FISHERS- The Fuel hosted the Fort Wayne Komets on Wednesday night. After a high-scoring first period, the teams headed to overtime tied 3-3. Ultimately, Fort Wayne claimed the 4-3 win after an overtime game winner.
1ST PERIOD
The Fuel got to work quickly with a goal by Cam Hausinger at 1:03. That goal was assisted by Chris Cameron and Nathan Burke.
The Komets evened the score at 3:09 with a goal by Nolan Volcan. Indy’s Nick Grima took an interference penalty one minute later, putting the Fuel on the penalty kill.
After Indy killed off that penalty, Ethan Manderville scored his second goal of the season to give the Fuel a 2-1 lead. Chris Cameron claimed his second assist of the night on that goal, along with Matus Spodniak.
At 9:22, Ty Farmer scored to give the Fuel a 3-1 lead. Colin Bilek and Lucas Brenton had the assists on that goal.
The Fuel got their first power play of the game at 15:16 as Cameron Supryka sat for tripping. Fort Wayne killed it off.
With about a minute to go in the first period, Brandon McManus scored to make it 3-2.
At the end of the first period, Indy had outshot Fort Wayne 8-5 while leading them 3-2.
2ND PERIOD
Matus Spodniak took a tripping penalty at 15:21 to give Fort Wayne a power play opportunity, however the Fuel killed it off.
At 18:26, Ethan Keppen scored to tie it 3-3.
After two periods, Fort Wayne was outshooting Indy 13-11.
3RD PERIOD
While things got progressively chippier between the two teams who tallied over 150 penalty minutes the last time they met, there were no third period penalties.
Additionally, neither team scored in the third period.
Fort Wayne outshot Indy 9-3 in the final frame, holding more momentum heading into the overtime period.
OVERTIME
For the second game in a row in net, goaltender Cam Gray took the Fuel to overtime.
At 2:01, Indy’s Bryan Lemos took a hooking penalty, forcing two minutes of a 4-on-3 advantage for the Komets.
The Fuel killed off that penalty before Keppen scored his second goal of the game on a breakaway to win it for the Komets at 5:18.
The Komets outshot Indy 25-16 while claiming the 4-3 overtime win.
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