Admirals Game Results

AHL Game Night: 11-30-13 Crunch at Phantoms

3 days 22 hours ago

Dump Truck delivers (again).

SYR-1
ADK-0

Cedrick Desjardins stopped all 28 shots he faced for the shutout victory. Goaltending will be extra important if Syracuse is going to ride out this stretch at less than full strength, and Desjardins gave them that goaltending tonight.

First Period
NO SCORING

Second Period
NO SCORING

Third Period
SYR Paquette, (6) (Gauthier, Connolly), 12:00 (PP)

Desjardins and Cedric Paquette were the game's first and second stars. Paquette (Dump Truck!) had the game winning goal for the second straight game. Coming out of quite the scoring slumber, Brett Connolly also had an assist for the second straight game. That's a welcome sign from last year's 2nd Team AHL All-Star.

Box score from TheAHL.com.
AHL Game Night: 11-29-13 IceCaps at Crunch

4 days 21 hours ago

Dump Truck delivers.

STJ-2
SYR-4

Cedrick Desjardins allowed 2 goals on 28 shots for the victory.

First Period
SYR Kaunisto, (1) (Langelier-Parent, Neilson), 18:10

Second Period
SYR Walker, (2) (Paquette, Korobov), 12:10 (PP)
STJ Jaffray, (7) (Gordon, Redmond), 13:52 (PP)
STJ Lipon, (4) (Lowry), 14:15

Third Period
SYR Paquette, (5) (Devos, Gauthier), 15:36
SYR Gauthier, (3) (Connolly), 19:05 (EN)

Cedric Paquette (Dump Truck!) and Ray Kaunisto were the game's first and third stars.

I don't know what it is about the IceCaps, but the Lightning organization could stick cardboard cutouts in jerseys and still beat them. SyraNo has just had their number - big time - and tonight was a win Syracuse really needed to right the ship even though, when you look up and down the roster, it's very hard to find familiar names.

Syracuse faces Adirondack tomorrow as they attempt to put a little unlikely streak together here.

Box score from TheAHL.com.
Crunch Snap Skid By Beating IceCaps, 4-2

4 days 22 hours ago

By Jeremy Houghtaling

The Syracuse Crunch can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Cedric Paquette scored with less than five minutes remaining in regulation to lift Syracuse past the St. John's IceCaps, 4-2, snapping the Crunch's five-game losing streak at the Onondaga County War Memorial Friday.

"I told them 'We are what we are, you game it out and play the right way and let the chips fall, and the result will take care of itself,'" said Crunch coach Rob Zettler.
AHL Game Night: 11-23-13 Bulldogs at Crunch

1 week 3 days ago

I hate all teams named "Bulldogs".

HAM-3
SYR-0

Cedrick Desjardins allowed 3 goals on 33 shots for the loss.

First Period
NO SCORING

Second Period
HAM Thomas, (1) (St. Pierre, Beaulieu), 1:29 (PP)
HAM Pateryn, (4) (Schiestel, Leblanc), 7:18 (PP)

Third Period
HAM Beaulieu, (2) (St. Pierre, Thomas), 6:47 (PP)

Nikita Nesterov was the game's third star.

Evidently hell hath no fury like Dusting Tokarski scorned. Tic stopped 43 shots in the blanking of his former teammates.

Syracuse gets Binghamton on Wednesday. They've now dropped to 7th in the Eastern Conference.

Box score from TheAHL.com.
Tokarski, Bulldogs Power Past Crunch, 3-0

1 week 3 days ago

By Jeremy Houghtaling

While Syracuse failed to convert on six power play chances, the Hamilton Bulldogs cashed in three times to hand the Crunch its fourth-straight loss, 3-0, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Saturday.

Former Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Dustin Tokarski stopped all 43 Crunch shots for his first shutout of the season with Hamilton.

"He played really well," said Syracuse defenseman Matt Taormina of Tokarski. "He did see a lot of shots, but we didn't really get in front to screen him."
AHL Game Night: 11-22-13 Crunch at Bulldogs

1 week 4 days ago

Rough result in Montreal.

SYR-1
HAM-4

Cedrick Desjardins allowed 3 goals on 26 shots for the loss.

