Blake Pietila scored his second goal of the game with 42.5 seconds left in overtime to lift the Albany Devils to a 3-2 victory over the Utica Comets at the Utica Memorial Auditorium.

Pietila’s goal capped an overtime in which the Devils outshot the Comets 6-2 and snapped Albany’s three-game losing streak. The Devils had lost six of their previous seven.

He actually lost a draw in the Utica zone, but he went to the net, stole the puck from Comets defenseman Andrey Pedan and beat goaltender Thatcher Demko.

Rookie goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made 19 saves to earn the victory. Albany outshot Utica, 32-21. Blackwood received the game’s second star. Pietila was the first star, and Utica’s Pascal Pelletier was No. 3.

Pietila got the Devils on the scoreboard first with his team-leading ninth at 12:07 of the first period, but Alexandre Grenier answered 32 seconds later. Ben Sexton’s fifth goal put Albany back on top 2-1, but Utica tied the game 57 seconds later on Pelletier’s score. Sexton’s goal ended a 1-for-31 Devils dry spell on the power play.

Rookie defenseman Yohann Auvitu, sent down earlier Wednesday by the New Jersey Devils, made his Albany debut. He took two shots and had a minus-1 rating.