Steelers cruise past Flyers

Photo: Dean Woolley

A comfortable home win for Arron Fox's Sheffield Steelers against the Fife Flyers was the outcome on Wednesday night's only fixture.

The Steelers thought they'd scored early on but the goal was ruled out for a high-stick. However, Kevin Schulze was given too much space short side to slot past Shane Owen with just over 12 minutes gone to open the scoring for the hosts who never looked back after taking the lead. 

Shane Owen pulled off an incredible diving save to keep the Flyers within one, but less than two minutes later his efforts were in vain as Tabber Eberle capitalised on a rebound from a David Phillips shot to make it 2-0 at 17:46.

Three goals in just over as many minutes towards the end of the second period killed the game off for the hosts. Anthony DeLuca's wrist shot at 35:20 found its way past Owen with a little help from either the post or Matias Sointu, with Adrian Saxrud Danielsen adding a fourth 75 seconds later. Justin Hodgman's near pass set up Sointu for a back-post finish with 1:12 left in the period to put the Steelers 5-0 ahead.

Anthony DeLuca rounded off a comprehensive win for Sheffield 67 seconds from the final buzzer as the Steelers took another two points and moved four clear at the top of the Premier Sports Elite League table.

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