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Walleye secure 1st win of 2026-27 season
Toledo’s Brandon Hawkins handles the puck during the second game of the ECHL Kelly Cup Playoffs Central Division finals between the Toledo Walleye and Fort Wayne Komets at the Huntington Center in Toledo on May 12.

FISHERS, Ind. — The Toledo Walleye scored three second-period goals en route to their first win of the season, a 5-2 victory at the Indy Fuel on Friday.

Tag Bertuzzi notched a pair of goals, while both Brandon Hawkins and Quinn Preston finished with a goal and an assist. Marcus Crawford tallied three assists and Mitch Lewandowski added two more for Toledo (1-1).

Harrison Israels gave Indy a 1-0 lead just past the 10-minute mark of the opening period.

But late in the first, at the start of a power play, Bertuzzi scored his first goal to knot the score at 1. On the power play again 8:15 into the middle period, Brandon Hawkins made it 2-1.

The other goal scorer for the Walleye, Nick Nardecchia, converted at 17:42 of the second for a 3-1 advantage. Then not even two minutes later, Bertuzzi’s second goal pushed it to a three-goal advantage.

Jacob Perreault’s power-play goal less than three minutes into the third sliced the Fuel’s deficit in half. But the Walleye’s defense held the rest of the way, and Preston’s goal with 2:03 to go iced it.

Toledo now heads to Wheeling at 7:10 p.m. Saturday as it continues its road trip to begin the season.

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