05:41	|	away	|		|	0-1	|	Patrick Dwyer (Darcy Murphy, Blair Riley)
09:16	|	away	|		|	0-2	|	Patrick Dwyer (Blair Riley, Darcy Murphy)
13:32	|	away	|		|	0-3	|	Jonathan Boxill (Jonathan Ferland, Jim Vandermeer)
19:14	|	away	|	SHG	|	0-4	|	Patrick Dwyer
21:17	|	away	|		|	0-5	|	Jonathan Ferland (Chris Higgins, Curtis Leonard)
36:43	|	home	|		|	1-5	|	Alex Nikiforuk (Ross Venus, Thom Flodkvist)
41:05	|	home	|		|	2-5	|	Ben Lake (Justin Haché, Alex Nikiforuk)
55:06	|	away	|	EN	|	2-6	|	Darcy Murphy (Patrick Dwyer, Blair Riley)
55:31	|	away	|		|	2-7	|	Colin Shields (Jonathan Ferland, Chris Higgins)

Name		G		A		PIM		+/-
Nicolai Bryhnisveen	|		|		|		|
David Clements	|		|		|		|
Timothy Crowder	|		|		|		|
Luke Ferrara	|		|		|		|
Thom Flodkvist	|		|	1	|		|
Dominik Florian	|		|		|		|
Alexander Forbes	|		|		|		|
Justin Haché	|		|	1	|		|
Jake Hansen	|		|		|		|
Chris Joyaux	|		|		|		|
Ben Lake	|	1	|		|		|
Dillon Lawrence	|		|		|		|
Trey Lewis	|		|		|		|
Kevin Morris	|		|		|		|
Alex Nikiforuk	|	1	|	1	|		|
Kevin Noble	|		|		|	5	|
Shawn Pauly	|		|		|		|
Ivan Puzič	|		|		|		|
Ross Venus	|		|	1	|		|

Name		G		A		PIM		+/-
Kyle Baun	|		|		|		|
Jonathan Boxill	|	1	|		|	19	|
Patrick Dwyer	|	3	|	1	|	2	|
Jonathan Ferland	|	1	|	2	|		|
Mark Garside	|		|		|		|
Chris Higgins	|		|	2	|		|
Lewis Hook	|		|		|		|
Curtis Leonard	|		|	1	|		|
Kendall McFaull	|		|		|		|
Darcy Murphy	|	1	|	2	|		|
Kevin Raine	|		|		|		|
Blair Riley	|		|	3	|		|
Josh Roach	|		|		|	2	|
Colin Shields	|	1	|		|		|
Jordan Smotherman	|		|		|		|
Paul Swindlehurst	|		|		|	2	|
Jim Vandermeer	|		|	1	|		|

 

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
Matt Hackett	|	14	|	5	|	21:17	|	64.29
Jordan Hedley	|	10	|	1	|	36:36	|	90.00

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
Tyler Beskorowany	|	28	|	2	|	60:00	|	92.86
Stephen Murphy	|		|		|		|

 

Title chasers Belfast Giants kept the pressure up on league leaders Cardiff Devils by winning their de facto game in hand this evening live on FreeSports.

An explosive opening period from the visitors saw them head in to the first break four goals ahead at the Skydome. Patrick Dwyer scored his and the Giants’ first 5:41 into the game as he batted home a rebound through Matt Hackett’s five-hole. A perfect pass from Blair Riley found Dwyer for a far-post tap-in at 9:16, before poor rebound control from Hackett gave Jonathan Boxill the puck on a plate to slot home at 13:32. Dwyer then completed a first period hat-trick with 46 seconds left in the opening session as he pounced on a bad turnover from the Blaze in their own zone, and beat Hackett on the rebound with a nice move to score shorthanded.

Blaze Head Coach Danny Stewart’s intermission team-talk was undone 77 seconds into period to as Jonathan Ferland made it 5-0, but that goal was the last for the Giants for a while. Alex Nikiforuk got the Blaze on the board at 36:53, and then 65 seconds into the final period Ben Lake cut the deficit back to 2-5. The Blaze on a man advantage chose to pull Matt Hackett in favour of the extra attacker with well over five minutes to go – after missing a couple of chances, the Giants finally put the game well and truly to bed through Darcy Murphy at 55:12. Colin Shields added to his Elite League record points total with the final goal of the game at 55:31 to complete a 7-2 win for the Giants.