ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scott Burt (picture courtesy Greg Martin) assisted on all three Alaska goals in regulation, including the equalizer with 6:29 remaining, and T.J. Fast scored the overtime winner to lift the Aces over Las Vegas, 4-3, before 5,330 Friday at Sullivan Arena.

Alaska has won six straight and nine of its last 10 games at home.  The Aces (25-23-4 overall) also own seven consecutive victories over the Wranglers in Anchorage and have gone 11-2-1 at home since Christmas.  Now tied with Stockton in fourth place in the National Conference, Alaska plays Las Vegas tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. and again Sunday at 5:05 p.m.  Both games will be broadcast live on KFQD 750 AM.

The Wranglers, a respectable 21-23-6 overall but owners of the league's worst road record (now 6-16-4), grabbed a 1-0 lead when Chris Neiszner whistled a wrist shot past Aces starter Scott Reid's glove at 7:19 of the opening period.  Brock McBride, who scored the winner in OT to beat Bakersfield 5-4 February 6, buried a rebound with Alaska on the power play to deadlock the contest at 1-1 with 5:58 left in the frame.

The Aces nosed in front when Merit Waldrop scored his first goal in 10 games in an Alaska sweater at 5:11 of the second period, but two and a half minutes later, Ned Lukacevic's centering pass caromed off Nick Tuzzolino's skate to bring Vegas back into a 2-2 tie.  A scramble in front of the Wranglers net late in the period actually resulted in a four-on-one rush going the other way, with Adam Miller tucking a rebound between Reid's pads at 19:42 for the go-ahead goal.

Leading 3-2 despite having been out-shot 22-11, the visitors hung on for most of the third period, but when Alaska defenseman Bryan Miller decided to let a wrist shot fly between two defenders, Vegas goalie Jimmy Spratt kicked the rebound directly back into the slot, where Miller promptly flicked it just underneath the crossbar, knotting the score 3-3 at 13:31.  Fast's winner came on a backhander shoveled past Spratt (who finished with 33 saves) from between the circles.  Reid, who stopped 18 shots to improve his personal record to 9-9-2, now has won back-to-back starts after going 45 days without a victory.