The Syracuse Crunch arrived in Toronto Wednesday to play the Marlies for the third time this season. After getting swept in the weekend series that these two teams played in the middle of November, the third time was the charm fort Syracuse. The Crunch beat the Marlies by a score of 3-1.
Unfortunately, their solid win would not be the story of this game.
Here are my play-by-play thoughts.
Syracuse gets the first power play of the game after Colin Greening takes a tripping penalty. On the power play, Jamie McBain gets a few chances to shoot the puck from the point, but is ultimately stopped by Garret Sparks, who makes some unscreened positional saves.