Warm appreciation to George for his latest contribution to FSB, All credit for this piece goes to him.
The Arena season finale came
against a Guildford Flames side in the first leg of the playoffs. Both sides
went into it into good form, but over the course of the weekend it ended up
being the Steelers who progressed to the finals weekend. The game
started very badly for the Steelers. Going one nil down because of a tipped
shot out in front of Mustukovs on a delayed penalty to make it 1-0. It remained
the same scoreline for another 1 and a half periods.
John
Armstrong was the first scorer of the night for the Steelers, picking up a
loose puck in the end zone to snipe one past the impressive one man show
stopper Brian Stewart. The joy was cut short when a Geoff Walker feed was
tapped in at the back door by Brett Ferguson, however a 5 on 3 powerplay ripper
from Robert Dowd cancelled out the goal moments later, he sniped one low past
Stewart.
Then came goal of the season from Armstrong, whose skating skills
proved dividends past 5 skaters of the Flames, before nice stick handling and
an excellent chip shot beat Stewart to make it 3-2. Soon after Valdix made it 4-2
after excellent patient skating from Fretter made it possible to deliver an
excellent back door feed, for an easy tap in past the wall. The game was
rounded off by Matheson, who effectively put Guildford out of contention, his
low snipe beat everybody including Stewart, to end the Flames season.
Final score Steelers 5-2
Flames
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