The IceCaps are looking to add some much-needed wins during their final road trip of the regular season. Starting the first match of a seven-game stretch before heading back home, they need to score some major points in order to grab themselves a spot in the playoffs. Up first was a divisional rival, the Utica Comets, who sat five points ahead of the IceCaps in third place of the North Division.
Both teams proved early on in the contest that they came to play, hitting the ice fast and furious. It looked like the Comets would be the ones to use that energy to open the scoring, when the IceCaps turned the puck over in their own end early in the first.