Clan survive late Stars fight back

Glasgow Clan got their second straight Cup victory with a 5-4 over Dundee Stars on Tayside. Former Star Lucas Brine backstopped the Clan to the win in his second start of the season.

"I thought we played great for 55 minutes, and then at the end there I don't know if we were just tired or maybe tried to do a bit much but we let it get away from us a bit but it was a great win" said the Clan goalie post-game.

Brett Gravelle opened the scoring just shy of six minutes into the game with Jake Elmer setting up Brett Gravelle at the far post for a high finish past Brine. Clan were level at 9:51 off a Liam Finlay point shot that he scooped into the corner of Richard Sabol’s net.

Keaton Jamieson was the beneficiary of a fortunate bounce and then calmly beat Sabol to put Clan ahead 2:59 into period two, before Finlay doubled the lead at 35:19 when he backhanded home in front off Rylan Schwartz' throw to the front of the net from below the goal line.

As things seemed to be slowly ticking down to a Clan victory in the final period, there was a flurry of scoring with five goals in as many minutes. Gary Haden put the Clan three ahead at 55:45 in the slot, but Domenico Alberga pulled one back 33 seconds later to keep things a two-goal game. Deven Sideroff then responded 11 seconds after to make it 5-2, while Jonathan McBean was left all alone in the slot to score 29 seconds later and make it 3-5 – and still with 3:02 to play.

Alberga nicely set up Zach Tsekos for a back-post finish to make it 4-5 with the empty net at 59:10, but that was as close as the Stars could get, leaving Clan with a road win that ended a little more uncomfortably than it perhaps should have been.

“Obviously I've always loved Dundee, they were great to me last year, and I'm sure some people aren't too happy about it, but I'm pretty happy to get a win here” added Brine on his team’s win.