Pre-season wins for Devils, Giants and Steelers

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Saturday's pre-season action saw big wins for the Belfast Giants and Cardiff Devils, while the Sheffield Steelers came from behind to earn a shootout victory.

Jeff Mason's return to Belfast didn't end well. The new Dundee Stars Head Coach saw his team ship four goals inside 11 minutes at the SSE Arena saw Ben Lake, David Gilbert, Jeff Baum and Tyler Soy all needed inside 10:41. Period one ended with the Giants 5-2 ahead. Hugo Reinhardt's marker at 35:17 brought the Stars back to within two, but an almost immediate response from Gabe Bast had the Giants back three goals ahead. David Goodwin, Lake and Ciaran Long all netted in period three with Romans Semjonovs adding Dundee's fourth as they went down 9-4.

In Cardiff, Manchester Storm led three times before going down 8-3 to the Devils. Ryan Barrow, Tyson Fawcett and Stephen Johnson all put the visitors ahead over a 23 minute spell, but goals from Josh Waller, Josh Brittain and Ryan Penny brought the Devils level each time. Cole Sanford and Ben Davies put the hosts two up after the second period, while three goals inside four minutes from Brodie Reid, Justin Crandall and Penny again made things comfortable for the Devils in their first win of pre-season.

Nottingham and Sheffield contested their first pre-season game and it turned out to be a rollercoaster for both sides. Mike Hammond opened the scoring just 52 seconds in. and although Adam Raska cancelled that goal out, Adam Brady had the Panthers back ahead at 11:50. Martin Latal levelled for the Steelers, but Stephen Andersen and Matthew Myers both netted before the first intermission to give the Panthers a 4-2 lead. It took until the final ten minutes for the Steelers' fightback to come through - Evan Mosey getting them back into things with 9:50 to play before Raska tied the game at 56:26. With no winner in overtime, the game was decided on penalty shots - Daniel Ciampini was the only scorer through three rounds, and when Brett Welychka failed to score it allowed Raska to net the winner in round four.

Documents

• Gamesheet: ex4-carman (*.pdf, 445.3 KB)
• Gamesheet: ex5notshe (*.pdf, 446.3 KB)
• Gamesheet: ex3beldun (*.pdf, 444.3 KB)