Syracuse Crunch WeeklY 2016-17 Crunch Schedule War Memorial Arena • 800 S. State St. • Syracuse, NY 13202 • 315-473-4444 • www.SyracuseCrunch.com • @SyracuseCrunch OCTOBER (4-3-0-0 – 2-1-0-0 home, 2-2-0-0 road) 15 Sat. ROCHESTER W, 4-1 Weekly Release — February 22, 2017 — Vol. 23, No. 19 16 Sun. at Rochester W, 6-3 21 Fri. UTICA L, 5-4 . . . AS IS EVER SO ON THE ROAD 22 Sat. at W-B/Scranton L, 3-1 WEEK 19 RESULTS Syracuse salvaged a victory Sunday to close Week 19 Wednesday, Feb. 15 | Game 50 at Albany | L, 6-1 28 Fri. at Binghamton W, 4-3 1-2-0-0. The 5-3 win at St. John's secured Syracuse the 29 Sat. PROVIDENCE W, 3-2 SYR 0 0 1 - 1 Shots: 10-6-11-27 PP: 0/7 division lead for the 14th consecutive week. With 24 ALB 2 4 0 - 6 Shots: 11-18-6-35 PP: 3/8 30 Sun. at W-B/Scranton L, 6-1 regular season games left, the Crunch are 26-17-4-5 with NOVEMBER (7-2-0-2 | 4-0-0-1 home | 3-2-0-1 road) 3rd Per. - Comrie 7 (Morin), 4:34. . Wilcox 16-9-3 (29 shots-23 the sixth best points percentage in the conference (.587). saves); Gudlevskis 9-7-6 (6 shots-6 saves). 4 Fri. at Rochester W, 3-2 The Crunch play two more road games—Wednesday at 5 Sat. UTICA W, 2-1 Toronto and Friday at Rochester—before coming home Saturday, Feb. 18 | Game 51 at St. John's | L, 6-1 11 Fri. BRIDGEPORT SOL, 3-2 SYR 1 0 0 - 1 Shots: 8-12-10-30 PP: 1/2 Saturday, ending a stretch of 12 road games out of 14 STJ 2 3 1 - 6 Shots: 9-16-12-37 PP: 1/5 12 Sat. ROCHESTER W, 7-2 overall. Syracuse is 6-5-1 in the last 12 games. 18 Fri. at Hershey L, 5-1 1st Per. - Taormina 13 (Peca, Erne), 11:00 (PP). Gudlevskis 9-8-6 Syracuse has won six straight when scoring first. The (20 shots-16 saves); Wilcox 16-9-3 (17 shots-15 saves). 19 Sat. ALBANY W, 3-2 team is winless in the last 13 games it has allowed the 23 Wed. at Utica L, 2-1 first (0-8-5). For the season, Syracuse is 20-3-1-2 Sunday, Feb. 19 | Game 52 at St. John's | W, 5-3 25 Fri. TORONTO W, 5-4 (OT) when scoring first (.827), and 6-14-3-3 when not (.346). SYR 3 0 2 - 5 Shots: 10-8-6-24 PP: 2/8 26 Sat. at Binghamton W, 4-2 When allowing the first goal in road games, Syracuse is STJ 0 1 2 - 3 Shots: 8-6-16-30 PP: 3/7 29 Tue. at St. John’s W, 6-2 2-10-2-1 (.233) and winless in the last 11. 1st Per. - Thomas 2 (Vermin, Koekkoek), 5:33. Erne 12 (Comrie, 30 Wed. at St. John’s SOL, 3-2 Taormina), 8:51 (PP). Darcy 3 (Brodeur), 11:42. 3rd Per. - Erne DECEMBER (7-4-0-2 | 6-1-0-1 home | 1-3-0-1 road) TOP PERFORMERS 13 (Condra, Taormina), 0:54 (PP). Halmo 14 (Gourde, Vermin), 3 Sat. ROCHESTER W, 6-2 Adam Erne totaled three points in Week 19, including 11:28. Wilcox 17-9-3 (30 shots-27 saves). 4 Sun. at Hershey L, 4-2 a two-goal effort Sunday in St. John's. Both scores were Category Average/Total AHL Rank (Prev) 7 Wed. LEHIGH VALLEY W, 4-2 power-play goals, the second of which was the game- 9 Fri. ALBANY W, 4-2 Power Play 15.6% (38-for-243) 21st (21st) winner. Four of his six multi-point games for the season Penalty Kill 82.8% (192-for-232) 10th (5th) 10 Sat. UTICA W, 4-3 (SO) are multi-goal performances. 