Time once more for your preview of the next set of Sheffield Steelers games.
The games are coming thick and fast as the season heads towards it's final two months. Steelers are on the fringes of the title race, perhaps that blip in form proved costly after all. But no game is an easy game despite what people might think.
Saturday night sees the team on the road, here:
A trip back down to Buckinghamshire to face Pete Russell and his Milton Keynes Lightning. In their last meeting down here, Lightning took the Steelers apart with a 7-2 dismantling that left the sizeable away following very disgruntled indeed. It was also the final game of Andre Deveaux's short spell as a Steeler as he was released by the Club a few days later. Steelers will be hoping for better fortunes this time around for sure.
However, despite their lowly position of 11th, Lightning are not as bad as it appears to be. They have some good quality in their side who will take advantage if you are not on your game. Added to that there's the goaltending of Miika Wiikman but the former Panthers netminder may be a doubt after being carried off in the 7-3 loss to his old club last Sunday. Jordan Hedley deputised for the remainder of that game and could be called upon again when Steelers roll into town.
After this game, which should be a tense one, there's a tough Erhardt Conference game in the House Of Steel on Sunday as we entertain a team that has had our number quite a lot this season.
It's the Giants, which means a return to the Arena for the defenceman that most Steelers fans cannot abide: Spiro Goulakos. Giants this season have been very successful against the Steelers, winning every game bar one which was the first game of the double header in the "O" at the start of this month. They have done this and are chasing down leaders Cardiff in the race for this season's Monteith Bowl, personally I do think it will be between these two come the final standings.
The visitors also have the mercurial and talismanic figure of the evergreen Colin Shields, who had a short but less than successful spell here in Sheffield. Shields always seems to turn it on when he faces us and can be guaranteed to either score or assist on a goal, perhaps one day I'll put a bet on him to do this and make some money out of him. A win for the Steelers would certainly increase the confidence in the team which has been a welcome change in fortunes.
My predictions? Steelers to win in Milton Keynes, possibly 5-3 and then to take two points off the Giants albeit in overtime. I'm going for 3-2 with that one? How do you see them unfolding?
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