CHARLOTTE, NC – While it was lacking the fireworks from the previous night, Charlotte’s rematch with Hartford yielded the same result, with the Checkers notching their fourth win in a row.
The home team jumped out to an early lead thanks to a power-play tally from Aleksi Saarela that somehow found its way into the back of the net, then doubled that advantage before the first buzzer via a Marcus Kruger finish of an Andrew Poturalski wrap around.
Hartford pushed back in the middle frame, outshooting the Checkers 14-8 and finally snapping Alex Nedeljkovic’s shutout streak that lasted over two full games worth of play. Charlotte quickly responded, however, as Warren Foegele followed up his own shot and buried his 23rd marker of the year to close out the second.
Things slowed in the third as neither team was able to gain much of a footing, allowing the Checkers to bear down and ride out the remainder of regulation, skating away with their fifth consecutive win at Bojangles’ Coliseum and fourth overall.
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