16 Fri. at Hartford SOL, 2-1 Erne has five goals and seven points in five games since Goals For 3.00 GFA (156) 12th (12th) 17 Sat. at Bridgeport W, 5-3 returning from injury including two game-winning Goals Against 3.02 GAA (157) 20th (16th) 18 Sun. at Providence L, 3-1 strikes. For the season, Erne has 13 goals, tied for third on Shots For 29.42 SF/G (1530) 16th (14th) 21 Wed. HARTFORD L, 5-4 the Crunch, and 25 points, sixth on the team. Erne is tied Shots Against 26.85 SA/G (1396) 1st (1st) 26 Mon. at Rochester L, 5-1 with Matt Taormina for the team lead in first goals (4). Penalty Minutes 17.60 PIM/G (915) 1st (2nd) 28 Wed. HERSHEY W, 3-2 (OT) ✳✳✳ Category Leader 30 Fri. BINGHAMTON SOL, 3-2 Matt Taormina had a goal and three points in two games 31 Sat. ST. JOHN’S W, 7-5 at St. John's to recapture the Crunch scoring lead at 43 Points 43 Taormina JANUARY (4-3-4-1 | 2-3-1-0 home | 2-0-3-1 road) points, one better than Cory Conacher who was recalled Goals 18 Gourde 6 Fri. at Rochester SOL, 4-3 by Tampa Bay prior to Saturday's game. Taormina is tied Assists 32 Conacher 7 Sat. ST. JOHN’S OTL, 2-1 with Lehigh Valley's T.J. Brennan for most points by a PIM 102 Letourneau-Leblond 11 Wed. at Utica OTL, 2-1 defenseman in the league, and ninth overall. Plus/Minus +12 Brodeur 13 Fri. TORONTO W, 5-4 Taormina scored a power-play goal Saturday, his 13th Wins 17 Wilcox 14 Sat. W-B/SCRANTON L, 3-1 marker of the season, third most on the Crunch. He leads 16 Mon. W-B/SCRANTON W, 4-1 GAA 2.74 Gudlevskis Syracuse at seven power-play goals. Taormina added Save % .896 Wilcox 18 Wed. at Albany OTL, 3-2 a pair of power-play assists in Sunday's win, his team- 20 Fri. BINGHAMTON L, 4-2 leading 11th multi-point game. He has 23 power-play played eight games for St. John's last year and made his 21 Sat. UTICA L, 4-0 points, a Crunch best and most by an AHL defenseman. pro debut in Syracuse March 20. He's played 50 of 52 25 Wed. at W-B/Scranton OTL, 3-2 27 Fri. at Springfield W, 4-3 Taormina has equaled his goal total (13) and surpassed games for Manchester this year, with 29 points (13g, 16a). 28 Sat. at Utica W, 4-3 (SO) his point total (41) from last season. He's seven points Forwards Cam Darcy and Brian Hart were reassigned to shy of his career best (50) from 2009-10 with Lowell. One the ECHL's . FEBRUARY (12 games – 3 home, 9 road) more goal would be a new career high. 2 Thu. at Albany L, 3-2 ✳✳✳ UPCOMING: TORONTO, ROCHESTER 4 Sat. at Toronto W, 5-3 Other notable performers from Week 19 include Joel The Crunch visit the Marlies 11 a.m. Wednesday. 5 Sun. at Toronto L, 3-2 Vermin (two assists Sunday in St. John's), Adam Comrie Syracuse is 3-1 vs. Toronto through four of eight meetings. 10 Fri. BINGHAMTON L, 3-2 (a goal Wednesday and a power-play assist Sunday) and Wednesday would be the first matchup of the Conacher 11 Sat. ROCHESTER W, 5-2 Adam Wilcox (27 saves in Sunday's victory). Mike Halmo, brothers. Cory, 27, was reassigned to the Crunch Sunday. 12 Sun. at Utica W, 3-2 after missing Saturday's game with injury, recorded a key Shane, 22, was recalled by the Marlies from the ECHL's 15 Wed. at Albany L, 6-1 18 Sat. at St. John’s L, 6-1 insurance goal in Sunday's 5-3 win. Halmo's 14 goals are Orlando Solar Bears Tuesday. The Burlington, Ontario 19 Sun. at St. John’s W, 5-3 second on the Crunch. natives played at Canisius College in Buffalo. Toronto is 11-2-1-0 in its last 14 games, including a 5-3 22 Wed. at Toronto 11 a.m. TRANSACTIONS 24 Fri. at Rochester 7:05 p.m. loss to Syracuse Feb. 4. The Marlies, third in the North 25 Sat. ROCHESTER 7 p.m. Syracuse signed two players to professional tryout Division at 27-22-3-1 (.547), are led by Byron Froese (24g, contracts Tuesday, 6-foot-4 left wing Kevin Morris, 24, 15a), Brendan Leipsic (11g, 27a) and Kerby Rychel (11g, MARCH (14 games – 9 home, 5 road) and 5-foot-11 center Cory Ward, 23. Both rookies had 23a). Garret Sparks (15-7-0, 2.20) is 1-1-0 vs. Syracuse. 