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Friday, March 08, 2013  The Syracuse Crunch is back on track. The Crunch, on the heels of a four game losing streak won at The Rock (St. John's New Foundland) on Friday 3-2 in a shootout.

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.

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.

Monday, December 31, 2012  Richard Panik scored twice as the Syracuse Crunch defeated the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 2-1 tonight at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

Saturday, December 29, 2012  The Syracuse Crunch allowed five unanswered goals by the St. John's IceCaps, falling 5-4 in overtime tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Friday, December 28, 2012  The Syracuse Crunch scored a season-high three power-play goals to defeat the Norfolk Admirals 4-2 tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Thursday, December 27, 2012  It will be one of the more surreal hockey games many of the Syracuse Crunch have ever played in on Friday night.

Sunday, February 26, 2012  The Crunch scored the game’s final three goals but fell to the Adirondack Phantoms 4-3 tonight at the Glens Falls Civic Center.

Friday, January 06, 2012  The Syracuse Crunch dropped a 5-2 decision to the Hamilton Bulldogs tonight at the Copps Coliseum.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011  The Syracuse Crunch fell to the Adirondack Phantoms by a score of 4-3 Wednesday night at the Glens Falls Civic Center.

Thursday, July 21, 2011  The former first round draft pick says he plans on picking up right where he left off last season.