FISHERS- The Indy Fuel hosted the Cincinnati Cyclones for their second game of the season on Saturday night. After three goals were scored in the last half of the third period, Cincinnati ultimately claimed the 4-3 victory on Saturday night. 

1ST PERIOD

Just two minutes into the game, Jesse Tucker dropped the gloves with Cincinnati’s Kurtis Henry. They each earned five minutes for fighting at 1:59. 

At 5:26, Matt Anderson scored for Cincinnati with the help of Ryan Kirwan and former Fuel forward, Sahil Panwar. 

About two minutes later, Indy’s Mitchell Hoelscher was sent to the penalty box for tripping. It was killed off at 9:22. 

At 15:21, Harrison Israels took a high sticking penalty which put the Fuel back on the penalty kill but the Cyclones could not score. 

Panwar picked up his second point of the game with a goal at 19:08. This put the Cyclones up 2-0 before the period ended. Cincy was outshooting Indy, 11-6.

2ND PERIOD

Cody Laskosky opened the scoring in the second period with a goal at 1:57 to cut Cincinnati’s lead in half. He was assisted by Owen Robinson and Mitchell Hoelscher.

At 9:29, Robinson and Hoelscher headed to the box for two minutes for roughing along with Cincy’s Matt Copponi. This put the Cyclones on the power play. 

Jackson Kunz quickly capitalized with a goal at 10:58 to make it 3-1 in favor of the Cyclones. Matt Anderson picked up his second point of the night with the primary assist on that goal.

Robinson went back to the box for tripping at 17:36 but the Fuel were able to kill that penalty off before the period ended. 

After two frames, the Cyclones were outshooting the Fuel, 24-9.

3RD PERIOD

At 4:24, Tommy Budnick took a holding penalty. This gave Cincinnati their first power play of the period, but Indy killed it off.

Immediately after, Kunz took an interference penalty. This gave the Fuel their first power play of the game at 6:27 in the third period. The Cyclones killed it off without Indy recording a shot.

Things got chippy between both teams and Indy ended up with another power play chance when Max Smolinski was sent to the box for elbowing at 10:05. The Fuel did not score on that power play.

Laskosky scored his second goal of the game with 6:01 to go in regulation. With the help of Lachlan Getz and Chase Dafoe, this made it 3-2 with Cincinnati still in the lead. 

With under three minutes to go, Indy pulled Gale from goal in favor of the extra skater. Ryan Kirwan, however, scored on the empty net to make it 4-2 Cyclones. 

The Fuel took a timeout with 1:12 left, pulling Gale from goal once more. Hoelscher was able to score for Indy with the man-advantage that time, bringing the score to 4-3. Jacob Perreault tallied his first point for the Fuel with the primary assist along with Matt Petgrave, who claimed the other.

Despite putting pressure on in the final minute, Indy could not score again. While being outshot, 33-18, Indy fell to the Cyclones 4-3.

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