Four score and seven days ago, the Syracuse Crunch beat the Rochester Americans to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
Okay, it wasn’t quite that long ago, but it has been a week since they took the ice. Considering there was three days between Game 2 and Game 3 in that series, the Crunch have only played once in the last two weeks. That’s not a lot of hockey at this time of year. So, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for them to be a little rusty when they kick off their series against the Toronto Marlies today in Toronto.