{"id":667555,"date":"2017-05-10T22:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=667555"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:44:26","slug":"marlies-even-the-series-beat-crunch-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/marlies-even-the-series-beat-crunch-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlies Even The Series, Beat Crunch 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Toronto Marlies evened the best-of-seven series at two games each as they beat the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 in Toronto, Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Adam Erne<\/a> and Ben Thomas<\/a> scored for the Crunch. Erne is on a five-game points streak (2g, 3a). It was Thomas’ first professional post-season goal.<\/p>\n A strong start by the Marlies was the difference in the game.<\/p>\n Erne gave the Crunch the lead at 4:45 of the first period when a Toronto defenseman turned the puck over. The Marlies quickly drew even on Rich Clune<\/a>‘s first goal of the playoffs.<\/p>\n Toronto scored twice on the power play in the first period when Kerby Rychel<\/a> and Trevor Moore beat goalie Mike McKenna<\/a> to give Toronto the 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n McKenna gave up three goals in 33 seconds late in the third of the 5-3 loss in Game 3 on Tuesday night and surrendered three on 16 shots tonight before being pulled in favor of backup Kristers Gudlevskis<\/a> to start the second period.<\/p>\n Ben Thomas cut into the Toronto lead when he fired a point blast that had eyes and found the top corner over goalie Kasimir Kaskisuo shoulder.<\/p>\n The Crunch only had 19 shots.\u00a0Kaskisuo<\/a> (4-1) made 17 saves.<\/p>\n Game five moves to the War Memorial Arena for Game 5 on Saturday.<\/p>\nBoxscore<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n