After falling just short of a victory in Utica on Wednesday night, the Crunch turned their attention to a pair of contests this past weekend against another two divisional rivals, Toronto and Binghamton.
The meeting with the North Division-leading Marlies came on Friday night in front of a great crowd of 5,567 at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena. The Black Friday match-up proved to be a tough test for a Syracuse squad that wasn’t able to dress two of their most dangerous threats. Forwards Cory Conacher and Gabriel Dumont were both listed as day-to-day with injuries.
Kristers Gudlevskis would get the nod for his second straight start opposite Marlies goaltender Antoine Bibeau.