FISHERS- The Indy Fuel hosted the Cincinnati Cyclones on Sunday afternoon once again this season. After forcing overtime, the Cyclones claimed a 3-2 victory over Indy on Sunday evening.

1ST PERIOD

Indy defenseman Matt Petgrave took the first penalty of the game. He was sent to the penalty box for high sticking at 12:34. After that whistle, there was a lot of extracurricular activity between these two teams that have already met five times in this young season. That penalty was killed off.

Jackson DeSouza scored his first goal of the season and first professional American goal at 17:57. Dean Loukus and Kyler Kupka recorded the assists on that goal. 

Cincy’s Matt Copponi took an interference call at 18:05. The Fuel could not score again with the remainder of the period so that penalty would carry over. 

After one period, Indy was up 1-0 despite being outshot 15-8.

2ND PERIOD

With five seconds on the clock, the Cyclones killed off the rest of that interference penalty. 

At 11:21, Alexander Burmistrov scored to tie things up for the Cyclones. 

It was Burmistrov who headed to the penalty box next after taking a roughing minor at 13:36. This put the Fuel on the power play once more and Jacob Perreault capitalized to give Indy their lead back at 14:39. Kupka and Mitchell Hoelscher had the assists on that goal. 

Tommy Budnick took a high sticking minor penalty at 15:11, putting the Cyclones back on the power play once more. The Fuel were able to kill off that penalty before time expired in the second period. 

Through two frames, the Cyclones were outshooting the Fuel 25-14. 

3RD PERIOD

The Cyclones were held shotless for nearly ten minutes before they earned a power play at 9:52 when Indy’s Budnick was called for cross checking. Forty seconds later, Chase Dafoe joined him in the box when he was called for high sticking. 

Cincy called a timeout before beginning their minute and twenty seconds on the 5-on-3 power play. Former Fuel forward Nathan Burke scored on the power play to tie the game again. The remainder of the penalty on Dafoe was killed off.  

After a few good chances from both teams, time expired in regulation and the Fuel headed to their fourth overtime game of the season.

Through three periods, Cincinnati outshot Indy 29-20. 

OVERTIME 

Indy outshot Cincinnati 2-1 in the OT period but the Cyclones’ Sahil Panwar scored at 3:28 of the overtime period to end the game and give Cincinnati the additional point in the standings. 

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