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President Trump comes to Kennedy Space Center to tout U.S. reentry into lucrative air expo business ↗
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Utica Comets get two power play goals, weather a push by Syracuse Crunch and get a solid start from David Rittich to earn a 5-3 home win Friday. Gabe Klassen scored twice, Ben Steeves and Colin White each had a goal and assist and Lenni Hameenaho also scored for Utica. Rittich made 23 saves to improve to 5-1 this season. Utica is 7-2-0-0 overall through nine games.