Comets ride Demko’s hot hand to force Game 5 showdown against Marlies

UTICA, N.Y. — The frenzied home crowd certainly played a role, as did Reid Boucher and Nikolay Goldobin but, in the playoffs, it usually comes down to the goalie. On Friday night Thatcher Demko stared down the end of his season and decided he’d like to play another game.
Demko, the Vancouver Canucks’ prize goaltending prospect, stopped 40 of 42 shots, including a couple of momentum-turners, in backstopping the Utica Comets to a 5-2 win before another sellout crowd of loonies at