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Wednesday, May 15, 2013  The Syracuse Crunch playoff push is in full swing, and who better to get a progess report from, than the team's owner?

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  The Hershey Bears bid for an upset of top-seeded Providence fell short, and now the Syracuse Crunch will start its semifinal series on the road. As a result of Wednesday night's games, the Crunch as the three seed now meets the two-seed Springfield in the semi's.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013  It's playoff time here in Syracuse! As the Crunch earned the #3 seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013  Rob Zettler was officially named as the head coach of the Crunch on Monday night, after Syracuse’s Jon Cooper was pulled up to lead the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  The Syracuse Crunch lost for the third straight game, and for the second time on its current road trip.

Saturday, March 02, 2013  After winning seven games in a row, the Syracuse Crunch lost their second game in a row in overtime to the Rochester Americans on Saturday night.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013  The Crunch, which is comprised mostly of players that won the Calder Cup with Norfolk last season, has now won 8 straight games.

Friday, February 15, 2013  JT Wyman scored a hat trick as the Syracuse Crunch dominated the Binghamton Senators 7-1 tonight at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Thursday, February 07, 2013  Both players told a group of fifth graders at Bellevue Elementary School that they were affected by bullying when they were young kids, and are hoping to get the message across that bullying needs to be stopped.

Friday, February 01, 2013  Despite scoring three power-play goals the Syracuse Crunch fell 5-3 to the Springfield Falcons tonight at the MassMutual Center.

Friday, January 25, 2013  Syracuse Crunch suffered a 1-0 shootout loss to East Division rivals the Binghamton Senators tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013  Four Syracuse Crunch players will be joining their head coach Jon Cooper at this year's AHL All-Star game

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  You could say Vlad Namestnikov has Crunch in his blood. His father John was a star on Syracuse's AHL team from 1994 to 1997, back when Vlad was just a toddler running around the halls on the War Memorial Arena

Friday, January 11, 2013  Crunch shooters JT Wyman, Ondrej Palat, Jared Nightingale and Richard Panik scored in the tie-breaking drill, while Crunch netminder Dustin Tokarski stopped two of four Norfolk shooters to improve the club's record to 24-7-2-3 overall and 8-4-2-1 at home.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013  Syracuse Crunch captain Mike Angelidis tallied twice as the Syracuse Crunch defeated the Rochester Americans 5-3 tonight at the Blue Cross Arena.