Comets Respond, Even Series With Barons By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine Respond. That’s what the Comets did last night, as they have all season. They bounced back from adversity. Adam Clendening and Alexander Grenier each had a goal and an assist and Captain Cal O’Reilly dished out two assists as Utica topped Okahoma City 2-1 in overtime. The...
Gaunce Scores two as Comets Beat Wolves, win Playoff Series By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – Heading into the deciding game of Utica’s first AHL playoff hockey series since 1993, I was reminded of the words Mario Lemieux texted each of his Pittsburgh Penguin players before Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final. “Play without...
In a Game Worth the 22 Year Wait, Comets Streak Past Wolves, Take 2-1 Series Lead By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – With thunderous applause, playoff hockey triumphantly returned to Utica, New York for the first time in 22 years, and the Utica Comets responded with lightning, dramatically streaking past the Chicago Wolves 2-1 in overtime...
Great preview by Mark Caswell. You can read it at the Comets site here. The Wolves were the one team that scared me more than any other with their speed, tape-to-tape passing, and chippy-ness. They were unfazed coming into the Aud for two games, trouncing the Comets 3-0 and then bowing 4-3 on a late seeing-eye, bouncing puck that trickled over the goalie’s...
Video courtesy of Utica Comets Heroes Welcome Home for Utica Comets After Clinching top Seed in the AHL West By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – Sirens wailed, strobe lights flashed, and an entire city gave a collective cheer of joy as the Utica Comets returned home owners of the top seed in the AHL Western Conference and home-ice advantage...
April Fool, World! Utica is Back on Top By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – If it’s an April Fools joke, it’s on everyone who ever kicked Utica when it was down: With a 5-1 smearing of the Rochester Americans on Wednesday and losses by Adirondack Flames, Toronto Marlies, and Hamilton Bulldogs over the next 24 hours, the Utica...
AHL PLAYOFF PUSH REDUX – WESTERN CONFERENCE by Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine It was the coldest winter in 157 years in the heart of the AHL, but that’s all behind them now. After setting two misery records – lowest average temperature in recorded history (7.2 degrees for the entire month of February), and most days in negative temps for...
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How to Quell a Silly Trade Rumor in 1000 Words or Less By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine SWIFTY’S PUB, UTICA, NY – It’s 3:30 p.m. on game day, and Swifty’s is already packed, the party in full swing. Smoldering redhead Carly is slinging hot pink drinks to cute, curvy 20-somethings while a crowd of hopeful guys mows down burgers piled...
No Bobby, No Alex, No Problem! Comets top Marlies 5-2 By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – There’s no I in this team, but there sure is a capital D, because despite losing All-star Bobby Sanguinetti and workhorse Alex Biega to the parent Vancouver Canucks, the feisty Utica Comets smothered the Toronto Marlies 5-2 last night at the Utica...
So Ernesto will be sailing back to the Dominican Republic to hang out on the rocks at Casa De Campo after a late rally at the end saved the regular season. Then he hit his stride in the playoffs and finished with a flourish correctly picking the Seahawks +7 and the OVER 41.5 In the playoffs we here at AWITP went 5-2 in teasers, 11-3 overall. The season totals clock...
While we’re down in Florida playing Seminole, Old Memorial, and both Streamsong courses, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana is ready for the Super Bowl. It’s his last appearance for the year, so lets end on a high note. We went 3-1 over all last wee, 1-1 in teasers, bringing the playoff totals to 4-2 in teasers, 9-3 overall. Here’s your winning play for...
Top Five Teams to Come Through the Utica Aud at the AHL Halfway Point by Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine As we close in on the AHL All-star break, the plucky, feisty, surprising Utica Comets are the darlings of the AHL and a feel-good story resounding all around hockey. Yes, they lost last night 2-1 to Milwaukee on a goal in the final minute, but with three...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went 2-2 overall last week, 1-1 in teasers to bring the playoff totals to 6-2 and 3-1 in teasers!
Here’s the winning plays for this weekend!
packers +14.5 at SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS-packers OVER 40.5
colts +13 at PATRIOTS
PATRIOTS-colts OVER 46.5
By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine UTICA, NY – The Utica Comets season has been like an old Brady Bunch episode, only instead of Jan plaintively wailing “Marsha Marsha Marsha,” it’s “Marky Marky Marky.” For a journalist it’s getting difficult to come to come up with something new, because every other column starts...