Tuesday night is a hockey night as Steelers play their first midweek regular season game of the 2017-18 season.
After picking up three out of a possible four, and it could have been four if:
1. We had taken one of those chances in overtime
2. That freak goal that Justin Faryna did actually score via the plexi and Moose's back
Steelers play their first game across the car park and are back in the en suite bathroom as it is joking referred to as, entertaining this team:
Yes it is those Stars from the City of Discovery. After weeks of uncertainty before the league's AGM; Dundee are still in business. However, there's a new man behind the bench after former Steeler Marc LeFebvre suddenly left to become an assistant coach at ECHL side Cincinnati Cyclones. His replacement, and also given the dual role of General Manager (a bit like Thommo here) is former Hull Stingrays and Manchester Storm player-coach Omar Pacha. Pacha has hung the skates up and is now a man behind the bench, making decisions on and off the ice.
The Stars roster has predictably changed a lot from last season's one which made the final four of the play-offs; narrowly losing to Cardiff. Gone are speedy playmaker Vinny Scarsella, former AHL goalie Joe Fallon, captain Faryna and promising Brit defenceman Craig Moore. The last two of course are in Cardiff and we saw them both in action against us on the Saturday. Replacing Fallon in between the pipes is former Braehead and Edinburgh netminder Travis Fullerton and up top, Pacha is reunited with Taylor Dickin whom he coached last season at Manchester. Also in the ranks is the mercurial Chris Lawrence who we all know about.
We can therefore expect a hard game as Pacha will set his team to frustrate the Steelers from the first puck drop, so we need to be patient and may have to take our time in seeing them off. Yet, if Steelers reproduce their offensive performance which saw seven goals go by Brian Stewart then Fullerton could be facing a lot of rubber.
My prediction: Steelers will find Stars a tough nut to crack but should see them off with a third period burst of goals. I'm going for a 5-2 home win. What do you think?
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