Here's our match report from Sunday's game at Edinburgh against the Capitals.
Having scored seven at home on the Saturday night against Guildford, Steelers were on the road again on Sunday and north of the border to face basement club Edinburgh Capitals at Murrayfield. It was a potential banana skin as Capitals could take any side down if their opponents are off their game plan, but Steelers were hoping this would not be the case. Steelers team news read as you were from the Guildford match which meant Cole Shudra continued in a forward role. Capitals were understrength, as they have been for the majority, but had a new face in goal for the Steelers fans to see for the first time: former DEL goalie of the year Tyler Beskorowany who was also a second round NHL draft pick in 2008.
The game didn't start the way that Paul Thompson and the Steelers wanted as the home side opened the scoring at 2:18, former Chicago Blackhawk Pavel Vorobyev scoring through the five hole of Ervins Mustukovs. It was one of just five shots on the Steelers goal in the opening twenty minutes. On the other hand, Steelers were dominant in offence with Beskorowany being the busier of the two goaltenders for sure. However, by the conclusion of the opening period Steelers had racked up 20 shots on the home goal but astonishingly enough the Capitals still led by that single goal. Was a surprise on the cards?
Five minutes into the second period, the dam broke and as a result the floodgates as well. Andreas Valdix with the feed and Shudra fired home his first ever Steelers goal. Yet the wait for a second goal took six and half minutes, this time Matt Marquardt with the supply and the impressive Eric Neiley scored his third Steelers goal past the Capitals netminder. A minute and half later it became 3-1, Mathieu Roy continuing his good run of goals with the final finish after Miika Franssila and Colton Fretter had set him up: it was Mathieu's 17th of the season and 5th in as many games. Then with just 1:25 left in the period, Steelers scored their fourth of the night. Beskorowany denied Liam Kirk but the youngster showed great intelligence and set up his mate Shudra to tap home and double his goal tally.
The final period was a bit more closer as Edinburgh battled away for a bit more reward but their short bench was still prone to creaking more goals and sure enough, the Steelers scored a fifth: this time at 48:36. Marquardt had been working hard all night and he got on the scoresheet eventually with an angled finish for his 16th of the season. Yet we had a bit of a wait for goal number six, Marquardt scoring his second goal and third point of the evening with a top shelf finish beyond Beskorowany at 58:07: goal number 17 of the season for the Canadian power forward. A minute later, Steelers went seven up for the second night running. Shudra picking up a loose puck and then dancing his way through the Capitals defence before sweetly finishing for a well deserved hat-trick goal and setting a new Steelers record for the youngest player to score an EIHL treble.
Time for the statistics:
Goals: Capitals 1 Steelers 7
Steelers Scoring: Shudra 3+0, Marquardt 2+1, Matheson 0+3, Aarssen 0+2, Wallace 0+2, Roy 1+0, Neiley 1+0, Valdix 0+1, Kirk 0+1, Franssila 0+1, J.Phillips 0+1, Fretter 0+1, Westerling 0+1.
Capitals Scoring: Vorobyev 1+0, Cazzola 0+1, Plews 0+1.
Shots On Goal: Capitals 21 Steelers 54
Powerplay: Steelers 0 from 2 (0% conversion), Capitals 0 from 2 (0% conversion)
Penalty Minutes called: Steelers 4 Capitals 4
Steelers Goaltender Stats: Mustukovs 20 Saves (917), GAA: 1.00 (2.23), Save Percentage: 95.20% (92.30%).
Man of the Match: Cole Shudra (Steelers), Mike Cazzola (Capitals)
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