Petruzzelli, Gorsuch lead K's past Nailers
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
The Wheeling Nailers probably don’t like playing at Memorial Coliseum very much.
Tonight typified why that is.
The Nailers had a bevy of great scoring chances, only to run into a hot goaltender, Trevor Gorsuch, in his Komets debut, and Fort Wayne won 3-1.
Gorsuch stopped 20 of 21 shots. Wheeling’s Shane Starrett stopped 25 of 28.
Fort Wayne has won 20 of the last 23 games between the teams at the Coliseum, including 7 of 9 this season.
Fort Wayne’s Oliver Cooper, in his eighth game out of the University of New Brunswick, was hitting everyone he could. And when he drove Wheeling defenseman Matt Miller into the boards behind the net, it set up Cooper to deliver a pass in front to Anthony Petruzzelli for a goal and a 2-1 lead 5:18 into the third period.