Crunch get the false hope goal, but fall in Utica.
SYR-4
UTI-5
Eddie Pasquale allowed 5 goals on 27 shots for the loss before being replaced for the Third Period where Martin Ouellette made 2 saves on 2 shots the rest of the way.
First Period
0:25 UTI Pyatt (2), (Boucher)
18:41 UTI Dahlen (10), (Kero, Boucher)(PP)
Second Period
3:00 UTI Gaudette (5), (Bancks, MacEwen)
3:59 SYR Barre-Boulet (19), (Verhaeghe)
4:57 SYR Dumont (4), (Katchouk, Raddysh)
5:38 UTI Dahlen (11), (Gaunce, MacEwen)
15:33 UTI Lind (1), (Gaudette, Blujus)
Third Period
1:02 SYR Dumont (5), (Raddysh, Valleau)
7:03 SYR Volkov (9), (Foote, Yan)(PP)
A three goal deficit in the Third Period in pro hockey remains a death sentence seemingly 99% of the time. You might get the false hope goal to draw within one, but it's so hard to get a game tied and even harder to get all the way across the finish line to a victory. Syracuse came within an eyelash of tying the game late, but that's why the false hope goal is called the false hope goal.
Syracuse has fallen 3 points back of first place in the North Division and have burned off many of their games in hand, now holding just one game in hand on division leading Rochester, although they hold a staggering six games in hand on division co-leading Utica.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
