The Jekyll and Hyde season of the Syracuse Crunch continued last week as they split a home-and-home series against the Rochester Americans and dealt a huge blow to Belleville’s playoff hopes.
All of the good feelings that came from the 6-1 thrashing of the Amerks on Friday were erased by a disaster of a game on Saturday as the Crunch fell 5-2 on home ice to Rochester. With a chance to basically wrap up the North Division, the Crunch played one of their worst games of the season and let the Americans climb back to within three points of the lead (a gap that narrowed on Monday as Rochester defeated Cleveland).