The Komets won their sixth consecutive game overall and sixth in a row on the road Friday night, 4-1 over Bloomington. They'll try to stretch both streaks to seven at Flint tonight before hosting the Generals on Sunday.
P.C. Drouin scored a goal and two assists and Nick Boucher made 26 saves for the Komets, including stopping a penalty shot in the second period against Bloomington's Bill Bagron. Boucher had turned the puck over and in the ensuing scramble threw his stick at the puck. The Komets were leading 2-0 at the time.
“We just missed a goal at the other end, and then we mishandled the puck,'' Komets coach Al Sims said. “Then he missed the net on the penalty shot. It was a pretty big moment.”
The Komets also got goals from Guy Dupuis, Bobby Phillips and Matt Syroczynski.
Fort Wayne allowed only five shots on goal in the second period and out-shot the PrairieThunder 28-27 in the game.
“We played really well in the neutral zone and slowed them down,” Sims said. “They had trouble getting to the red line and into our end with any speed.”
Leading goal-scorer Leo Thomas returned to the Fort Wayne lineup after missing Wednesday's game with a sore knee, but Konstantin Shafranov missed the game with the flu. Komets General Manager David Franke also said Friday the team would like to hold David Hukalo out of the lineup until Wednesday's home game against Bloomington if possible. Hukalo is on injured reserve with torn back muscles but is just about ready to play.
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7:33 LEFT IN THE GAME...
Psych.
Woodard to the sin bin... Flint on the PP
K's kill off the penalty... About 2:31 left
Sounds like we should be posting under a different title. Komets dont sound very red hot at this point
empty net for the K's... Under 1 minute to go
Flint gets the empty net goal....
They got their arses handed to them by the team they own. The JV beat the Varsity tonight. Good Stuff.
Pathetic game...
Very disappointed in Syro...the dude is 6 5...stand in FRONT of the net..not 5 ft in front...
pathetic game
Flint wins 3-1... The team that deserved to win, won tonight. My hats off to the Gens, they played hard all game and took it to a flat Komets team...
So does the team that lost have to give a bag pucks to the winners?
You're killing me, Hit.
Flint isn't as bad as they were at the beginning of the season. They must be bonding. (ala Major League... anyone think they carry around a Mike Franke cardboard cutout that they take a chunk of clothing off of with each win?)
LOL!
Yikes......that would make me want to lose. No wonder they don't have pucks.....they have been hiding those suckers so they don't have to play, and so they don't have to see the little Franke at some point......Yikes.
If the Komets lose Sunday to the JV, then I smell a fish.
If Flint makes the Playoffs.....I will buy me a Flint Generals Jersey and wear it to every game next season.
Is Flint our AAHL farm team?
Is this thing on................???
Maybe the guys were tired from unloading a truck full of old Albany Choppers pucks before the game?????
I heard Dickie Brosal shipped Flint some Danbury Trasher pucks too.
Wow. Now I'm going to have to hope they do make the playoffs just to see that! LOL. So why was the Komets first "no-goal" waved off? I missed it. I know the second one was supposed to be because Nolan touched it when Schrock was jamming it under him or some such thing.
Nobody saw the first goal go in. They did check with goal judge an he said it did not go in. Matt said he saw it go in and then out.
The teams inconsistancy drives me nuts .... cant stand it
Negative N..........evermind. LOL
im just too impatient ... this team has the talent , i just want more out of them lol
Well, really....if you think about it, the Generals won, so we won. Money well spent.
Cha ching, new blog rule, each post must start out cha ching so we can get FWN to get Superfan his blog hit bonus. In addition all red headed hockey chicks must follow up cha cing with woot woot. I served my 2nd entire game in the penalty box today helping my sons team, I felt shame for all my blog fouls but missed sitting by Schebig.
Boy I would have liked to have won tonight along with a sunday win, that would have tightened up places 1-3 in the standings, its going to be another exciting finish, is this 3 years in a row with tight finishes for the top spot, I can't remember.
Welcome to the Jungle Positive Peter.
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