Welcome to Frozen Steel Blog's weekly round-up of the rest of the action in the Elite League.
The week started on Tuesday night when Steelers overcame the visiting Dundee Stars at Ice Sheffield, 8-2. It was a sensational win for Paul Thompson's side as a splendid first period where they lit the lamp five times without reply, and scored one of the best goals of the season so far thanks to Brady Ramsay. So much for Omar Pacha's "plan" to win against the Steelers for the first time in 20 games.
Moving forwards, there were 4 games in the Elite League on Saturday and 2 in the Challenge Cup. Whilst the Steelers were losing in Northern Ireland, Braehead produced one of their best performances in recent times to overcome the Panthers 5-3 in the NIC. Inspired by an outstanding performance by netminder Ryan Nie; who saved 50 out of 53 shots; and a sensational second period where they scored three unanswered to overturn a 2-1 first period deficit. Elsewhere there was a goal fest in the Storm Shelter where Storm edged past league newcomers Guildford by the odd goal in eleven after overtime. Flames' pain was compounded by the loss of starting goalie Brian Stewart midway through the second period with an unknown injury.
Coventry's recent good form was halted by an Andy Iles inspired Fife Flyers in Kirkcaldy. Iles recorded a 43 save shutout to propel the Flyers to a 2-0 home win and deny Danny Stewart a win on his old stomping ground. Milton Keynes continued their decent start to life in the Elite League as they recorded 5-2 home win over last season's treble winners Cardiff in the Challenge Cup. Devils were undone by three former players: Carl Hudson, Guillaume Doucet and Denny Kearney who scored four of the five strikes past Ben Bowns. In the other game, Dundee defeated Edinburgh 4-3 after a four round shootout in the DIA: Marc-Olivier Mimar the only one to score.
Onto Sunday, Braehead completed a four point weekend as three goals in the first two periods did the job in Murrayfield. Capitals did pull one in the third period through Sergei Banashkov but John Tripp's team were the ones celebrating at the end. Cardiff's indifferent start to the season continued as they were comprehensively beaten 6-1 at Ice Arena Wales by Ryan Finnerty's Manchester Storm. Storm were 5-0 ahead by the time Devils opened their account, and Bowns had been replaced by Thomas Murdy before the game had reached halfway. Former Fife Flyer Chris Auger scored a well taken hat-trick to silence the majority of the 2672 crowd and send the Storm faithful back happy.
Panthers again were made to work hard for the points against Guildford, a 3-2 after penalty shots win secured by Josh Shalla's effort in the third round of the shootout. This was a game that Panthers had led 2-0 going into the final twenty, only for John Dunbar to secure a point for the Flames (missing Stewart after his injury the night before) with just 19 seconds left in regulation time. And finally, Milton Keynes completed a wonderful weekend for themselves with a 7-4 win in the SkyDome. Kearney had a four point individual night as Lightning scored five unanswered strikes after conceding an early goal to former Steeler Luke Ferrara.
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