Syracuse Crunch center Brady Brassart was streaking towards the Charlotte Checkers’ net when teammate Hubert Labrie slid the puck towards him. There was about seven minutes to go in a one-goal game. The pass made it through and Alex Nedeljkovic slid over in desperation to stop Brassart’s shot. Instead of going in the net, the puck slid just wide of the right post and bounced harmlessly off of the end boards.
That was the story of the game for the Crunch as they lost 4-2 to the Checkers in the second game of their back-to-back meetings this week.