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Flames take win in Sheffield
Photograph of Guildford's Nathan Rempel scoring against the Peterborough Phantoms copyright of Alan Bone.
The Flames took on the Sheffield Steeldogs for the 2nd consecutive time on Saturday night, this time on the road, but despite a change of venue and a change of score, the ultimate outcome was the same with the Flames recording a 3-1 win. They followed up their initial success with a 6-1 win at home against Peterborough Phantoms.
In the weekend closer, Nathan Rempel, who became the club’s first 50 goal scorer in a decade with his 2nd of the evening, began the offensive show in the 18th minute, helping the home dwellers to a lead at the break. At 25:16 Andrew Hemmings extended the margin to a pair and Milos Melicherik increased the gap to 3 just 61 seconds after that. Lukas Smital put up the 4th of the night just past the midway point before the Phantoms finally replied on a powerplay at 33:07 to cut the lead back to 3. Another Melicherik marker, though, less than 2 minutes later re-stored the wider margin ahead of the final period. Rempel’s milestone goal, ironically a number he last surpassed as a member of the Phantoms in 2008-2009, arrived at 49:11 while shorthanded to finalise the result.
One sundown earlier, Rick Plant had the only goal of the 1st period when he put the travellers up by 1 at 9:02. A Martin Masa powerplay goal just 38 seconds into the middle frame doubled the advantage before Ben Campbell tripled it 90 seconds after that. In the 26th minute Jann Ozolins got one back for the ‘dogs who went to the final break down by a pair, but the clubs then traded a scoreless period each to settle the game with the scoring that was already in the books.
Paul Dixon, Head Coach, commented on the weekend:
“It is a good time to have strung together a run of 4 wins to gather some confidence and a momentum drift as we head into a tough stretch. We have some key games ahead now with the cup semi final where we have a great deal of work to do if we have any chance of advancing to the final to defend our title. Then beyond that we play a stretch against the leagues’ top half clubs, a couple of whom are breathing down our necks for higher table seeding ahead of the playoffs. It is very important that we have some degree of success to hold our place in the table, and also to secure season head to head series advantages which may come into play if tiebreaking policies are required for any final table positions. I thought this weekend we played well on both accounts. We have been much more composed in our defensive zone and we have been able to use that to ignite the attack which has allowed us to be the dominant team on a more consistent basis in terms of territorial play and shots on goal. Hopefully we can keep that up on Wednesday, when we really need an enormous offensive showing while keeping a lid on things at the back.
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