Giants double up on Flames

Photo: William Cherry

Belfast Giants secured a four-point weekend with their second 3-1 victory over Guildford Flames in successive nights, seen by 6,872 at the SSE Aeena.

As he had done on Friday night, Kohei Sato opened the scoring for the Giants, this time one-timing Ciaran Long's pass past Eamon McAdam wit h10:40 played. This time, however, the Flames were able to answer back quickly - Pete Crinella shooting high past Jackson Whistle in the circle to tie things just 31 seconds later. 

Former Flame Daniel Tedesco put the Giants back ahead 5:27 into the middle period which also saw both teams take several penalties with a large portion of the final six minutes played 4-on-4.

On the 48-minute mark, with eyes distracted on a big hit by Kyle Locke in the crease, Will Cullen beat McAdam from a bad angle to put the Giants up by two. Brett Ferguson was later ejected for Roughing as the Flames tried to chase the game, but it was not to be as the Giants took another two-goal win.