The Syracuse Crunch won the North Division Semifinal series tonight, 2-1 in OT on Gabriel Dumont‘s goal and advanced to Round 2 of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
Dumont scored 2:18 into overtime.
[protected-iframe id=”dca37df2a39a3c1124a393e47d5de780-114320562-46289989″ info=”hash” class=”twitter-video”]The Crunch won the best-of-5 series three games to one and will host the first two games of the best-of-7 next round Friday and Saturday versus Toronto.
Mike McKenna was brilliant in goal for the Crunch, making 26 saves.
Erik Condra scored the only goal of the first period, on a power play assisted by Tye McGinn at 16:41.
The Crunch won their first playoff series since the 2012-13 season, when they reached the Calder Cup finals.
Three down, 12 to go.
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