Team: Syracuse Crunch (24-7-2-3), AHL affiliate for the Tampa Bay Lightning
Opponent: Rochester Americans (18-14-2-1), AHL affiliate for the Buffalo Sabres
Where: Oncenter War Memorial Arena, Syracuse, New York
When: 7:30 pm ET
Media: Live stream via AHL Live; Radio: The Score 1260 AM
First off….
Set your DVRs… @syracusecrunch & @amerkshockey live on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel at 7:30 p.m. Ch. 813 in #Syracuse, Ch. 98 in Roch.
— Dan D’Uva (@Dan_DUva) January 12, 2013
And if you missed this from last night….
Here come the moves. Hutchings and Landry called up from Fla. Aulie’s held out pending recall.
— PS Syracuse Crunch (@PSCrunchHockey) January 12, 2013
Assuming deal approved by NHLPA, Labrie, Oberg, Taormina, Angelidis cant play here again till they clear waivers
— PS Syracuse Crunch (@PSCrunchHockey) January 12, 2013
Taormina, Labrie, Angelidis, Conacher, Aulie going to TB. Oberg is not yet, but cant play tomorrow
— PS Syracuse Crunch (@PSCrunchHockey) January 12, 2013
BriseBois said more players going up after tomorrows game. Wouldnt say who or how many.
— PS Syracuse Crunch (@PSCrunchHockey) January 12, 2013
For the first time this season, the Crunch are facing the usual NHL call-up conundrum. For almost the entire first half of this season, they’ve had a stable team, and that’s almost unheard of in the AHL. So, for them, this is going back to normal.
Rumor has it that the Lightning only have two roster spots open at forward, so we should see all but two forwards and Aulie – who was already counted as a regular on the Tampa Bay roster – to be returned to Syracuse by the time they play again next Friday. Unless, of course, some trading happens between now and then – which is always possible.
Finally, here are the highlights from the game last night.
(Photo by Scott Thomas of Scott Thomas Photography and used with his permission. )
