Game detail: 01 Mar 2024, Belfast Giants - Coventry Blaze

01 Mar 2024, 19:00 | Regular season | SSE Arena Belfast

Belfast Giants

5-1

Coventry Blaze

Periods:
Shots:

0-0
(6-10)

2-1
(18-12)

3-0
(13-3)

Total: 37-25

Referees: Dalton/Vytas Lukosevicius (LTU) | Spectators: 7298

23:38	\|	away	\|	\|	0-1	\|	Mitch Cook (Ian McNulty, Blake Thompson)
27:03	\|	home	\|	\|	1-1	\|	Matthew McLeod (Kohei Sato, Charles Curti)
29:08	\|	home	\|	\|	2-1	\|	Dan Tedesco (Ciaran Long, Ben Lake)
43:57	\|	home	\|	\|	3-1	\|	Blake Speers (Will Cullen, Jacob Friend)
46:21	\|	home	\|	\|	4-1	\|	Ben Lake (Jacob Friend, Will Cullen)
54:19	\|	home	\|	\|	5-1	\|	Kohei Sato (Oliver Cooper, Jeff Baum)

Belfast Giants

Coventry Blaze

Name		G		A		PIM		+/-
Jeff Baum	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Travis Brown	\|		\|		\|		\|
Oliver Cooper	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Will Cullen	\|		\|	2	\|		\|	2
Charles Curti	\|		\|	1	\|		\|
Jacob Friend	\|		\|	2	\|		\|	2
David Goodwin	\|		\|		\|		\|
Ben Lake	\|	1	\|	1	\|		\|	2
Ciaran Long	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Bobby MacIntyre	\|		\|		\|	4	\|	1
Matthew McLeod	\|	1	\|		\|		\|
Ara Nazarian	\|		\|		\|		\|	1
Sean Norris	\|		\|		\|		\|
David Phillips	\|		\|		\|		\|	1
Josh Roach	\|		\|		\|	2	\|
Kohei Sato	\|	1	\|	1	\|		\|	1
Blake Speers	\|	1	\|		\|		\|	1
Dan Tedesco	\|	1	\|		\|		\|	3

Name		G		A		PIM		+/-
Carter Allen	\|		\|		\|		\|	-3
David Clements	\|		\|		\|	2	\|
Mitch Cook	\|	1	\|		\|		\|	-1
John Curran	\|		\|		\|		\|	-3
J.D. Dudek	\|		\|		\|		\|	-4
Chase Hartje	\|		\|		\|		\|	-2
Jack Hopkins	\|		\|		\|		\|	-1
Tyler Kirkup	\|		\|		\|	2	\|
Danny Kristo	\|		\|		\|		\|
Alexander Kuqali	\|		\|		\|		\|
Alessio Luciani	\|		\|		\|		\|	-1
Ian McNulty	\|		\|	1	\|		\|	1
Brady Norrish	\|		\|		\|		\|
Nathan Ripley	\|		\|		\|		\|
Kobe Roth	\|		\|		\|		\|	-1
Kim Tallberg	\|		\|		\|		\|	-2
Blake Thompson	\|		\|	1	\|		\|

Belfast Giants

Coventry Blaze

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
Andrew Dickson	\|		\|		\|		\|
Jackson Whistle	\|	25	\|	1	\|	60:00	\|	96.00

Name		SA		GA		MIN		%
William Bray	\|		\|		\|		\|
Taran Kozun	\|	37	\|	5	\|	60:00	\|	86.49

7,298 fans saw Belfast Giants take part one of their double-header weekend with Coventry Blaze on Friday night.

With the opening period scoreless, the SSE Arena crowd had to wait until the 24th minute to see a goal - and when it came, it went to the visitors. Mitch Cook had two bites at a rebound from Blake Thompson's shot before getting the puck over Jackson Whistle's pad and into the net. A little under five minutes later, the Giants were level as Kohei Sato's wonderful pass put the puck straight on Oliver Cooper's stick to level in close at 27:03. Daniel Tedesco gloved the puck down and backhanded past Taran Kozun to put the Giants ahead at 29:08 after which Danny Stewart called his timeout.

Two goals in the opening seven minutes of period three put the game beyond the Blaze. Blake Speears made it 3-1 at 43:57, followed by former Blaze forward Ben Lake adding the Giants' fourth with just under 14 minutes to play. Kohei Sato rounded off the win with 5:41 left.