10 Feb 2024, 19:15 | Regular season | Fife Ice Arena |
Fife Flyers | 9-7 | Nottingham Panthers |
Periods: Shots: | 2-3 (11-15) | 2-2 (15-12) | 5-2 (15-18) | Total: 41-45 |
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Referees: Brown/Ferguson  |  Spectators: 1517 |
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Goals and assists
Fife Flyers came from behind, lost leads, and eventually came out
of top of a 15-goal thriller on Saturday night in Kirkcaldy against
Nottingham Panthers.
Simon Despres opened the scoring with 130
seconds played with a well-taken wrist shot from the slot, while Hugo
Roy was left all alone to double that lead at 4:20. Jonas Emmerdahl shot
through a screen to get the Flyers back into the game with 6:03 gone,
while the hosts were then level thanks to Teemu Pulkkinen with 2:15 left
in the period. That lead didn't hold, however, as Mike Caruso scored
from the point on a delayed penalty to put the Panthers one up at the
break.
Jake Ryczek extended that lead to 4-2 but two goals in
seven minutes brought the Flyers lever - Troy Lajeunesse at 331:03 and
then Max Humitz's slapshot with 1:59 left in the period. The Pantehrs
went back ahead at 39:11, however - Alexander Lunsjo's shot was
initially waived off but the officials went back to check the video some
30 seconds later and saw the puck had hit the back bar, and gave the
goal.
With the Panthers leading 5-4 head into int period three,
there was a goal rush in the opening ten minutes. Myles McGurty put them
6-4 ahead 67 seconds into the period, only for Pulkkinen to hit back 45
seconds later.
Two goals in 49 seconds then flipped the game.
Max Humitz banked one in off Mike Robinson from below the goal line to
tie things at six each, before Lajeunesse fired a one-timer into the net
at 48:37 to put the Flyers into their first lead of the night. This
time it was the Panthers who hit back thanks to Logan Neilson's first
professional goal at 50:11, but Johan Eriksson had the Flyers back in
front as he got goal side of Ryczek in front to tap home off Lucas
Chiodo's pass. Lajeunesse completed his hat trick with 1:46 to play to
settle the scoring.