The Junior Report - Edition 5

The latest column from one of our Junior Members, hope you enjoy the read.

The last game before Colton Fretter returns was a comfortable Saturday night one. It saw the Steelers bypass the Manchester Storm in the Challenge Cup easily with a 3-1 scoreline. The score certainly flattered the opposition, who probably didn’t even deserve a goal. The Steelers however could have been 6 up. Before the game the arena fell silent for the annual remembrance, and even more before the game the Steelers played a video of Steve Edwards singing which was very touching.

The first period was pretty flat, with not much to cheer about, until Levi Nelson decided to roof one. He found space in the slot and fired past Clementè to give the Steelers a one goal lead. The Steelers were looking massively on top, with the Storm looking very lacklustre. However, the Steelers at the minute have been very good, they look very sharp and skate strongly which makes opponents seem uneasy. Yet massively against the run of play, the Storm equalised through Ciaran Long. He found time and space in front of Mustukovs thanks to a Wallace slip, and he slotted it in. 1-1.

The amount of times Steelers have done this is impressive, concede and then score pretty much straight away. Andrè Deveaux put one in on net and Andreas Jämtin tipped it in out in front. Clementè was doing his usual, moaning at the referee, but this time it wasn’t enough as Hogarth pointed to the centre spot after reviewing goal line technology. The Steelers third goal was a thing of beauty, it was good play, but it completely the Storm's fault. There is an old saying “play to the whistle”. Not stop and moan at the referee because he hasn’t pulled up a clean hit, just get on with it and once the play is dead then moan. However, the Storm paid the price. A big goalmouth scramble led to it, and Deveaux was not missing from 4 feet out. 

3-1 was the final score at the Arena and the Steelers move onto the Challenge Cup quarter finals, hopefully against Dundee. Yet the Storm are now out of the competition with just the league and playoffs now in contention for them. 

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