Tuesday, 20 February 2018

The Junior Report - Edition 20


Warm appreciation to George for his latest contribution to FSB, All credit for this piece goes to him.


The Sheffield Steelers were up against a Guildford Flames side who were certainly doing better than expected domestically at the Arena on Saturday night. As far as 3-2 games go, this was tedious to watch. No real fight, fast skating, and we only managed to scrape a one goal margin, past a team that have spent almost their entire existence in what was the English Premier League. Nevertheless two points is two points and this is how it unfolded. 

In the first period, which was very slow starting, the Steelers were very shot shy and a bit boring to watch. Flames defended pretty well, but did nothing in the offensive zone in terms of chance creating. The Steelers weren’t good defensively. Coughing up too many chances, which nearly proved costly. However Andreas Jรคmtin decided to open the scoring with 5 minutes left in the first. He snapped a wrister past the impressive Brian Stewart, who’s return to the arena was actually really welcoming to see. Nevertheless the Steelers were up by a goal, well they were until a minute to go when the Flames tied it up, a big scramble in front of Mustukovs fell to the stick of ... the scramble came from a big shot from the blue line, hitting Mustukovs chest and then falling stupidly kind for the Flames goalscorer. 1-1. 

The second period was as dull as the first. John Dunbar was on hand to slot home past Mustukovs after a Flames player drove the net, knocked Mustukovs off balance leaving a wide open cage for Dunbar to slot into. 2-1 flames. Later in the period, after a long period of defending for the flames, Levi Nelson skated through the defence, and unleashed a wrister high over the blocker of Brian Stewart, making it a tied game at 2 with five minutes to go in the period.

This game was one of them, next goal wins it. As soon as a team scored a goal, there was going to be no way back for the other. We found this out when Eric Neiley roofed over the top of Stewart after a Jonas Westerling back door feed. This won the game for the Steelers. A tidy finish by Neiley won the game. Although it was boring throughout, it did the job. The Steelers winning 3-2 against a good Guildford Flames side.

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