FISHERS- The Indy Fuel hosted the Fort Wayne Komets for the second night in a row for Game 4 of the first round of the Kelly Cup Playoffs. After a huge 6-4 victory at home on Tuesday night, the Fuel could not make the comeback and fell 3-2 to the Komets. 

1ST PERIOD

The Fuel earned the first power play of the game at 9:23 when the Komets’ Logan Nelson served a bench minor penalty for too many men on the ice. 

That didn’t last long as Indy’s Owen Robinson took an interference penalty less than a minute later. Both penalties were killed off. 

At 13:05, Reid Pabich took a tripping penalty. This put the Fuel back on the power play but it was killed off. 

Cody Laskosky took the game’s next penalty at 17:46. The Komets capitalized on the power play with the first goal of the game at 19:05 when Austin Magera put them up 1-0. 

Indy outshot the Komets 10-8, despite ending the period down by one goal. 

2ND PERIOD

Former Fuel defenseman Tyson Feist took a holding penalty at 4:21, putting Indy on an early power play. It was killed off.

Indy took back-to-back penalties, starting at 7:04 when Christian Berger took a hooking call. Less than two minutes later, Jadon Joseph was called for slashing. 

At 10:07, Fort Wayne’s Matt Miller scored on the power play, putting them up 2-0. 

Cody Laskosky put Indy on the board at 14:28 when he scored with the help of Marcus Joughin and Trevor Zins. 

Less than a minute later, Fuel captain Chris Cameron took a hooking penalty but Indy was able to kill it off. 

At the end of the second frame, the Komets were up 2-1 while shots were tied even at 17-17.

3RD PERIOD

The Fuel killed off the first penalty of the third period which was given to Matt Petgrave for slashing at 1:34. 

Right after he left the box, Fort Wayne’s Reid Pabich scored their third goal of the game to make it 3-1.

Cameron took another penalty at 11:17, putting Fort Wayne back on the power play. He was called for interference. Ultimately Indy killed it off.

Fort Wayne’s Brady Stonehouse took another interference call soon after. Indy could not score.

With about three minutes left, the Fuel pulled Owen Flores from net in favor of the extra attacker. It paid off as Tyler Weiss scored to bring Indy’s deficit to 3-2. Laskosky and Joughin had the assists.

Despite putting heavy pressure on the Komets in the last minute, Indy could not make the comeback. 

The Komets outshot Indy 30-22 while defeating them 3-2.

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