CINCINNATI- The Indy Fuel visited the Cincinnati Cyclones on Friday night, facing them for the fifth time already in this young season. After going up 3-0, the Fuel gave up three goals to Cincy, tying the game before ultimately defeating the home team, 5-3.

1ST PERIOD

Fuel defenseman Matt Petgrave took the game’s first penalty at 6:14 for hooking, but the Fuel were able to kill it off. 

Owen Robinson scored his second goal of the season to put the Fuel up 1-0 at 12:11 in the first period. This goal was unassisted. 

Despite being down by one goal, Cincinnati outshot the Fuel 13-9 in the first frame.

2ND PERIOD

Just 59 seconds into the second period, Chase Dafoe and Cincy’s Kurtis Henry took offsetting five minute major penalties for fighting. 

At 2:27, Anthony Petruzzelli scored his second goal of the season with the help of Jadon Joseph and Jackson DeSouza. That would be DeSouza’s first point for the Fuel and in the ECHL. 

Dean Loukus took a tripping penalty at 3:47 to put the Fuel on the penalty kill and they were successful. 

At 6:45, Mike Brown and Cincinnati’s Matt Hellickson each took two minute minor penalties for roughing and slashing respectively. Both of those penalties were killed off. 

Frank Djurasevic took a holding call at 17:27 to put the Fuel on the power play, however that lasted just eleven seconds before Indy’s Cody Laskosky was sent to the penalty box for slashing.

It became 4-on-3 at 18:21 when Hellickson joined Djurasevic in the box for holding. All of that led to a goal by Jacob Perreault at 18:41 on the power play. Mitchell Hoelscher and Paul Ludwinski had the assists on that goal to put the Fuel up 3-0. 

Indy massively outshot the Cyclones, 14-4 in that period for a total of 23-17 in the game up to that point. 

3RD PERIOD

At 2:07, DeSouza took a holding penalty, putting the Cyclones on the power play but it was killed off. 

Cincinnati’s Nathan Burke, the former Fuel defenseman, scored to break the shutout at 7:57. Jadon Joseph and Djurasevic exchanged blows and took offsetting roughing penalties at 8:20 next. 

Max Smolinski scored at 8:52 to cut the Fuel’s lead in half and bring the score to 3-2. Adam Kydd tacked on another at 11:47 to tie the game before Indy called a timeout. 

Ross Mitton was called for boarding at 15:23, giving the Fuel a crucial power play chance. Perreault was able to capitalize on it with a power play goal assisted by Kyler Kupka and Hoelscher. This put Indy up 4-3 at 17:16. 

The Cyclones pulled their goaltender from the net in favor of the extra attacker, but it did not work as Dustin Manz tacked on an empty net goal to give Indy the 5-3 win after outshooting the Cyclones 37-26. 

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