14 Jan 2024, 17:30 | Regular season | SkyDome Arena |
Coventry Blaze | 5-4 OT | Fife Flyers |
Periods: Shots: | 0-1 (17-5) | 3-2 (14-9) | 1-1 (14-5) | 1-0 (1-0) | Total: 46-19 |
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Referees: Wells/Anderson  |  Spectators: 1718 |
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Goals and assists
Coventry Blaze came back from three goals down en route to a 5-4 overtime win over Fife flyers at the Skydome on Sunday.
A
turnover in the Blaze's own end led to the Flyers going ahead at 5:07 -
Casey Gilling worked the puck wide to Lucas Chiodo who set up Johan
Eriksson at the far post to open the scoring.
Fife doubled
their lead 2:31 into period two with Eriksson this time turning provider
for Chiodo with a pass into the slot form the end boards. Things got
better for the visitors 75 seconds later when Chiodo tipped a Vitalijs
Pavlovs shot in front of Kozun to make it 3-0.
David Clements'
nice pass set up Kobe Roth for a tap-in at the top of Kevin Lindskoug's
crease to get the Blaze on the board a little over two minutes later,
before a flurry of the goals swung the momentum back in favour of the
hosts. Brady Norrish brought it back to 2-3 at 35:04 with a JD Dudek
powerplay goal tying things up at 36:34. With 1:17 left in the period, a
Dudek shot hit either the crossbar or the back bar of the net, but play
continued - only the intermission buzzer gave the game officials a
chance to go to check the video, but the in-arena review was unable to
offer them the play.
Fife went back ahead early in period three
through the always-impressive Troy Lajeunesse, but Mitch Cook's first
goal of the regular season brought the scores back level before the
48-minute mark.
For the second night in a row, the Flyers headed
into overtime - and, for the second night in a row, they found
themselves on the wrong end of the deciding goal.. Blaze captain Brady
Norrish won it with a shot that tricked past Lindskoug and over the line
to earn Coventry the bonus point.