Sunday 7th December 2014 – Fife Flyers (8-10-2)
v Sheffield Steelers (14-5-1) @ Fife Ice Arena. Face-off: 6:30pm, Elite League
Fife
Flyers – 1
Scott Fleming – 2nd SHG
Sheffield Steelers – 4
Mathieu Roy (3) – 2nd, 2nd PP, 3rd
Tyler Mosienko – 3rd ENG
Scott Fleming – 2nd SHG
Sheffield Steelers – 4
Mathieu Roy (3) – 2nd, 2nd PP, 3rd
Tyler Mosienko – 3rd ENG
Fife came out for the start of the game guns blazing and were looking to make a quick impression and get on the board early and Doyle was called upon several times in the early stages of the games when Haines saw his shot blocked and then #8 forced a great glove save out of the Sheffield netminder after a 2v1 break for Fife, It was almost a Sheffield mistake that helped open the scoring after a poor giveaway by Hay Flyers skates on goal but Doyle made the save and Chaumont also tipped onto Doyle from just in front and almost put away his own rebound only for Doyle to deny him again. Dowd had the first real opportunity for Sheffield after skating down the right but couldn’t get it past Regan. Mark Thomas was next to save his team after blocking a goal bound shot after Doyle was caught out. Fife got the first man advantage of the night but it was an aggressive penalty kill by the visitors and managed to kill the penalty itself and Sheffield would then receive a 5 on 3 opportunity. Sheffield would hit the pipes twice and Mosienko would also see a decent chance go begging after he shot his one timer just wide of the goal but neither team would get on the board and would go into the break all tied at 0-0.
End of the 1st Period: Fife Flyers 0–0 Sheffield
Steelers
Shots on Goal: Flyers 12-12 Steelers
Sheffield started the second period offensively as it was Fretter who played in Roy who turned nicely but couldn’t get the puck past Kevin Regan. Fife soon lost Haines to injury after a collision in the Sheffield zone the Flyers D-man wouldn’t return for the remainder of the game. Fife went close to opening the scoring on two occasions but on the first one Doyle made a fantastic save from out in front and on the second O’Connor swiped the puck of the goal line and then Fretter would skate into the zone down the middle but he couldn’t creep his back hand through the legs of Regan and at the other end Doyle had to fantastically deny Anderson but the deadlock would be broken by the visitors when at 30:00 Eddy passed to his left for Mathieu Roy to tap into the open goal for 1-0. It could have been 2-0 when Mosienko and Dowd broke 2v1 but referee Cowan went penalty crazy when Fife lost another D-man who was thrown out of the game for abuse to an official but shorthanded Fife would break down the right and Fulton would throw one in front of goal and Fleming would level the game at 1-1 timed at 30:57 in which Doyle had no chance in saving. Cowan did go penalty crazy and Sheffield would have four 5 on 3 power plays but Kevin Regan was outstanding as was the Fife penalty kill who spent the majority of the second session on the penalty kill but Regan would be beaten eventually at 37:50 O’Connor threw one on goal and Roy picked up the rebound to slot past Regan to give the Steelers a 2-1 lead going into the break. Which had plenty of penalties and plenty of incidents as you can tell with the four 5 on 3 power plays for the visitors.
End of the 2nd Period: Fife Flyers 1–2 Sheffield Steelers
Shots on Goal: Flyers 7–17 Steelers
Sheffield came out for the third period meaning business and after forcing Regan into some early saves the visitors extended their lead to 3-1 at 42:26 when Roy exchanged passes with Forney before eventually completing his hat-trick by putting his backhanded shot through five hole of Regan. Fife would lose another player as Nickerson was thrown out of the game after a coming together behind Doyle’s goal and Sheffield would have a 5 minute powerplay where they would also have two minutes of it 5 on 3 but the very impressive Flyers penalty kill would perform again blocking shots, clearing their lines and Kevin Regan was just outstanding it was a very one sided penalty as Sheffield were putting a lot of pressure on the Fife goal but the home side got a late power play which made a change after spending the majority of the night on the penalty kill and Flyers went very close when they tipped a shot in between the legs of Doyle but the Steelers netminder squeezed his legs together and kept the score line at 3-1. Into the final minute of the game after Dowd missed one empty net Tyler Mosienko made sure he didn’t miss like he did last week when he took his time to slot past two defenceman at 59:14 for a 4-1 score line to secure a four point weekend for the Steelers.
Shots on Goal: Flyers 5–17 Steelers
FINAL SCORE: Fife Flyers 1–4 Sheffield Steelers
Boxscore (1st-2nd-3rd-OT-[PIM]-{PP}-S)
Fife - 0-1-0-0-[81]-{0/2}-24
Sheffield - 0-2-2-0-[10]-{1/10}-46
Fife Man of the Match: #32 Kevin Regan
Sheffield Man of the Match: #15 Mathieu Roy
Fife Points Round Up: - 2 Points
Scott Fleming (1+0), Jordan Fulton (0+1)
Sheffield Points Round Up: - 10 Points
Cullen Eddy (0+1), Michael
Forney (0+1), Mathieu Roy (3+0), Tyler Mosienko (1+0), Colton Fretter (0+2),
Robert Dowd (0+1), Ben O’Connor (0+1)
Referee: #19 Rab Cowan
Referee: #19 Rab Cowan
Referee:
Linesman: #35 Lewis Gibson
Linesman: #31 Ally Flockhart
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