Justin A. Cohn
The Journal Gazette
WICHITA, Kan. – Not often in the Komets’ 60-year-history – if ever – has a line spent as much time behind the opposing team’s goal as Colin Chaulk, Mike Vaskivuo and Chris Auger. Wraparound goals, passes for one-timers in front, back-and-forth dekes that make the goalies’ necks hurt. Those have been the types of plays we’ve come to know from the Komets’ top line.
And in the playoffs, it has totaled 20 goals and 52 points in 15 games, including back-to-back wins in Wichita that gave the Komets a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven President’s Cup finals over the Thunder.
But there is a downside to setting up shop behind the net, and that’s if you overcommit, you can get trapped back there, lose the puck and make it easier for the other team to score at the other end.
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