3 Fri. HERSHEY 7 p.m. spent all of this season with the Manchester Monarchs, Antoine Bibeau (9-10-4, 2.85) is 0-1-1 with a 4.98 G.A.A. 4 Sat. BINGHAMTON 7 p.m. leaders of the ECHL's North Division. against the Crunch. 5 Sun. at Binghamton 5:05 p.m. Morris, a native of Massena, New York, played the last The Amerks host Utica Wednesday before playing 8 Wed. ST. JOHN’S 7 p.m. 10 Fri. SPRINGFIELD 7 p.m. four seasons at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He set a a home-and-home vs. Syracuse Friday and Saturday. 11 Sat. ST. JOHN’S 7 p.m. career high in goals (8) and points (16) as a senior and was Rochester, last in the North at 21-29-0-2 (.423), had lost 15 Wed. at Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. an Academic All-Conference selection. He has 25 points four straight when it beat Binghamton Sunday, 3-2. The 17 Fri. at Utica 7 p.m. (12g, 13a) in 48 ECHL games this year. Kevin's father Crunch have won six of eight meetings with Rochester (6- 18 Sat. ALBANY 7 p.m. Mark Morris is head coach at St. Lawrence University and 1-0-1), including the last matchup, 5-2, Feb. 11. 24 Fri. W-B/SCRANTON 7 p.m. coached AHL-Manchester from 2006 to 2014. Cole Schneider leads the team at 44 points (18g, 26a), 25 Sat. UTICA 7 p.m. Ward, from Las Vegas, spent four seasons at Bemidji eighth in the AHL. Six points have come vs. Syracuse. 26 Sun. at Toronto 5 p.m. State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. He played 151 Cory Conacher and Matt Taormina each have 11 points 29 Wed. at Binghamton 7:05 p.m. games for the Beavers totaling 80 points (45g, 35a). He vs. Rochester while Adam Erne has six goals in the series. 31 Fri. TORONTO 7 p.m. North Division GP W L OTL SOL PTS PCT GF GA PIM HOME ROAD LAST 10 STREAK S/O APRIL (7 games – 4 home, 3 road) 1. Syracuse 52 26 17 4 5 61 0.587 156 157 915 15-6-1-2 11-11-3-3 5-5-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-5 1 Sat. TORONTO 7 p.m. 2. Albany 55 30 23 1 1 62 0.564 154 150 916 17-10-1-0 13-13-0-1 4-6-0-0 0-2-0-0 2-1 5 Wed. at Albany 7 p.m. 3. Toronto 53 27 22 3 1 58 0.547 164 145 771 16-8-2-0 11-14-1-1 7-2-1-0 3-0-0-0 1-1 7 Fri. at Binghamton 7:05 p.m. 4. St. John's 54 24 23 6 1 55 0.509 154 167 893 11-12-3-0 13-11-3-1 4-5-1-0 0-1-0-0 3-1 8 Sat. ALBANY 7 p.m. 12 Wed. at Utica 7 p.m. 5. Utica 52 21 23 6 2 50 0.481 134 156 635 9-12-4-1 12-11-2-1 3-6-0-1 1-0-0-0 0-2 14 Fri. BINGHAMTON 7 p.m. 6. Binghamton 53 23 27 2 1 49 0.462 137 171 570 13-13-1-0 10-14-1-1 5-5-0-0 0-2-0-0 2-1 15 Sat. UTICA 7 p.m. 7. Rochester 52 21 29 0 2 44 0.423 141 170 594 10-12-0-2 11-17-0-0 3-6-0-1 1-0-0-0 1-2 • Stats

2016-17 Regular Season Individual Player Statistics 2016-17 AHL Regular Season No Skater Pos GP G A TP +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GW FG IG OT UA EN SOG SOA SOGW SO% Pt/G PIM/G Shots Sh% 20 Matt Taormina D 47 13 30 43 6 16 7 16 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.91 0.34 123 10.6 89 Cory Conacher RW 41 10 32 42 6 70 4 15 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 1 3 5 1 60.0 1.02 1.71 106 9.4 37 Yanni Gourde LW 50 18 21 39 7 52 3 0 4 1 5 2 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 0.0 0.78 1.04 115 15.7 71 Tanner Richard C 39 12 15 27 0 39 2 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 25.0 0.69 1.00 68 17.6 11 Erik Condra RW 32 7 20 27 8 24 2 5 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.84 0.75 65 10.8 73 Adam Erne LW 36 13 12 25 -7 42 5 6 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0.0 0.69 1.17 77 16.9 28 Mike Halmo LW 47 14 8 22 -5 64 2 