Fort Wayne, IN-- The Komets rode a pair of goals by Mike Embach to a 2-1 victory Thursday night at Allen and cut the American’s Western Conference best-of-seven series lead to 2-1.
Embach opened the scoring at 4:11 of the first period for the only goal of the session. Embach again solved Allen goaltender Jake Hildebrand at 19:18 of the second frame to send the match into the second intermission with the Komets up 2-0.
Allen answered with a marker at 11:36 of the third period to cut the Fort Wayne lead in half but the Komets held off the Americans for the remaining 8:24 of the stanza for the win.
Pat Nagle earned Fort Wayne’s win stopping 27 of 28 shots while Hildebrand suffered the loss making 35 saves on 37 shots. The Komets were 0/4 on the power play while Allen was 0/1 with the man advantage.
The Komets will tangle with the Americans in game 4 Saturday at Allen. Thursday night’s win forces a game 5 which will be played Sunday at Allen.
If games 6 and 7 are needed, they will be held in Fort Wayne Tuesday, May 24 and Thursday May 26.
2016 ECHL KELLY CUP WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALSFORT WAYNE KOMETS VS ALLEN AMERICANSAllen leads best-of-seven series 2-1Game 1- Friday, May 13.................... Allen 5 at Fort Wayne 3Game 2- Sunday, May 15................. Allen 3 at Fort Wayne 2 OTGame 3- Thursday, May 19...............Fort Wayne 2 at Allen 1Game 4- Saturday, May 21............... Fort Wayne at Allen, 8:05pm ETGame 5- Sunday, May 22................. Fort Wayne at Allen, 5:05pm ETGame 6- Tuesday, May 24................Allen at Fort Wayne, 7:30pm ET *Game 7- Thursday, May 26...............Allen at Fort Wayne, 7:30pm ET**If necessary.
Komet Playoff Hockey on the air-- All games are scheduled to be broadcast on WOWO Radio AM 1190 and FM 105.7. Broadcasts can also be heard at Komets.com presented by OmniSource.
Season tickets-- Season Tickets for 2016-17 are on sale at the Komet office at 1010 Memorial Way in Fort Wayne. For information visit www.komets.com or call 260-483-0011.
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