FISHERS- The Indy Fuel hosted the Kalamazoo Wings for the first time this season on Saturday night. Ultimately, the K-Wings claimed a 3-2 OT victory after coming back to tie it in the third period.
1ST PERIOD
Kalamazoo’s Cooper Walker took the game’s first penalty at 2:30 for hooking. This put Indy on an early power play. While they put pressure on, they could not score.
Indy earned another power play chance when Spencer Kennedy was sent to the penalty box for interference at 8:55. That penalty was also quickly killed off.
Both teams had a lot of good chances during the remainder of the first period but neither team scored. After one frame, shots were tied, 6-6.
2ND PERIOD
Chase Dafoe opened the scoring at 6:21 in the second period with the help of Cody Laskosky. This put the Fuel up 1-0, but things started getting chippy between these two divisional opponents.
At 17:36, Indy’s Tommy Budnick took a holding penalty. This put the K-Wings on the power play, however the Fuel killed it off right before a fight broke out in front of Indy’s net. There were no penalties as a result.
It was only thirty seconds until the end of the period and the fighting continued after time expired too. Only Kalamazoo’s Walker earned a roughing penalty that would be served at the start of the third period.
After two frames, Indy was up by one shot and one goal.
3RD PERIOD
The Fuel started the period on the power play, but the K-Wings killed off the roughing minor from the second period.
24 seconds after that, Kalamazoo’s Noel Edfeldt tied things up with a rebound goal. Just eleven seconds after that, however, Jadon Joseph gave Indy their lead back with a goal assisted by Dustin Manz.
Tyler Gratton scored for the K-Wings at 7:34 to tie the game again, this time at 2-2.
Neither team was able to score again before time expired in regulation. This forced another overtime game for the Fuel in their early season.
OVERTIME
28 seconds into the 3-on-3 overtime period, Kalamazoo’s Ryan Cox scored the game-winning goal to claim the victory 3-2 for the K-Wings on Saturday night.
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