The Marlies suffered their first home loss of the season on Saturday in a close 4-3 decision to the Utica Comets.
Tanner MacMaster opened the scoring for the Marlies for the second time in as many games at 11:50 of the first period, extending his point streak (4-4-8) to eight games. Pontus Aberg and Egor Korshkov assisted on the goal. The Comets made their way onto the scoresheet at 16:14, capitalizing on a power play opportunity to even the score 1-1. The Marlies responded with a power play goal from Kenny Agostino at 18:22 to restore a one-goal lead heading into the first intermission.
The Comets converted on the power play again at 9:49 of the second period to knot things up 2-2. The score remained tied through 40 minutes of play.
Utica took their first lead of the game at 4:10 of the third period, but the Marlies answered back with a power play goal at 8:47 to even things back up at 3-3. Reid Boucher scored the go-ahead goal for the Comets at 15:41 of the third period, and the Marlies were unable to battle back to force overtime.
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