MOLINE, Ill. – Mike Wilson scored with five seconds left in overtime to give the host Quad City Mallards (37-24-4) a dramatic come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the Fort Wayne Komets (38-17-8) Friday night.
The third-place Mallards now lead the fourth-place Kalamazoo Wings by four points and trail the second-place Komets- who picked up one point for the sudden death setback- by six points in the Central Division standings.
Wilson provided the game winner by leading a Mallard 3-on-1 rush and rifling the puck in off the post from the right wing circle.
Wilson’s late heroics capped off an evening that saw the Mallards battle back to tie the score three times. Guillaume Gelinas provided the most vital of those equalizers by blasting the puck in from the right point to knot the contest at three with three minutes and 13 seconds left in the third period. Gelinas erased the advantage Trever Cheek had given the Komets by scoring from the slot just 13 seconds into the third.
The Mallards twice rallied in in the second period. Garrett Thompson’s blast from the high slot gave the Komets a 1-0 lead two minutes into the second. The Mallards responded just 50 seconds later when Justin Kovacs buried a rebound. Fort Wayne’s Brett Perlini broke the 1-1 deadlock by sweeping home Jamie Schaafsma’s centering feed at 9:40 of the second. The Mallards squared it again when Adam Gilmour converted Kevin Gibson’s centering feed at 15:11.
With Quad City Mallards release
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