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 3rd period collapse dooms
Cleveland
Another goalie leaves game with
injury
1/5/04 - by Craig Haueter
The
Syracuse Crunch improved to 3-1-0 against the Barons this season with a 6-4
come-from-behind win Sunday night in Syracuse, New York. Dimitri Patzold became
the second goaltender to suffer an injury this week after suffering an ankle
injury near the end of the second period.
The Barons top defensive
scorer, Garrett Stafford, scored his 6th goal of the season on a power play at
the 7:17 mark of the first period to put Cleveland up 1-0. Syracuse’s
enforcer, Brandon Sugden, tied the contest later in the period on a unassisted
goal, shooting a laser slap shot past Patzold from the Barons blue
line.
The only goal of the second period was enough to give the Barons
a 2-1 lead after forty minutes. Captain Tavis Hansen scored his 7th goal of the
season on an assist from Craig Valette. Patzold left the game with just under
two minutes to play in the period after contact in the crease and journeyman
backup Bujar Amidovski replaced him.
Amidovski and his fellow Barons
were bombarded with five Syracuse goals and 19 shots in the final period. Mark
Hartigan and Donald MacLean would each score a pair of goals in the period for
Syracuse. After Lynn Loyns cut the Crunch advantage to 4-3 at the 6:05 mark on
a short-handed goal, Brad Moran and MacLean’s second goal of the night
during Doug Murray’s costly five-minute high sticking major pushed
Syracuse’s lead back out to a 6-3 margin. Miroslav Zalesak’s 20th
goal of the season closed out the scoring and left the Barons a couple of goals
short. Syracuse would outshoot the Barons 39-28 for the game.
The
Barons are idle until this weekend when they travel to Hamilton on Friday night
and Grand Rapids Saturday night as they play the top two teams in the Western
Conference.
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