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Chieftains end season unbeaten at home
The home league campaign ended for the Chieftains on Saturday night in front of 1000 fans in a packed Riverside ice rink when local rivals Romford Raiders visited. The Chieftains had the best of the play for the first 2 periods and were 3-1 up with about 10minutes to play but allowed the Raiders back into the game.
Tom Long netted early after Matt Turner created the chance and then Alex Green placed a shot past visiting netminder Michael Gray to put the Chieftains 2-0 up inside the first 10minutes. Jason Buckman managed to get a shot past Ben Clements very early in the second period and then a wonder goal came from Danny Hammond. Hammond picked the puck up in his own zone and skated behind his net with it and within a few seconds he was the other end of the ice bearing down on replacement netminder Glenn Jackson having skated through the Romford skaters with ease and finished off in style. Romford battled back and the two import players Pierre Wilhelmsson and Juraj Huska tied it up in just over a minute. Coach Dean Birrell, speaking after the game said, “Yes it’s a draw, but it’s a defeat in my books. We gifted them that point. Our defence made mistakes, our goalie made mistakes, our forwards made mistakes, I made mistakes. It’s very disappointing and there are no smiles in the locker room. We’re all hurting after that. We should have put them away and we didn’t”.
Sunday was a fairly routine game for the Chieftains as they headed down to the West Country to play the Swindon ENL Wildcats. Captain Danny Wright led from the front with 2 goals, while Hammond, Long. Ross Brears, Blaho Novak, BT Williams and Kyle Jones all scored single markers in an 8-1 rout.
The Warriors had the chance to influence who will get promoted to League 1 and by beating Solent & Gosport Devils and they did with goals from Richard Whiting, Jerry Pavlus and Paul Merchant to round out the Warriors season in a 3-2 win which means the Warriors will finish their season a very respectable 6th. This result means the Devils must now win their final game to go up, as opposed to being promoted had they beaten the Warriors.
Next week the Chieftains head to Bristol on Saturday and then Swindon on Sunday to finish their league games off and then they return the Riverside the week after for the start of the playoffs against a yet to be determined opponent.
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- Clarke back at Chieftains helm
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- Double delight on Saturday
- Chieftains advance to playoff semi-finals
- Chieftains miss out on title but set sights on playoffs
