CHL Fort Wayne Komets

Komets to Clash with Thunder in Opening Round

March 27, 2011 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Fort Wayne Komets News Release


Fort Wayne, IN. -- The Komets will face the Bloomington PrairieThunder in a best-of-five opening round playoff series in the quest for the Ray Miron Presidents' Cup. Bloomington earned third seed in the Turner Conference and will have home ice advantage against the sixth-seeded Komets. Game one is slated for Saturday, April 2 at Bloomington. Game two will be Sunday, April 3 at Bloomington.

The series will shift to Fort Wayne for game three Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30pm ET. If game four is necessary it will be played in Fort Wayne Friday, April 8 at 8pm ET. If the series needs a fifth game, it will be held at Bloomington Sunday, April 10.

FORT WAYNE KOMETS VS BLOOMINGTON PRAIRIETHUNDER

CHL Presidents' Cup Playoffs Opening Round, best-of-five series

Game 1: Saturday, April 2 Fort Wayne at Bloomington 8:05pm ET

Game 2: Sunday, April 3 Fort Wayne at Bloomington 4:05pm ET

Game 3: Wednesday, April 6 Bloomington at Fort Wayne 7:30pm ET

*Game 4: Friday, April 8 Bloomington at Fort Wayne 8:00pm ET

*Game 5: Sunday, April 10 Fort Wayne at Bloomington 4:05pm ET

*-if necessary

All Komet playoff action can be heard on Fort Wayne radio WOWO AM 1190 with Bob Chase calling the play-by-play in his 58th season behind the Fort Wayne microphone and online right here at Xfinity KometCast.

Playoff tickets for the Komets' first home playoff game against Bloomington Wednesday, April 6, are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at

TicketMaster.com . Season tickets for 2011-12 are also now on sale. For more information visit the Komet office, call 260-483-0011.

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