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0.0 0.47 1.36 98 14.3 22 Matthew Peca C 45 6 16 22 -3 10 2 8 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0.0 0.49 0.22 74 8.1 92 Joel Vermin RW 33 11 10 21 0 8 4 3 1 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0.0 0.64 0.24 73 15.1 61 Jeremy Morin RW 43 9 12 21 -4 22 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0.0 0.49 0.51 77 11.7 44 Adam Comrie D 33 7 6 13 -2 13 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.39 0.39 55 12.7 78 Michael Bournival LW 28 5 8 13 11 14 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.46 0.50 54 9.3 X 4 Jake Dotchin D 33 3 9 12 10 77 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.36 2.33 54 5.6 85 Daniel Walcott D 46 2 9 11 -10 55 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.24 1.20 53 3.8 * 26 Ben Thomas D 47 2 9 11 -8 20 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.23 0.43 46 4.3 X 40 Gabriel Dumont C 19 5 5 10 4 24 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0.0 0.53 1.26 47 10.6 57 Henri Ikonen LW 36 2 7 9 5 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.25 0.42 33 6.1 65 Slater Koekkoek D 26 1 7 8 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.31 0.31 44 2.3 X 39 Brian Hart RW 33 3 4 7 0 26 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.21 0.79 50 6.0 X 19 Cameron Darcy C 34 3 4 7 -3 14 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.21 0.41 40 7.5 25 Mathieu Brodeur D 32 2 5 7 12 38 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.22 1.19 34 5.9 6 Dylan Blujus D 10 1 4 5 4 10 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.50 1.00 22 4.5 34 P-L Letourneau-Leblond LW 35 1 4 5 -12 102 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.14 2.91 21 4.8 X 82 Luke Witkowski D 19 0 5 5 5 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.26 3.11 24 0.0 * 5 Dominik Masin D 47 2 2 4 -2 35 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.09 0.74 37 5.4 3 Jonathan Racine (total) D 35 0 3 3 1 75 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.09 2.14 20 0.0 STJ D 26 0 3 3 2 58 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.12 2.23 14 0.0 SYR D 9 0 0 0 -1 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.00 1.89 6 0.0 X 12 David Pacan RW 6 0 2 2 -2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.33 0.00 4 0.0 16 Tye McGinn LW 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.50 1.00 5 20.0 15 Kevin Lynch C 13 1 0 1 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.08 0.15 12 8.3 X 14 Brandon Alderson (total) RW 11 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.09 0.36 11 0.0 HFD RW 3 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.33 0.67 3 0.0 SYR RW 8 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.00 0.25 8 0.0 50 Kristers Gudlevskis G 27 0 1 1 0 17 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.04 0.63 0 0.0 X 23 Olivier Labelle RW 6 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 0.67 3 0.0 32 Adam Wilcox G 32 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 0.13 0 0.0 BENCH 52 2 10 2 TOTALS 52 156 267 421 16 915 38 74 10 9 24 26 14 2 8 6 4 20 2 20.0 0.42 0.91 1530 10.1

2016-17 AHL Regular Season No Goalie GP Mins W L SL SO EN GA GAA SOGP SOW SL SOGA SOA SO% SA SVS SV% 50 Kristers Gudlevskis 27 1423:01 9 8 6 0 4 65 2.74 5 2 3 6 15 0.600 599 534 0.891 32 Adam Wilcox 32 1721:32 17 9 3 1 1 82 2.86 2 0 2 3 4 0.250 787 705 0.896 Empty Net 26:17 5 5 Totals 59 3170:50 26 17 9 1 5 152 2.88 7 2 5 9 19 0.526 1391 1239 0.891