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K s lose to Nailers in game capped by fracas
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
About the closest thing you’ll find to a certainty in the ECHL is the Komets beating the Wheeling Nailers when they play at Memorial Coliseum.
But tonight was the exception to the rule. The Nailers got a 4-3 victory over the Komets, who have won 20 of the last 24 games between the teams here.
The waning seconds saw Wheeling’s Austin Fyten knee the Komets’ Anthony Petruzzelli, setting off a melee and likely putting him in the crosshairs of ECHL discipline. The Wheeling players then engaged in a shouting match with Fort Wayne fans and the Nailers’ Chad Duchesne swiped at a fan with his stick.
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.
Watch me, how I play : Petruzzelli leads K s to 3-1 victory
Rookie Cooper, new goalie Gorsuch also shine at Coliseum
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
Anthony Petruzzelli has been one of the Komets’ most consistent scorers this season – he has nine goals and 25 points in 34 games – but he took his game to another level Friday night.
Not just in scoring, but also in leading.
Petruzzelli fought Joshua Winquist – it was only the second fight of Petruzzelli’s 167-game pro career – and he netted the game-winner as the Komets defeated the Wheeling Nailers 3-1 on Friday night at Memorial Coliseum.