Panthers comfortably beat Flyers for first league win

Nottingham Panthers picked up their third point of the weekend, and first win in the league, with a comfortable victory over Fife Flyers on Sunday afternoon.

The visitors were down to just five regular defensemen and nine forwards for the trip south, which saw them fall behind to an Ollie Betteridge shot through a screen at 11:38. Shane Owen in net thought he'd been interfered with and got coach Tom Coolen to challenge the goal, but without success. The Flyers killed off the resulting penalty, but were two down at 17:16 as Kristoff Kontos snuck a shot through Owen's five-hole.

Sam Herr made it 3-0 9:41 into period two when he followed up a Didrik Henbrant breakaway, took the pass behind the net and slotted into an open net. Two quick-fire goals then killed off the game before the middle period was out. Kontos fed Hugo Roy on a 2-on-1 for the latter to beautifully deke Owen and make it 4-0 at 36:43, while 56 seconds later Tim Doherty one-timed Quinn Wichers' feed into the top of Owen's net.

Lucas Chiodo got the Flyers on the board 54 seconds into the final period, but that was as good as it got for the visitors who were well beaten by the final buzzer.