Sunday 19th October 2014 – Cardiff Devils (3-4-1)
v Sheffield Steelers (5-0-0) @ Big Blue Tent. Face-off: 6pm, Erhardt
Conference/Elite League
Cardiff
Devils – 5
Brent Walton PP
Jake Morissette
Mark Richardson PP
Brent Walton
Jake Morissette EN.SHG
Sheffield Steelers – 2
Tyler Mosienko
Jason Hewitt
Part two of the weekends clash with Cardiff meant this time we faced them in
the Big Blue Tent, Cardiff has Hudson and Hendrikx missing and Sheffield were
still without Dowd and Morency but it was the home side who was looking for
revenge after the defeat in Sheffield 24 hours earlier and it was the Devils
who started the better of the team and really controlled a large portion of the
game as Doyle was very busy earlier on but Sheffield did create offence of
their own but Bowns would stand in their way, the game like the night before
was physical as Devils were throwing in a lot of hits and Sheffield didn’t seem
to want to throw hits but there was a coming together between Haddad and
Latulippe early on as the Steelers forward avoided a hit of Haddad and Devils
man didn’t like the fact Latulippe moved but on 7:02 Cardiff would have a power
play attempt and it would work a treat as Doug Clarkson had possession of the
puck in the Sheffield zone before throwing the puck in front of goal for Brent
Walton to snipe a one timer past Doyle for 1-0 lead. Sheffield couldn’t
re-organise themselves after that and Cardiff came straight back at the
visitors and made them pay on 8:36 just 38 seconds since the first goal when
Batch showed great persistence to start the attack the Devils as Morissette
tucked one under the arm of Doyle from the right hand circle for 2-0 score line
assisted by Martin and Lord. So a terrible couple of minutes left Sheffield
with a lot of work to do and didn’t make thing easier for themselves on the
Powerplay after a poor turnover let in Joey Martin on the breakaway but he
couldn’t make it 3-0 and saw his shot saved by Frank Doyle and it wouldn’t be
his first breakaway but still wouldn’t be able to score his second but
Sheffield were finding ways to attack through Roy, Fretter and Mosienko but
Bowns was in fantastic form to turn their shots away but Sheffield were definitely
having an off night so far went into the break 2-0 down with a lot of work to
do in the 2nd.
End of the 1st Period: Cardiff Devils 2–0 Sheffield
Steelers
Shots on Goal: Devils 8–9 Steelers
Second period got underway and Gerad Adams had tried shifting his lines about
after they seemed to be ineffective in the first period Steelers were also
playing another man down as Sarich wouldn’t Ice for the remainder of the game
for a reason that I can only guess is injured related but nothing was announced
by the Steelers but Mosienko would be called early on for tripping which was a
penalty he didn’t need to take as he was offside anyway but on 23:14 Richardson
was passed the puck at the back door and he nicely slotted the puck under the
pads of Doyle to give the Devils a 3-0 lead. Almost straight away Cardiff was
again on the PP which was unfortunate as it should have most probably gone the
other way. Sheffield would kill the penalty but the game could have been out of
sight for Sheffield if it wasn’t for Frank Doyle who made some massive saves to
try and keep his team in this and Sheffield were starting to come into this
game as first Hay saw his shot blocked before Bowns had deny both Roy and O’Connor
in the dying seconds of the period but Cardiff were taking a very comfortable 3
goal lead into the third period.
End of the 2nd Period: Cardiff Devils 3–0 Sheffield Steelers
Shots on Goal: Devils 9–8 Steelers
Sheffield came into the third period needing a big
final twenty minutes to have any chance of getting back into this game and
Steelers started in the right fashion as Roy, Latulippe and Eddy all saw their
shots saved but Sheffield finally get themselves on the board after great work
by Fretter he forced a pad save out of Bowns which then allowed Mosienko to
shoot in the rebound to bring the Steelers within two goals on 44:12. Cardiff
would have another 5 on 3 chance but some fantastic penalty killing by the
Steelers left the visitors in with a chance in this game but with Sheffield
pressing well penalties were coming from an incident including Forney and Roy
which isn’t good to have your top two point scorers in the penalty box when
your trailing but on 51:23 and even handed Devils were looking for another goal
and they eventually found it when Steelers failed to clear the zone Tyson Marsh
had the puck on his stick on the blue line before shooting on goal through
traffic and Brent Walton got a tip on it to score his second of the game and
put it through the five hole of Doyle to restore the 3 goal lead but it didn’t
the Steelers long to strike back after a fantastic shift by Ben O’Connor he
played the puck from the right of goal on the boards to Hewitt at the back door
who fired a one timer past Bowns at 52:37 to bring the Steelers back within two
goals. Cardiff would have another 5 on 3 power play after poor discipline by
the Steelers was costing them tonight but nothing would come of it and Sheffield
would continue to press high and Frank Doyle was pulled at 58:46, but with an
empty net to shoot at and shorthanded Jake Morissette found himself all alone
on the breakaway after Sheffield failed to keep it in the zone and the Devils
forward slotted into the empty net to give Cardiff the 5-2 victory which was Sheffield’s
first league defeat of the season.
Shots on Goal: Devils 9–12 Steelers
FINAL SCORE: Cardiff Devils 5–2 Sheffield Steelers
Boxscore (1st-2nd-3rd-OT-[PIM]-{PP}-S)
Cardiff - 2-1-2-0-[14]-{2/8}-26
Sheffield - 0-0-2-0-[30]-{0/5}-29
Cardiff Man of the Match: #17 Mark Richardson
Sheffield Man of the Match: #15 Mathieu Roy
Cardiff Points Round Up:- 15 Points
Mark Richardson (1+0), Brent Walton (2+0), Tyson
Marsh (0+2), Joey Haddad (0+1), Jake Morissette (2+0), Chris Culligan (0+1), Andrew
Lord (0+1), Jesse Mychan (0+1), Joey Martin (0+3), Doug Clarkson (0+1)
Sheffield Points Round Up:- 6 Points
Mathieu Roy (0+1), Jason Hewitt (1+0), Tyler Mosienko (1+0), Dustin Kohn
(0+1), Colton Fretter (0+1), Ben O’Connor (0+1)
Referee: #26 Dean Smith
Referee: #49 Roy Stian Hansen
Linesman: #25 Andy Dalton
Linesman: # Haavar Dahl
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