THIS DATE IN COMETS HISTORY JANUARY 27 1983--The Comets produced the first three-game winning streak ever in team history, prevailing 8-5 over the Buffalo Stallions before a slightly disappointing crowd of 11,296 at Kemper Arena. Yilmaz Orhan had a hat trick, Elson Seale scored twice and Greg Makowski had 4 assists, earning Victor Petroni his 5th-straight win in the nets. YO opened the scoring 9:55 into the game on a counter-attack, as he brought the ball all way up from the Comets end and rolled a shot past goalie Jim May. A little while later, Elson took a shot from a bad angle in the right-wing corner and rang the ball off both goal posts to put Kansas City up 2-0. Stuart Lee extended the lead to 3-0 in the 2nd quarter when a long-range Greg Villa shot escaped from Mays clutches and rebounded right to Stu on the doorstep and a couple minutes later, Orhan dialed one up from downtown to make it 4-0. Buffalo made things interesting with a 4-goal 3rd quarter outburst, but the Comets overcame it in the 4th on goals by Seale and Zoran Savic. Drew Ferguson scored twice for the Stallions. 1984--The Comets visited the New York Arrows for the final time at Nassau Coliseum and lost to them for the final time as well in a penalty-filled match, 5-4 in a shootout before 8.864 on Long Island. Jim Tietjens made his first start in goal and suffered his first loss as a Comet, Craig Stahl scored his final MISL career goal and Gino Schiraldi left the match with an injury to his instep. Starting Arrows goalkeeper Zoltan Toth faced an MISL record 38 shots on goal in one half by the Comets, but during the shootout, he tore his left groin and was forced to leave. Shep Messing replaced him, made one save, and got credit for the win. As Archie Bunker once said, Now, thats a kick in the groin. Meantime our good buddy Mark Liveric scored twice for New York, who won the post-game shootout 2-1 (Gary Etherington scored the winning goal). Things got heated early in the 4th quarter too, as Gordon Hill and the Arrows Doc Lawson were playin The Feud and both were given red card ejections for fighting. 1985--Laurie Abrahams made his Comets debut in a Sunday matinee at Chicago Stadium and watched Victor Nogueira record the first shutout by the Chicago Sting as members of the MISL, a 3-0 Sting win before 15,014 Chicagoans. The shutout was the fourth by a Comets opponent and Frank Klopas scored his first MISL career goal as the Sting improved to 12-0 on the season in their own house, the Madhouse On Madison Street. 1988--The Comets offense was still cooking as they put up another touchdown en route to a 7-4 win over the Wichita Wings before 8,194 at Kemper Arena. Kia had his first hat trick as a Comet and Damir Haramina had two goals and became the third Comet ever to score 80 regular season goals (after Tasso Koutsoukos and Dale Mitchell). The Wings, who dropped their 7th-straight in Kansas City, and got a hat trick from Mickey Thomas, who was on loan from (Jefferson) Starship at the time, but the Wichita dropped to a woeful 0-13 on the road to that point of the season. Mr. Haramina put KC on the board just under two minutes into the match when Tasso Koutsoukos drew Ziggy Zigante out of his net and Tassos shot landed right on Damirs foot. His initial shot hit the end boards, but it rebounded right back to him and he nailed it on the second try, burning defender Jean Willrich. Midway through the quarter, Kia corralled a blocked Jan Goossens shot in the penalty area and fired into an empty net (and did a nice somersault in celebration) to make it 2-0, Kansas City. A couple minutes later, Damir found himself all alone in the Wichita end and he fired off a shot that got all glass to the left of the goal post, but bounded into the net off of Zigante. Early in the 2nd quarter, Gino Schiraldi tried to fire off a shot in the right-wing corner, but it ricocheted out to the top of the arc where Tonnie Wareman was Tonnie-on-the-Spot and nailed a rocket with the right foot to make it 4-0. Thomas put Wichita on the board with just four seconds left in the first half when he poked in a rebound that squirted free from goalkeeper Ed Gettemeier. Mickey wasted no time in the second half when he scored just ten seconds in when Dave Hoggan fed him perfectly on the doorstep. Thomas completed his hat trick with exactly 6:00 left in the 3rd quarter on another perfect feed from Mike Stankovic. At that point, the Comets said, Move over, Rover--and let Kia take over, when the little man with the size-6 shoes redirected a feed from Dale Mitchell in the right-wing corner to give KC an 5-3 lead. In the 4th quarter, Mr. Zolgharnain finished off his hat trick on a fluky play where Jan Goossens actually mis-kicked a pass but it somehow found Kias right foot in mid-air and he buried it. The Wings went to the 6th-attacker with just under eight minutes remaining, and it immediately paid dividends on a left-footed lazer from Erik The Wizard Rasmussen, but thats as close as Wichita would get. Defender Dave Boncek eventually sealed the deal with an empty net roller with 2:22 left. Wanna watch this one? Its on YouTube, as you can see. 1990--Final score: Baltimore Blast 8, Dale Mitchell 4. Before a packed house of 12,392 at Baltimore Arena, the Blast took care of the Comets and were led by the late Domenic Mobilios hat trick in Mike Stankovics return to Charm City after a stint playing for the Wichita Wings. Stankovic wasnt exactly welcomed back warmly, strangely enough, as Blast fans had taken a liking to David Byrne, who was traded to Wichita in the deal to reacquire Mollie. Meantime, Mitchells four goals comprised the 80th hat trick in Comets history (and his 17th) in the Comets 5th-straight loss at Baltimore. The Comets got banged up again too, as Kim Roentved (who recorded career assist #200) left in the second half with a thigh bruise and defender Iain Fraser required 14 stitches in his left elbow during the match as well. 1995--The Attack won for the first time ever in Baltimore in a thriller, 17-16 before 4,844 the Big Crab Cake. Lee Tschantret, Robi Goff and Nate Houser each scored twice as the Attack pulled away from the Spirit in the 4th quarter. Jon Parry, formerly of the Attack, scored twice on the night, and got Baltimore to within one point on a 3-point 6th-attacker goal with just 20 seconds left in the game. Goran Hunjaks 24-game point-scoring streak game to an end in this match.
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