First Period
HAM Blunden, (4) (Dumont, Tinordi), 15:55

Second Period
HAM Ellis, (1) (St. Pierre, Nystrom), 11:00
HAM Dumont, (1) (Blunden), 13:06

Third Period
SYR Cote, (2) (Richard, Paradis), 15:13
HAM Blunden, (5) (Ellis), 19:00 (EN)

Tonight was a special game with the Bulldogs playing in front of the big league crowd in Montreal. Between that an Dustin Tokarski's obvious motivation playing against his old organization, Hamilton had some extra juice for this one.

These two clubs square off again tomorrow night, and Syracuse should have Brett Connolly in the lineup.

Update:
Following the game Crunch GM Julien BriseBois confirmed Vladislav Namestnikov broke his hand in tonight's game.

Box score from TheAHL.com.
Crunch Fall to Devils in Shootout, 2-1

2 weeks 3 days ago

By Jeremy Houghtaling

Cedrick Desjardins stopped 32 shots during regulation and overtime, as well as three out of four shootout attempts, but the Syracuse Crunch fell to the Albany Devils, 2-1, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Saturday.

"Cedrick was the reason we got one point tonight," said Syracuse coach Rob Zettler. "We gave up a number of Grade A chances, including breakaways and point blank shots that we normally don't give up...He came up huge for us."

"We battled hard, gave everything we've got," Desjardins said. "But we fell a little short."
AHL Game Night: 11-16-13 Devils at Crunch

2 weeks 3 days ago

CDJ bested in a goaltender's duel.

ALB-2
SYR-1 (SO)

Cedrick Desjardins allowed 1 goal on 33 shots before allowing 1 of 4 shooters to convert to take the shootout loss.

First Period
NO SCORING

Second Period
ALB Scarlett, (1) (Whitney, Boucher), 17:55 (PP)
SYR Kucherov, (13) (Cote), 18:19

Third Period
NO SCORING

Overtime
NO SCORING

Shootout
ALB- Boucher
SYR- NONE

Desjardins was the game's second star.

Both goaltenders played really well and it took a laser from Kucherov to get anything at all on Kincaid. These games happen over the course of the year. The key is to not start cutting it too fine on your chances or overpass just because you've had a little scoring block.

The Crunch are off until Friday when they'll face Hamilton.

Box score from TheAHL.com.
Penguins Snap Crunch's Win Streak, 5-3

2 weeks 4 days ago

By Jeremy Houghtaling

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins jumped out to an early lead and held on to snap the Syracuse Crunch's three-game win streak, 5-3, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Friday.

The Penguins scored three times in the first period against Crunch goalie Riku Helenius, who played in his first game since being injured Oct. 19.

"I thought we were rolling a little bit in the first period, and I felt good about it," said Crunch coach Rob Zettler. "Then they had a goal, and boom-boom, they followed it up with a couple more."
AHL Game Night: 11-15-13 Penguins at Crunch

2 weeks 5 days ago

Callups/blueline injuries help crush Crunch.

WBS-5
SYR-3

Riku Helenius allowed 5 goals on 27 shots for the loss in his first start back from injury.

First Period
WBS Despres, (3) (Mikkelson), 2:26
WBS Megna, (4) (Despres, Gibbons), 11:23
WBS Conner, (6) (Despres, Gibbons), 19:44 (PP)

Second Period
SYR Namestnikov, (8) (Kucherov, Cote), 7:29
WBS Kostopoulos, (5) (Harrington, Ebbett), 12:55
SYR Rankin, (5) (Paquette), 19:41

Third Period
WBS Gibbons, (6) (Conner, Zolnierczyk), 1:41
SYR Gauthier, (2) (Namestnikov), 10:38

Vladislav Namestnikov was the game's third star. It was kind of a perfect storm against Syracuse with Korobov up in Tampa and Taormina and Nesterov out, along with the top line auditioning a new winger with Brown up and Helenius possibly a little rusty in his first start back. Life in the minors. They'll build off the fact they won the final 40 minutes of the game 3-2. They face Albany tomorrow.

Box score from TheAHL.com.