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Mar. 06, 2015

The music was loud inside Syracuse’s War Memorial as the Utica Comets and host team the Crunch took warm-ups. However, thousands of miles to the west, in Vancouver, the message couldn’t be clearer from Alex Biega. Two weeks and counting since…

Mar. 06, 2015

Utica Comets’ Brandon DeFazio, an Oakville, Ontario native, did it – he made it to professional hockey’s “show” on Nov. 9, 2014.In September, the Huffington Post ran an eye-opening article titled “How Hard Is It To Make It to the NHL,”…

Mar. 04, 2015

The Utica Comets (33-18-5-1) needed a shoot out on Wednesday night as they defeated the Rochester Americans (24-29-5-1) in a six-round shootout at The Utica Memorial Auditorium for their first shootout-win of the season, which brought an end to their…

Mar. 01, 2015

It hasn’t happened often this season, but after Sunday afternoon’s 6-3 loss to the Hamilton Bulldog’s at The Utica Memorial Auditorium, the Comets have now lost three in a row.Darren Archibald (1-0-1), Cal O’Reilly (1-0-1) and Brendan Gaunce…

Feb. 28, 2015

Just as it was the last time the Utica Comets visited their thruway rivals, they were once again defeated by the Syracuse Crunch in a 4-1 final at the Oncenter War Memorial Arena on Saturday evening.Hunter Shinkaruk found the Comets lone goal of the…

Feb. 27, 2015

It only took the Adirondack Flames 10 tries to finally defeat the Utica Comets 4-0 at The Utica Memorial Auditorium on Friday evening. The Comets record over the Flames sits at 9-1.Unlucky bounces and a plenty of saves happen to be the story of the game…

Feb. 26, 2015

The Utica Comets won their 31st game of the season, and defenseman Andrey Pedan had a bloody lip.It was 15 minutes after the Comets chalked up a 5-2 win downing North Division rival Toronto Marlies at The AUD. The celebratory music was blaring from Utica’s…

Feb. 24, 2015

The Utica Comets (32-15-5-1) got back to their winning ways Tuesday night after they trampled over the Hamilton Bulldogs (26-21-7-0) 5-2 at The Utica Memorial Auditorium. With the win the Comets widened their division lead over the Bulldogs to 11 points.Will…

Feb. 21, 2015

The Utica Comets were downed by the Albany Devils 2-1 Saturday night at the Utica Memorial Auditorium.Brandon DeFazio found the Comets only goal of the game, which matched his season career high for goals with a total of 17. Devils netminder Scott Clemmensen,…

Feb. 20, 2015

Two power-play goals rocketed the Utica Comets over the Toronto Marlies 5-2 Friday evening at The Utica Memorial Auditorium. The Comets have scored two power-play goals in back-to-back games and have won seven of their last nine games.Alexandre Grenier…