Adk (hooking), 15:55.

2nd Period- No Scoring.Penalties-Kana Syr (holding the stick), 0:36; Kana Syr (tripping), 6:29; Bell Syr (boarding), 9:50; Bodrov Adk (hooking), 14:11; Harvey Syr (slashing), 17:52.

3rd Period-1, Syracuse, Aulin 13 (Picard, Bell), 2:30 (pp). 2, Syracuse, Sigalet 6 (Radja, Mayorov), 3:17. 3, Syracuse, Sigalet 7 (MacKenzie, Holden), 8:02 (pp). 4, Syracuse, Aulin 14 (LaVallee-Smotherman, Reese), 16:11. 5, Syracuse, Picard 11 (Radja), 18:11. Penalties-Legein Adk (tripping), 1:16; Marshall Adk (tripping), 6:06; Maroon Adk (roughing), 14:11; Maroon Adk (roughing), 19:25; Mirasty Syr (roughing, roughing), 19:25.

Shots on Goal-Adirondack 3-16-3-22. Syracuse 8-6-22-36.

Power Play Opportunities-Adirondack 0 of 7; Syracuse 2 of 5.

Goalies-Adirondack, Grahame 2-8-0 (36 shots-31 saves). Syracuse, Lalande 16-11-2 (22 shots-22 saves).

A-6,149

Referees-Ian Croft (87).
Linesmen-Peter Feola (33), Brian Lemon (25).