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Lightning leave it late - but take the spoils!
Adam Carr and Blaz Emersic were the heroes with the winning penalty shots as Lightning edged out Basingstoke Bison 3-2 at the Thunderdome.
But Lightning had to do it the hard way after going down 2-0 in the first period before fighting back to tie the first session 2-2. Amazingly there were no further goals in the following two periods of regulation time and five minutes of overtime. The game was just 88 seconds old when Nick Poole was called for tripping to give Bison a powerplay from which Nicky Chinn tipped in a long shot from Mindy Kieras – strangely the goal being credited to Kieras.
There was no such doubt about Bison’s second goal by Ollie Bronnimann at 5mins 29secs following some poor defending by Lightning. Exactly four minutes later though Lightning cut the deficit when Adam Brittle seized on the loose puck after a fumbled save by goalie Dean Skinns and planted it home.
An altercation between Michael Wales and Ciaran Long saw both despatched to the penalty box in the 14th minute. As Wales emerged from the sin bin he made the pass to Adam Carr to fire home for the equaliser on 17mins 1secs. Gary Clarke should have done better when presented with a great chance early in the second session while just before the midway point Kurt Reynolds’ effort hit the pipework and bounced out.
Lightning outshot Bison 17-7 in the second session but had nothing to show for their efforts.
In the third period Clarke went close to taking revenge in the best possible way after he was charged by Kieras but his shot was well saved. At the other end Viktor Kubenko had a great effort stopped by goalie Barry Hollyhead. With no further goals the game went into overtime which again produced no result and thus it was down to penalty shots with Carr scoring and Bronnimann having his saved. Blaz Emersic then scored high into the net before Hollyhead’s save from Ondrej Lauko sealed the two points for Lightning.
On Saturday, Lightning’s league rivals Slough Jets dealt a major blow to any lingering hopes Lightning have of retaining their English Premier League title when they emerged 7-4 victors at The Hangar.
After a goalless first period which was probably shaded by Lightning the visitors fought back from going 4-1 behind in the middle session to go in level at 4-4 at the second break. But any chances of the Lightning revival continuing in the third were snuffed out with three unanswered goals by the hosts.
Blaz Emersic was given a warm welcome by fans on his return to the club he left a few weeks ago. But that was as far as the generosity went with Jets players doing everything they could to close him down. The middle period was just 29 seconds old when Adam Calder netted for Jets. Lightning got back on term with Lewis Christie setting up Gary Clarke after 24mins 40secs. But just 14 seconds later Darius Pliskauskas put the home team back in front and then just 1min 6secs after that Doug Sheppard got the assist as Calder bagged his second of the game. Things got even worse with Aaron Connolly making it 4-1 after 27mins 19secs.
Then came the big Lightning fightback with Nick Poole the provider for Adam Carr on 29mins 17secs. Joe Greener was called for roughing in the 34th minute, from which Leigh Jamieson fired in on the powerplay at 35mins 33secs. Twenty six second later Michael Wales tied the game up from Michael Farn’s pass. Sheppard edged Jets in front at 49mins 31secs and then added another to make it 6-4 on 52mins 12secs.
In the final seconds Lightning withdrew goalie Barry Hollyhead for the extra skater and Slava Koulikov was able to capitalise with an empty netter five seconds from the buzzer.
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4-4 |
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2-4 |
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5-2 |
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3-7 |
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1-1 |
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