Match Report: 8.10.2014 - Steelers v Stingrays CC

Wednesday 8^th October 2014 – Sheffield Steelers (3-1-1) v Hull Stingrays (1-0-0) @ Ice Sheffield. Face-off: 7:30pm, Challenge Cup

Sheffield Steelers – 6
Mathieu Roy SH
Luke Ferrara
Gord Baldwin
Michael Forney PP
Tyler Mosienko
Jason Hewitt

Hull Stingrays – 3
Eric Galbraith
Jordan Mayer
Matt Larke

The game got underway and it was a quiet opening until Kohn was given two minutes for hooking which gifted Hull with an early power play but it worked against them as Sheffield won the face-off in their own zone and it would be Forney who picked up the loose puck and skated with the puck into the Hull zone before playing a backhanded pass to Mathieu Roy who nicely placed the puck past the blocker of David Brown to give Sheffield a 1-0 lead on 3:47. Hull wouldn’t create much on the rest of the power play and Sheffield wouldn’t be ahead for long when on 6:29 Jordan Mayer would have possession of the puck from behind the Sheffield goal and he would pass to Eric Galbraith who would fire a one timer from inside the face-off circle pass Doyle to level the game, a goal the Sheffield netminder wasn’t happy with but then just 30 seconds later Sheffield would come again and it would be a first Sheffield Steelers goal for Luke Ferrara as he would pick up the puck of Hewitt from inside the left face-off circle before firing a wrist shot on goal that would bounce up and go in of the shaft of Brown’s stick. Sheffield would have a lot of the puck but there would still be chances for the likes of Cory Tanaka who forced a good save out of Doyle but Sheffield couldn’t figure at Brown again as Fretter showed some great stick handling before putting his shot against the blocker of Brown and before that Roy threw one in front of goal but it was just too fare for Forney to get a tip on it. Cullen Eddy almost had his head in his hands as he almost tipped Turcotte’s shot past his own netminder but Frank Doyle had hold of it in the pads, Frank Doyle was soon busy again though as Carl Lauzon was trying to get his team going but Frank Doyle’s blocker was too fast for the Hull forward. With just over two minutes left in the period Hull was called for too many men and it put Sheffield on the power play and if it wasn’t for Brown the game could have been out of sight but he made several saves including a save from just in front of Roy’s back hand before Mosienko fired a wrist shot of the pipes but it would only be a 2-1 lead that Sheffield would take into the break.

End of the 1st Period: Sheffield Steelers 2–1 Hull Stingrays

Shots on Goal: Steelers 16-9 Stingrays

Second period got underway and Sheffield had lost Mark Thomas as the Steelers defenceman had gone to hospital for an x-ray on his hand after taking a puck in the 1^st period. It was a poor period by the home side as Hull was much of the better side and almost had an early goal if it wasn’t for a fantastic save by Frank Doyle as Lauzon had Doyle beaten with him laid on the ice and he played to Chartrain who had all the goal to aim at but Doyle managed to cover the puck in his body but then not long after that on 23:10 Jordan Mayer received the puck in the neutral zone and with his solo effort skated into the Sheffield zone beating two Steelers players before firing a nicely taken wrist shot under the arm of Doyle to level the score at 2-2. Hull continued to work had as Cory Tanaka stole the puck of the stick of Colton Fretter but wasn’t able to get a shot away on goal, Hull would then hit the post after Yan Turcotte who was probably luck to not be in the box fired a shot against the pipes, Hull captain Matt Davies was next to try his luck but his shot was blocked by Hay, Sheffield did have a powerplay attempt but didn’t create much in offence and with the 2^nd period coming to an end and on 39:10 Hull took the lead after Mayer fired a shot on goal from the top of the face-off circle only for Matt Larke to deflect past the leg of Doyle but Sheffield were unlucky not to go into the break level at 3-3 but 5 seconds left on the clock David Brown performed a fantastic save off a re-direct off Ferrara which landed straight in the glove of the Hull netminder.
End of the 2nd Period: Sheffield Steelers 2–3 Hull Stingrays

Shots on Goal: Steelers 8–9 Stingrays

Sheffield came into the third period hoping to turn up after a poor second session and that’s what happened it was a third period dominated by the home side and David Brown was called upon 3 times to keep out the Steelers but it was fourth time a charm when on 43:52 Gord Baldwin skated from zone to zone beating 3 Hull players before firing a backhanded shot past the glove of David Brown to level the score at 3-3.  The Steelers continued to come at the Stingrays feeling confident and seemed to be shooting on sight  and Sheffield would be given a 5 on 3 powerplay for 1:51 with Mayer in the box for hooking Sheffield from the face-off shot on Brown’s goal but he decided to knock the goal of his moorings and not for the first time in the game and it was a decision Darnel didn’t like and a call that David Brown was extremely upset with but it didn’t take the Steelers long to make it count when Fretter skates into the zone and set up Forney in between the circles to fire the puck past Brown to give the Steelers a 4-3 lead on 49:23. There would be more Sheffield dominating and would also see another powerplay for the home side but Brown didn’t have much to deal with the best opportunity probably fell to Cory Tanaka but he was all alone and Frank Doyle came out to poke the puck of his stick the scoring wasn’t finished yet though when on 54:30 Jonathan Phillips played the puck to Tyler Mosienko who used Turcotte as a shield and fired the puck under the glove of David Brown to put the Steelers 5-3 up and keep his average of a point a game going. Hull were trying to get back into the game when Mayer forced a good body save out of Doyle, Hull then called a time-out but it didn’t help them when on 56:11 the British bulldog finished the scoring when Luke Ferrara passed to Phil Hill who skated around the goal and played a back handed pass through his legs for Jason Hewitt to tap it in from 2 inches, that would be the end of the scoring and it would be an important two points for the Steelers who moved 3 points clear in the group standings.
Shots on Goal: Steelers 16–3 Stingrays

FINAL SCORE: Sheffield Steelers 6–3 Hull Stingrays

Boxscore (1st-2nd-3rd-OT-[PIM]-{PP}-S)

Sheffield - 2-0-4-0-[2]-{1/5}-40

Hull         - 1-2-0-0-[10]-{0/1}-21

Sheffield Man of the Match: #29 Luke Ferrara
Hull Man of the Match: #7 Cory Tanaka

Sheffield Points Round Up: - 14 Points
Gord Baldwin (1+0), Michael Forney (1+1), Mathieu Roy (1+0), Jason Hewitt (1+1), Jay Latulippe (0+1), Jonathan Phillips (0+1), Tyler Mosienko (1+0), Phil Hill (0+2), Luke Ferrara (1+1), Colton Fretter (0+1)

Hull Points Round Up: - 9 Points

Cory Tanaka (0+3), Matt Larke (1+0), C.J. Chartrain (0+1), Eric Galbraith (1+0), Jordan Mayer (1+2)

Referee: #9 Tom Darnell

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Linesman: #14 James Kavanagh

Linesman: #30 Luke Palmer

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