Steelers Dominate At The NIC v Panthers: (EIHL) Game Recap

Saturday 1st March 2013 - Nottingham Panthers (23-15-6) v Sheffield Steelers (24-15-4) @ National Ice Centre. Face off: 7pm

The final match between the Steelers and the Panthers and it would be Sheffield that would be taking home the extra point.

Frank Doyle in goal for the Steelers, Craig Kowalski in goal for the Panthers, No Brent Henley for Nottingham as he is banned and once again no Steven Goertzen and no Mark Thomas for the Steelers. Nottingham took a two goal lead and would strike first at 6:52 as Matt Francis would score with assists from Robert Farmer and Tom Norton and then on 8:56 after a give away on the blue line David Clarke would score to make it 2-0 with an assist being credited to Leigh Salters. New Sheffield head coach Gerad Adams would call a time out at 8:56 of the first period and apparently the players would be back on the Ice after 10 seconds of a 30 second time out with Gerad simply saying some simple words "Hit Them".
End of the 1st Period: Nottingham Panthers 2-0 Sheffield Steelers

Sheffield would pull a goal back on 36:01 when Tim Spencer scored assisted by Chris Blight and Jeff Legue as Sheffield were massively out shooting Nottingham after already wasting three power play attempts.
End of the 2nd Period: Nottingham Panthers 2-1 Sheffield Steelers

Sheffield would come out for the third period and carry on where they left off where they carried on hammering at Kowalski's goal and on 57:01 they found their equaliser with the scorer being Stefan Meyer after a fantastic assist by Drew Fata. Both teams had failed to score on the power play on the night four for Sheffield and three for Nottingham.
End of Regulation and Overtime: Nottingham Panthers 2-2 Sheffield Steelers

Into the shootout and first up would be Chris Blight who would successfully score against Kowalski followed up by Matt Francis who would be denied by Frank Doyle. Maxime Lacroix would step up to make it 2-0 in the shoot out before Eric Werner had to score to keep the shoot out going but wouldn't be able to convert and Sheffield would win 3-2 and take the extra point home.

FINAL SCORE: Nottingham Panthers 2-3 Sheffield Steelers (PS)

Boxscore (1st-2nd-3rd-OT-[PIM]-{PP}-S)
Nottingham  - 2-0-0-0-[12]-{0/3}-17
Sheffield       - 0-1-1-0-[10]-{0/4}-48

Nottingham Man of the Match: #33 Craig Kowalski
Sheffield Man of the Match: #75 Robert Dowd

Referee: #27 Mike Hicks
Referee:
Linesman: #14 James Kavanagh
Linesman: #25 Andy Dalton

A massive two points in the race for second point as this win keeps them in second one point ahead of Nottingham after coming from two goals down to win 3-2 in the shoot out. Up next for Nottingham is a trip to Dundee and next up for Sheffield is a home game v Gerad Adams old team the Cardiff Devils on Sunday.

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