The Bears played the last four games in a seven game homestand this week before traveling out for a three game road trip through Connecticut and New York. With the Syracuse Crunch in town again, the Bears could not complete the same dramatic comeback from before Christmas.
Despite a dominating effort in the first period, allowing only one shot from the Crunch on a penalty kill clearnance, the Chocolate and White could not capitalize on three of their own power plays and the one sputtering effort from Syracuse. Tye McGinn broke the deadlock when the Bears defense failed to clear the zone and he was able to slide it past Dan Ellis at 9:15 of the second.