The Belleville Senators owned the scoreboard in dispatching the Utica Comets on Sunday afternoon at CAA Arena.
Oskar Pettersson recorded his first career AHL hat trick and Mads Sogaard posted a 31-save shutout in a 7-0 B-Sens whitewashing against former Senator Angus Crookshank and the Comets.
Pettersson got the ball rolling with a shorthanded goal, catching up to a flipped-out puck and whistling a shot short-side on Jakob Malek for his sixth of the season more than five minutes into the opening frame.
The marker, assisted by Keean Washkurak, was also the Sens sixth while down a man in 2025-26.
Late in the period, Jan Jenik slipped out from behind the Utica net and hit Landen Hookey with a clean pass in the close slot, and the big rookie didn’t miss in burying his second of the year on a powerplay.
Belleville added on in the second, with Pettersson again beating Malek on a setup from Jamieson Rees and Hayden Hodgson even strength and Arthur Kaliyev becoming the first AHLer this season to eclipse the 20-goal mark with a powerplay tally, assisted by Phil Daoust and Olle Lycksell to make it 4-0.
The Sens didn’t quit their surge from there either, with Lycksell scoring while falling at 17:55, unassisted to extend the lead by one more notch.
At the other end, goaltender Mads Sogaard was a rock for the B-Sens.
The Comets dominated the third in shots and offensive zone time, posting 11 straight shots in the frame, but as was the case all day, they were left frustrated.
Hookey poked in his second of the game on a rebound for his first multi-point game in professional hockey and Pettersson capped it off with his hat trick tally in the late moments.
The Sens improve to 13-15-5-0 on the season and jump the Cleveland Monsters for 5th in the North Division with 31 points ahead of a New Year’s Eve rivalry clash with the Laval Rocket at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
