FORT WAYNE- The Indy Fuel faced off with the Fort Wayne Komets on Saturday night, in between two home games. After a four-goal second period for the Fuel, the Komets could not come back. Indy won 6-2 over the Komets in Fort Wayne.

1ST PERIOD

The Fuel hit the game sheet first when they took a too many men penalty at 3:43. Cody Laskosky served it but Indy killed it off regardless.

The game’s next penalty went to the Komets as Cole Hults sat for slashing at 6:21. Fort Wayne killed it off. 

At 12:32, Chase Dafoe took a penalty for holding while Fort Wayne’s Jack Matier went alongside him for embellishment. One minute and one second later, Laskosky joined Dafoe in Indy’s penalty box when he served the team’s second too many men penalty. 

Despite being shorthanded, Anthony Petruzzelli scored for Indy against his longtime former team. With the help of Dafoe, he put the Fuel up 1-0 at 14:39. 

At 18:00 exactly, Tommy Budnick and Fort Wayne’s Jack Gorniak took offsetting slashing penalties that were killed off as time expired on the period. 

After one, the Fuel were outshooting the Komets, 13-12.

2ND PERIOD

At 2:51, Indy earned a power play chance when John Gormley was sent to the penalty box for cross checking. That penalty was killed off. 

Dustin Manz added to the Fuel’s lead with a goal assisted by Kyle Aucoin and Mike Brown at 5:59. 

21 seconds later, the Fuel went back on the penalty kill after Lachlan Getz took a holding penalty. 

Hults cut Fort Wayne’s lead in half when he scored for the Komets at 11:11. Exactly 40 seconds later, Manz scored his second of the game for Indy to put them back up by two. 

At 14:09, Getz went back to the box for a roughing minor along with Alex Aleardi, the Fort Wayne captain. Aleardi was given a double minor, however. 

Laskosky scored on the power play with the help of Mitchell Hoelscher and Budnick at 15:14. In the same second, Brady Stonehouse took a cross checking penalty to continue the power play for the Fuel. 

At 17:57, a fight broke out that landed Jadon Joseph and Fort Wayne’s Arnaud Durandeau with ten minute misconduct penalties for continuing an altercation. The Fuel got two minutes on the power play though, due to Drake Rymsha also taking a cross checking minor. 

Laskosky capitalized on the power play with his second consecutive goal at 19:48. Matt Petgrave and Mitchell Hoelscher claimed the assists.

Indy went to the locker room up 5-1, outshooting the Komets, 24-20. 

3RD PERIOD

Indy went up 6-1 when Hoelscher scored at 1:57. Aucoin and Laskosky claimed the assists. 

At 6:50, Jesse Tucker was sent to the box for slashing. After that was killed off, Getz returned to the penalty box at 12:25 for holding. Less than twenty seconds later, Jonny Tychonick was sent to the box for boarding. 

Rymsha joined Tychonick in Fort Wayne’s penalty box at 13:49 when he took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. 

Indy’s Kyler Kupka took an interference call at 14:10. Just 13 seconds later, Hunter Johannes scored for the Komets to make the score 6-2. 

At 16:42, Getz and Tychonick exchanged ten minute misconduct penalties for continuing an altercation while Fort Wayne’s Nathan Dunkley was given a two-minute minor penalty for goaltender interference. This put the Fuel on the power play again. 

They did not score again but neither did the Komets before time expired and Indy claimed the 6-2 victory. They outshot Fort Wayne, 33-29 through three. 

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