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Flames solidify summit position with pair of wins
Less than 2 minutes into overtime, returning favourite Jozef Kohut, in his first game with the club in nearly 4 complete seasons, bagged his 2nd goal of the night to help lift the Flames to a 5-4 road win over Slough Jets. They returned to Spectrum one evening later and, with fewer than 6 minutes on the clock, a Nathan Rempel goal at the tail end of a Flames powerplay broke open a nail-biting 2-2 tie before Rick Plant added an empty net goal in the dying seconds to double up Milton Keynes Lightning 4-2. The head to head wins helped Surrey’s side solidify their position on the table summit. Despite the way things ended on Saturday, it was the home side who got an early start with a Doug Sheppard goal at 3:32 to take a lead that stood the test of 1st period time. Just 12 seconds into the middle session they doubled their advantage on the back of an Adam Calder strike, but the Flames cut that margin in half through Plant only 37 seconds later. They evened the score on a powerplay converted by Branislav Kvetan at 30:36 before Kohut bagged his first with his new club less than a minute after that to serve up a Flames lead. The Jets brought the game even when they hit back in the 33rd minute thanks to Darius Pliskauskas. Rempel scored at 34:47 to put Surrey’s side in front yet again, but an Aaron Connolly marker inside the stanza’s final 2 minutes set up a winner take all remainder. A scoreless final session prompted extra time and the Slovak forward’s game winning strike at 61:49. Milos Melicherik put the Flames on the board first against Milton Keynes when he converted a rebound just over 2 minutes from opening period time. Blaz Emersic pulled the Lightning even at 32:52, but a Kohut goal just 12 seconds later put the Flames in front again. Not to be outdone in the quick reply department, the Lightning pulled even 34 seconds beyond that with an Adam Carr strike that sent the clubs to the final period level at 2 apiece. As time ticked away in the final stanza, overtime appeared to loom before Rempel’s decider, and the empty net insurance, assured a 4 point weekend haul against a pair of league challenging clubs.
Flames Head Coach Paul Dixon weighed up the value of these particular games:
“You don’t need to follow all that closely to realise how important these games were, so to get 4 points was a massive boost to what we are trying to accomplish. Obviously Slough is right with us in the table standings so it was important to try and keep a degree of distance. Often on the road you go into overtime thinking that you already have a point so no matter what happens you have done a job, which is often true, but with the particular specifics involved here that extra point was very valuable for both sides. We were either creating a bit more room between ourselves and a real contender, a 5 point gap, or allowing them to creep that much closer to a 3 point gap with a game in hand. That one goal made a big difference and we are glad to have put it in our totals. It was a similar circumstance against Milton Keynes, again another good team breathing down our necks, and we got a bit of timely scoring just when it was needed the most and suddenly there is a 10 point rather than 6 point spread between us. Having said all that, with 2 months to go there is obviously a great deal of challenge ahead, but when you look at it 1 game at a time, we leave this particular weekend buoyed by the results.”
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