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Newcastle Vipers 11 - 5 Edinburgh Capitals
Photograph from the Newcastle Vipers v Edinburgh Capitals challenge game courtsey of Paul Lynch.
The new era for the Winn Solicitors Vipers got underway with a goal-filled, highly entertaining pre-season match with Edinburgh Capitals on Saturday night.
Both teams were missing their starting goalie, while the Caps were also down to six imports.
The visitors opened the scoring after just 66 seconds through David Lomas. The first Newcastle goal of the season was scored by the returning local boy-made-captain Paul Sample, on the powerplay.
Edinburgh jumped to a 3-1 lead with a quickfire double before Patrik Forsbacka reduced the arrears before the first interval.
The middle session was pretty much one-way traffic as the Vipers outshot their guests 17-5 and netted five without reply.
Forsbacka notched his second on the powerplay at 23.11 before Jamie Carroll opened his account before the half hour and Vipers were ahead 4-3, and never looked back.
Another powerplay marker, this time from Dan Speer made it 5-3 on 32 minutes, with the same player on target two minutes later for a 6-3 scoreline.
There was still time before the second interval for giant Finn Forsbacka to slam home his hat-trick goal at 36.20 and through forty minutes the home team were 7-3 to the good.
Player coach Danny Stewart capitalised on a powerplay at 45.49 for his first score in Vipers colours, before the Caps snapped a run of six straight Newcastle goals with Adam Taylor's score on 50 minutes.
Less than a minute later, though, Speer became the second Viper to record a treble for 9-4. Edinburgh's David Lomas was then thrown out with a 5+game for checking from behind, and on the extended powerplay Stewart (55.08) and Forsbacka (56.34) brought the home team into double figures.
The final word of the night was Edinburgh's, a scrambled effort by Martin Cingel with 1.7 seconds remaining in the game.
All in all an encouraging start, with the Vipers having had just two on-ice sessions before the game, and with a full week of practice ahead of the League openers with Sheffield.
Vipers are in Edinburgh on Sunday for the return challenge match (6.00pm).
The next action at Hillheads sees the Vipers clash with Whitley Warriors on Wednesday night (7.30pm) before the big Ice Wars home opener against Sheffield Steelers next Sunday, face off is 5.30pm.
Scoring: Forsbacka 4+0, Speer 3+1, Stewart 2+1, Carroll 1+5, Sample 1+0, Hartmanis 0+3, Mahovsky 0+2, Rzeszutko, Schwarz, Sibley, McAllister 0+1. Net: McAllister 22 shots, 17 saves.
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