November 29, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) Utica Comets The Utica Comets saw their two-game win streak vanish after a 2-1 loss at the hands of the Albany Devils Saturday afternoon at the Times Union Center.

Will Acton scored his first goal while donning the Comets sweater and recorded his third point in three games. Joe Cannata started in net for the Comets for the first time this season stopping 22 of the 24 shots he faced from the Devils.

It was a pretty tame game up until the tail end of the second period when the Albany Devils found their first goal of the night at 15:38. After a rush into the offensive zone, Graham Black wristed a shot on Cannata which beat him far glove-side for the 1-0 lead. Brandon Burlon was credited with the only assist on the play.

The Comets answered right back just 54 seconds later with their only goal of the night. Brandon DeFazio and Will Acton both entered the attacking zone with the intent to score. A hashmark to hashmark feed gave Acton the opportunity to fire a shot on net. The shot went well wide and bounced hard off of the back boards, ricocheted off of the back of Keith Kinkaid's glove, and directly into the Devils net.

Things turned sour for the Comets in the third period as Darren Archibald took a five minute major penalty, and a 10-minute misconduct for charging at the 8:41 mark.

Hardly three minutes later, the Devils found the game-winner on a power-play goal after a pass from Mike Sislo that gave Joe Whitney a slapshot opportunity to the right of Cannata. Whitney buried the puck for the 2-1 final decision. Brandon Burlon tallied his second assist of the game.

The Utica hockey club will have a couple days of rest before they head back on the road for three-game road trip. The Comets will first visit the Oklahoma City Thunder for an 8 p.m. ET match-up in what will be their first of two meeting this year.

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Comets Lose to Devils 2-1