This past weekend’s mass hysteria involving the Syracuse Crunch and the rest of the North Division perfectly embodied the season as a whole for Benoit Groulx’s squad. Heading in to their two-game homestand against the Binghamton Senators and Utica Comets, the Crunch seemed locked into the #2 seed, which would see them taking on the Albany Devils in the first round of play.
Fast-forward 48 hours, and every single scenario that had to come to fruition for Syracuse to snag the division title and secure home ice through the first two rounds, somehow did.
With one banner clinched and set to be raised in to the War Memorial rafters next October, the Crunch now set their focus on erasing the rest of the eastern conference to hang another beside it.