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Saturday, April 13, 2013  Syracuse Crunch right wing Brett Connolly tallied a hat trick on Saturday night, as the Syracuse Crunch pounded the Rochester Americans 5-1.

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.

Friday, March 01, 2013  The Syracuse Crunch had their 7-game winning streak snapped on Friday night, as the Albany Devils scored three goals in the final period to defeat the Crunch 3-1.

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, January 18, 2013  The Crunch suffered a 4-1 loss at the hands of the Rochester Americans tonight at the Blue Cross Arena.

Saturday, October 13, 2012  The Crunch scored four unanswered goals to overcome a three goal deficit before ultimately falling to Rochester Americans 6-5 in a shootout.

Friday, April 13, 2012  Crunch fall to eight place in the Eastern Conference, now sit one point behind seventh place Portland and one point ahead of ninth place Manchester, with two regular season games remaining.

Saturday, March 24, 2012  The Crunch had their six-game winning streak snapped by a 4-3 shootout loss to the Rochester Americans tonight at the War Memorial Arena.

Friday, March 16, 2012  Nick Schaus’ third period goal gave the Crunch a 4-3 victory over their I-90 rivals the Rochester Americans.

Friday, January 27, 2012  Iiro Tarkki recorded a shutout as the Syracuse Crunch defeated the Rochester Americans 4-0.

Sunday, November 06, 2011  Despite a four point night from Crunch right wing Dan Sexton the Crunch suffered a 6-5 overtime loss to the Rochester Americans tonight at the Blue Cross Arena.

Sunday, November 06, 2011  The Syracuse Crunch scored four power-play goals and killed all five Rochester penalties en route to a 5-2 victory over the Americans Saturday night at the War Memorial.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011  A person familiar with negotiations has told The Associated Press that the Buffalo Sabres have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to purchase the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League.

Saturday, March 26, 2011  Kyle Palmieri tallied twice and added an assist, Patrick Maroon contributed a goal and two assists and Maxime Macenauer chipped in two goals, as the Syracuse Crunch defeated rival Rochester 6-4 in front of a sellout crowd of 6,198 fans tonight at The Oncenter War Memorial Arena.

Sunday, February 27, 2011  The Syracuse Crunch racked up 41 shots on goal, but were only able to solve goaltender Tyler Plante once, falling to the rival Rochester Americans by a 2-1 score in overtime this afternoon at the Blue Cross Arena.