Game detail: 26 Dec 2019, Sheffield Steelers - Manchester Storm

26 Dec 2019, 16:00 | Regular season | Sheffield Arena

Sheffield Steelers

7-0

Manchester Storm

Periods:
Shots:

2-0
(5-7)

2-0
(9-14)

3-0
(10-8)

Total: 24-29

Referees: Tom Darnell/Blake Copeland | Spectators: 8427

03:15	\|	home	\|		\|	1-0	\|	Anthony DeLuca
05:24	\|	home	\|		\|	2-0	\|	Anthony DeLuca (Jonathan Phillips, Tanner Eberle)
34:11	\|	home	\|		\|	3-0	\|	Brendan Connolly (Anthony DeLuca, Eric Meland)
37:12	\|	home	\|		\|	4-0	\|	Marc-Olivier Vallerand (Anthony DeLuca, Brendan Connolly)
41:07	\|	home	\|		\|	5-0	\|	Marc-Olivier Vallerand (Anthony DeLuca, Josef Hrabal)
44:47	\|	home	\|	PEN	\|	6-0	\|	Anthony DeLuca
54:39	\|	home	\|		\|	7-0	\|	Anthony DeLuca (Marek Trončinský)

Sheffield Steelers

Manchester Storm

Name		G		A		PIM		+/-
Aaron Brocklehurst	\|		\|		\|	2	\|	2
Brendan Connolly	\|	1	\|	1	\|		\|	4
Michael Davies	\|		\|		\|	2	\|
Anthony DeLuca (MoM)	\|	4	\|	3	\|		\|	5
Robert Dowd	\|		\|		\|		\|
Tanner Eberle	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Alex Graham	\|		\|		\|		\|
Josef Hrabal	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	3
Janne Kolehmainen	\|		\|		\|		\|
Nikolai Lemtyugov	\|		\|		\|	2	\|
Eric Meland	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	2
Ben O’Connor	\|		\|		\|		\|
David Phillips	\|		\|		\|		\|
Jonathan Phillips	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Lucas Sandström	\|		\|		\|		\|
Cole Shudra	\|		\|		\|		\|
Marek Trončinský	\|		\|	1	\|	2	\|	3
Marc-Olivier Vallerand	\|	2	\|		\|		\|	4

Name				PIM		+/-
Jared Aulin	\|	\|	\|		\|	-2
Declan Balmer	\|	\|	\|	2	\|	-1
Cameron Critchlow	\|	\|	\|	2	\|	-2
Dallas Ehrhardt	\|	\|	\|	2	\|	-1
Tyson Fawcett	\|	\|	\|		\|	-2
Mathieu Gagnon	\|	\|	\|		\|	-2
Raymond Grewal	\|	\|	\|		\|	-3
Kyle Hope	\|	\|	\|		\|	-3
Jacob Lutwyche	\|	\|	\|		\|
Mario Puskarich	\|	\|	\|		\|	-2
Henrik Samuelsson	\|	\|	\|	2	\|	-1
Scott Simmonds	\|	\|	\|		\|
Zach Sullivan (MoM)	\|	\|	\|		\|	-1
Cody Thompson	\|	\|	\|	2	\|
Layne Ulmer	\|	\|	\|		\|
Finlay Ulrick	\|	\|	\|		\|

Sheffield Steelers

Manchester Storm

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
Tomas Duba	\|	29	\|	0	\|	48:29	\|	100.00
William Kerlin	\|	0	\|	0	\|	11:31	\|

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
Matt Ginn	\|	23	\|	6	\|	48:29	\|	73.91
Adam Long	\|	1	\|	1	\|	11:31	\|

Sheffield Steelers gave their fans an excellent Christmas Present with a 7-0 home win over Manchester to stay top of the Elite League.

The opening goal came at 3:15 - Manchester guilty of turning the puck over in the offensive zone and Anthony DeLuca made no mistake with a backhanded finish. That lead became two just 2:09 later with DeLuca’s second of the night as he beat Ginn top shelf.

Brendan Connolly and Marc-Olivier Vallerand got a goal each as the Steelers moved to a four-goal lead through two periods to take total control of the game. Vallerand added a fifth 1:07 into the final period before DeLuca took over - the forward scored at 44:47 and 54:39 to record four

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