JOBST LIFTS AMERKS TO OVERTIME WIN IN UTICA

Amerks close out 2024 with league-leading 13th road win over Comets

Dec 28, 2024

On the strength of his first two-goal outing since last October, captain Mason Jobst (2+0) gave the Rochester Americans (19-9-3-0) a 3-2 victory in the first minute of overtime to complete a two-game sweep of the Utica Comets (6-15-2-2) Saturday at Adirondack Bank Center.

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Rochester has now won 11 of its last 13 games – including its sixth straight on the road – and has earned at least one point in 21 of its last 27 contests dating back to Oct. 23. Additionally, the Amerks, who improved to 6-1-0-0 in the season series against Utica, close out the 2024 calendar year in first place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

Along with Jobst’s two-point outing, Kale Clague (1+1) and Lukas Rousek also recorded two points in the victory, Rochester’s league-leading 13^th road win of the season and 14^th of the last 15 games on the road against the Comets dating back to last season.

Riley Fiddler-Schultz, who sparked Friday’s win with the first two-goal game of his AHL career, tallied an assist for his sixth point (4+2) over his last six contests. Vsevolod Komarov closed out the scoring as he earned his seventh helper on Clague’s second-period goal.

Goaltender Felix Sandström pushed his record to 5-4-1 with Rochester as he made 23 saves in his 10^th appearance of the season and first since Dec. 14. The netminder, who boasts a 2-1-0 mark against the Comets on the slate, has won his last two contests while allowing a pair of goals in each game.

In a scoreless opening period, neither team generated much offense as Rochester carried an 11-8 shot-advantage. The Amerks had 10 different skaters record at least one shot with Clague registering a pair to lead the club, while Mike Hardman topped all Utica players as he had three of his team’s eight.

Less than two minutes after Sandström made a sprawling left pad to keep the game scoreless, Utica forced the Amerks into a defensive zone turnover and quickly capitalized on the ill-advised error.

Xavier Parent retrieved the puck inside the blueline, and while he had a teammate to the backside of the crease, he fired a shot over the glove of the…