The Night of the 21 #ForAmy

The Night of the 21

So the Sheffield Steelers are your 2014/15 Elite Ice Hockey League Champions and it's not secret that the players, staff and fans all wanted this championship for Amy Usher who recently passed away and everyone knows that the number 21 was significant to her and Saturday was no different with Amy looking down on the Steelers as they went into their final league game of the season knowing a win would see them lift the league title.

The game was blighted with the number "21". It was all done for Amy and in her memory the Steelers went and won the league and dedicated it to her and it was all done on the 21st March with the game finished at 21:21; the final score was 2-1. Jeff Legue scored the game winning goal and his number backwards is 21, It was also Legue's 10th of the season assisted by Hill for his 11th assist so 10+11=21, Josh Unice made 21 saves on the night. It was the Steelers 21st home league win in regulation and Steelers forward Tyler Mosienko who wears #21 was celebrating his birthday. The officials involved in the game well their numbers 27+9+25+23 divided by 4 (how many of them there is) all came to 21.

So as you can see "21" was absolutely everywhere. The Sheffield Steelers definitely had an angel looking down on them.

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Match Report: 21.3.2015 - Steelers v Devils EC/EIHL

Saturday 21^st March 2015 – Sheffield Steelers (34-13-4) v Cardiff Devils (33-13-4) @ Motorpoint Arena. Face-off: 7pm, Erhardt Conference/Elite League

Sheffield Steelers – 2
Robert Dowd – 2^nd
Jeff Legue – 3^rd

Cardiff Devils – 1
Carl Hudson – 1^st

Final game of the league season and the Steelers knew that if they won they’d win the league. It didn’t start all too well for them though when at 10:39 Cardiff took the lead when Carl Hudson assisted by Morissette and Lord had the puck just inside the Steelers zone and managed to his snapshot off that went through traffic and beat Unice down low and that’s how it stayed going into the break with at times Ben Bowns making some outstanding saves to keep his team in the lead going into the 1^st interval.

End of the 1st Period: Sheffield Steelers 0–1 Cardiff Devils

Shots on Goal: Steelers 9-6 Devils

Into the second period and Steelers found a way to cause some serious problems for Cardiff with them having all the momentum and they made it count at 27:19 when Jonathan Phillips was played the puck by Mosienko in between the circles in the Devils zone and he miss-fired his slap shot that slid towards goal and Dowd managed to get hold of it and with Bowns trying to get the puck down low Dowd just shot high and the game was level at 1-1 and then that brought on all the teddies with it being teddy bear toss which was a shame as it killed all the momentum the Steelers had but Sheffield held their nerve and they went into the break level at 1-1 with just twenty minutes left to win the title.
End of the 2nd Period: Sheffield Steelers 1–1 Cardiff Devils

Shots on Goal: Steelers 11–12 Devils

Biggest twenty minutes of the season so far and it was just a perfect defensive display by the Steelers. Steelers took the lead at 45:06 when Legue saw his original shot saved by the blocker of Bowns, Phil Hill went to the corner and through the puck on goal that bounced awkwardly for Bowns and Legue was able to back hand it into the net for a 2-1 lead. Steelers defended valiantly and they worked as a team, Devils pulled Bowns with 55 seconds left in an attempt to level the game but it just wasn’t meant to be and Sheffield held on to the win the game which crowned them 2014/2015 Elite Ice Hockey League Champions and it was a game blighted with “21”. It was all done for Amy and in memory of Amy and the Steelers won the league on the 21^st March with the game finishing at 21:21; the final score was 2-1. Legue scored the game winning goal and his number backwards is 21, It was also Legue’s 10^th of the season assisted by Hill for his 11^th assist so 10+11=21, Josh Unice made 21 saves, It was the Steelers 21^st home league win in regulation and Mosienko who wears #21 was also celebrating his birthday so it was all about the number 21 and it was all for Amy
Shots on Goal: Steelers 5–4 Devils

FINAL SCORE: Sheffield Steelers 2–1 Cardiff Devils

Boxscore (1st-2nd-3rd-OT-[PIM]-{PP}-S)

Sheffield  - 0-1-1-0-[2]-{0/0}-25

Cardiff     - 1-0-0-0-[0]-{0/1}-22

Sheffield Man of the Match: #75 Robert Dowd
Cardiff Man of the Match: #33 Ben Bowns

Sheffield Points Round Up: - 5 Points
Jeff Legue (1+0), Jonathan Phillips (0+1), Tyler Mosienko (0+1), Phil Hill (0+1), Robert Dowd (1+0)

Cardiff Points Round Up: - 3 Points

Carl Hudson (1+0), Jake Morissette (0+1), Andrew Lord (0+1)

Referee: #27 Mike Hicks

Referee: #9 Tom Darnell

Linesman: #25 Andy Dalton

Linesman: #23 Lee Young

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