Sunday's results: Flames get 4-point weekend
Photo: Oliver Dixon
Sunday's games saw three road wins, while Guildford were the only team to win a home game this weekend in the Elite League.
- Dundee Stars 2-5 Coventry Blaze
- Glasgow Clan 0-7 Cardiff Devils
- Guildford Flames 5-2 Fife Flyers
- Manchester Storm 1-5 Belfast Giants
Coventry Blaze avenged a home defeat to Dundee Stars on Saturday by going up to Scotland and beating the same team 5-2 on Sunday night. Kobe Roth tapped home a rebound at 14:54 to score the only goal of the opening period, but two inside ten second-period minutes put the Blaze in control - Danny Kristo at 23:58 and then Alessio Luciani on another rebound at 32:23 making it 3-0. Brendan Harms got the hosts on the board 23 seconds into the final period, only for Ian McNulty to put the visitors back three ahead with 8:21 to plat. Harms netted again with six minutes to play, but Kristo rounded off the Blaze's road win into the empty net with 95 seconds remaining.
Belfast Giants bounced back from their first defeat of the season to beat Manchester Storm 5-1 in Altrincham, cutting the gap on the top two to just one win. Goals 50 seconds apart form Ciaran Long and Travis Brown helped the visitors into a two-goal lead after the opening period, and although Mitchell Martan pulled one back for Storm at 32:25, Ara Nazarian's response 43 seconds later crushed the home side's momentum. Quinn Preston netted both of the Giants' goals in the third to seal the victory.
Cardiff Devils' response to a home loss to Manchester on Saturday was a thumping 7-0 victory over Glasgow Clan at Braehead Arena. Jamie Arniel finished low past Jake Kielly at 6:34 to open the scoring, with Brandon Alderson slapping home a Tyler Busch faceoff win for a 2-0 lead at 7:25. Evan Mosey finished off a Cody Donaghey pass to put the visitors three up after just one period. Josh Waller and a Tyler Busch double put the Devils out of sight across a 90-second spell in period two with Busch then completing a natural hat trick at 38:56. That was where the scoring stopped with Cardiff in no danger of losing through the final 20 minutes.
Guildford Flames were the only team to both win a home game this weekend, and pick up four points, getting past Fife Flyers 5-2. The Flames had the perfect start through Peter Crinella with only 93 seconds played, but were pegged back by Aleksi Makela on the nine-minute mark. 26 seconds later, Crinella thought he'd scored but the goal was challenge by Tom Coolen and then washed out for Goalie Interference from Brett Ferguson. New Flames signing Austin Glover put the hosts back ahead with 4:55 left in period one. Crinella extended that lead to 3-1 4:11 into period three, while Reece Harsch and Bradley Lalonde scored 60 seconds apart to take the scoure out to 4-2. Ferguson set up Owen Griffiths for the empty net goal with 1:38 remaining to confirm the win.
