Clan come from behind, hold on against Panthers

Photo: Al Goold

Glasgow Clan came from two behind and scored four straight goals to take control against Nottingham Panthers, but were left holding on at the end to claim a 4-3 victory at Braehead Arena in front of 3,549 fans.

Hunter Vorva made his debut for the Panthers after than injury in pre-season that kept him out for three months. He watched on as his team took an early lead with Hugo Roy firing past Landon Bow at 2:57 after excellent work on the play by Didrik Henbrant.

It was a lead that the visitors doubled early in period two. Otto Nieminen firing high past a screened Bow at 24:30 to put the Panthers 2-0 up.

Things unravelled for the Panthers in just over a two-minute spell in the latter half of the period. Tic-tac-toe passing from Liam Finlay and Tyson McLellan set up Cole Ully for a back post tap in to bring Clan back into the game at 31:05. 126 seconds later, while Mitchell Heard was in the box for Cross-Checking, Rylan Schwartz broke free and beat Vorva shorthanded to tie the game in a period where the Panthers saw shots from Roy and Logan Neilson come back off the iron.

Clan won the opening faceoff in the third and were ahead just six seconds later - Steven Seigo setting up Ully for his second of the night to put Clan ahead. Mitchell heart then beat Vorva blocker side at 46:11 to make it 4-2 with the home side's second powerplay goal of the game. Matt Alfaro finished well to bring the score back to 4-3 just under two minutes later to give the sizable Panthers travelling support hope that their own comeback might be on.

In the final stages, Vorva was pulled for the extra skater but 57 seconds of 6-on-5 didn't find them an equalser, and Clan took the league points.