Fort wayne komet hockey game

Norfolk Admirals. Greenville Swamp Rabbits. South Carolina Stingrays. Worcester Railers. Toledo Walleye. Utah Grizzlies. Fort Wayne Komets. Idaho Steelheads. Kalamazoo Wings. Tulsa Oilers. Rapid City Rush.

Wheeling Nailers. Kansas City Mavericks. Allen Americans. Indy Fuel. I will always be grateful for all I learned from Bob. He gave me the opportunity to work with the Komets during the season and his words of wisdom, support and guidance will always be with me.

Bob Chase is a legend in every sense of the word and we will miss him dearly. In he married Muriel Chase, known to everyone in these parts as "Murph," and Bob took her maiden name as his after a WOWO station manager insisted Wallenstein was too long for broadcasting.

I couldn't tell what was going on. And I like you being yourself. Chase had been a talented hockey player and attended Graveraet High School before enlisting in the navy at He would go on to call nine championships and tell the stories of players like George Drysdale the first captain , Len Thornson considered the top minor-league player of all time , "Mr.

Chase worked at the WOWO studios for 56 years, retiring as their sports director in at age 83, but continuing to call Komets games. While Chase is known mostly for hockey, he called the famed Milan high-school basketball championship in , the game on which the movie "Hoosiers" was based; broadcast Big Ten football from to ; covered the Indy for 27 years; and interviewed celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.

He spun records for afternoon shows and orchestrated "record hops," dances with upward of 1, kids at various locations in northeast Indiana. Yet he opted to stay here so that his family could stay in this community, and there's very little ego there.

He was content to be the big fish in the small pond. The second period saw more of the same in the scoring column with the intensity turned up a notch.

The Walleye outshot the Komets, , in the period to bring the overall shots to 19 apiece. Meanwhile, early in the second period, Butrus Ghafari and Connor Jones got into a scuffle that resulted in both players serving roughing penalties at the mark.

Ten minutes later, Jones pulled Ghafari's helmet off and returned to the penalty box for another roughing minor. Toledo had multiple scoring opportunities in their first power play of the game, but Komets goaltender Liam Hughes made several big saves to keep the Walleye out of the net during the two-minute power play.

Chris Martenet picked up the final penalty of the period at for tripping, and the Walleye and Komets ended the middle period scoreless. The Fort Wayne power play extended into the first 20 seconds of the third period, but the Walleye came away unscathed as the Fish earned the penalty kill.

The Komets broke the tie in dominating fashion, exploding for four straight goals in the third period to take the advantage. Brandon Hawkins was then called for high-sticking at the mark, and Matt Alvaro scored the first of three power play goals for the Komets with just six seconds left in the penalty.

Zach Pochiro and Stephen Harper assisted as the Komets took the lead. At , Matt Murphy entered the penalty box for interference. Then, at , tensions boiled over as a large fight broke out between the Walleye and Komets. Mitchell Heard and Chays Ruddy were sent to the penalty box once the scuffle ended.