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Flames find offense to halt winless streak
After an offensive shortage and a 3 game winless streak, one that included a 7-1 defeat Saturday night in Milton Keynes, it was finally raining goals at Spectrum on Sunday as the Flames and Swindon scored 11 between them, 9 of them recorded on the home side of the scoresheet in a 9-2 Flames win over the visiting Wildcats. The floodgates opened at 8:34 when Milos Melicherik scored the opener before David Savage added another at 11:42. Martin Masa made it 3-0 in the 15th minute. A Lukas Smital shorthanded goal at 28:42 made it 4-0 ahead of a perfect feed from Melicherik to a waiting Nathan Rempel whose one time blast beat Geoff Woolhouse to take the tally to 5 just ahead of the second break. Masa added a powerplay goal at 46:47 and Rempel made it 7-0 15 seconds after that. At 51:17 the Wildcats finally got one back when Raimond Danilics fired a shot over the shoulder of Dean Skinns. Jozef Kohut bagged his club’s second of the night with a goal in the 56th minute, but Rob Lamey answered that one by re-directing a Ben Austin shot inside the final two minutes of play to complete the win.
24 hours earlier, coming off a pair of losses, 3 first period Milton Keynes goals commenced a merciless Lightning attack that added 4 more in a 7-1 finish. Ross Bowers opened the scoring just under 5 minutes in on a powerplay. Leigh Jamieson put them up 2-0 at the period’s halfway mark before a Michael Wales goal just 28 seconds later finished the period’s offence. Nathan Rempel got the Flames on the board with a powerplay goal in the 33rd minute to pull the score back to 3-1, but the home team responded with their own powerplay; Bowers re-storing the 3 goal cushion before the final stanza. Another 3 goal period for Milton Keynes began at 43:41when Andre Smulter netted their 5th. A powerplay goal by Lukas Zatopek at 46:18 and a Bowers hattrick strike just over 4 minutes from time brought an end to a difficult and disappointing evening for Spectrum’s outfit.
Flames Head Coach Paul Dixon discussed the weekend and the lessons from the recent dry spell:
“Sometimes winning and losing is not a technical issue, but rather a matter of how guys are feeling about themselves and how those issues affect the outcome of their effort on the ice. Saturday night was no doubt a rather low point for this club at this stage in the season. It was an important game that we believed we were ready to play. We had a great week of intense training and I know everyone was looking forward to a key head to head meeting with one of the table topping teams. To put in the performance we did was indescribable disappointment. On reflection, looking back at how we came out even in warm up, we realise that we were simply too uptight and the team that turned up at Milton Keynes was not even a shadow of the team we saw all week at practice. We put too much pressure on ourselves to make up for a couple of losses the weekend prior. Anxiety is exhausting, and you simply cannot compete at any decent level when it is strangling a large part, or all, of a team. Sometimes the most important thing a player can do is relax and remember to enjoy playing. It is a job, and we all have responsibility for the success of this team, but at the end of the day it is something we all love to do and, like any job, taking enjoyment from what we do is part of doing our best. I think the guys got that a bit better on Sunday and were able to step back and get a bit of perspective. Dropping a couple of games is not an emergency and the last thing we need is panic, which is part of what we think has hampered us of late. We are not expecting to get 9 goals every night, nor are we going to win every game from here on out. What I do expect is for us to learn from the experience of the last 2 or 3 weeks about evaluating our situation, taking any lessons we can and then, crucially, turning the page and moving on in time to have a fresh take on what is ahead of us rather than what is behind us. Hopefully, that will help us meet the potential that we know this roster has.”
Photo attached of Nathan Rempel in the process of taking one of the team’s 40 shots on Swindon netminder Geoff Woolhouse. Woolhouse got the better of the deal on this occasion, but Rempel won the night, scoring on two other attempts and adding an assist in the win. Photo by Alan Bone.
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