Saturday: Full schedule as second half of season begins
Photo: Dean Woolley
It's a full schedule of games on Saturday night in Week 19 of the 2024/25 Elite Ice Hockey League season.
Following Friday night's fixtures, we're now over halfway through the 270 league figures in the regular season. Tonight sees games 138-142.
Belfast Giants and Nottingham Panthers face off in part two of their weekend double-header. The teams headed into the weekend second and fourth respectively, with the Giants staying three points off the lead with Friday's 2-0 win.
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In Glasgow, Clan are on home ice for the second time in 24 hours with the visitor of Guildford Flames to Braehead Arena. This is not the re-arranged fixture that had to be postponed before Christmas, but rather was already in the schedule. Guildford are a place above the Clan, with tonight's game going a long way to deciding if the gap will be extended or shortened heading into the final part of the season. Clan missed the chance to cut that points difference on Friday night against Cardiff.
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Manchester Storm welcome Cardiff Devils to Altrincham as the Devils play their second road game in as many nights. Storm won both games last time out and cut the gap on the playoff places back to a point by winning in Dundee, plus also have four games in hand over the Stars. Cardiff started the week with a three-point lead at the top of the table, but having played two games more than Belfast they a little room for slip-ups. They came back from two goals down to win in Glasgow on Friday.
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It's Pride Night in Sheffield as the EIHL's 2025 Pride games begin over January. Game officials will be wearing their special pride jerseys, which are proud to carry the name of Switchboard, the UK's national LGBTQIA+ Support Line. The league's best team over the last five games with consecutive wins, Sheffield Steelers welcome a Coventry Blaze side to the Utilita Arena that's only managed two victories over the same period. Some big wins over Christmas and New Year kept the Steelers' title hopes very much a live, and they now sit six points off the pace with a pair of games in hand. Coventry's four-point weekend in Week 18 kept them fifth, with Guildford Flames just one point back.
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In Fife, the Flyers play hosts to local rivals Dundee Stars from 7.15pm. The Flyers were narrowly beaten by Coventry Blaze on home ice last weekend, and have started to put some very encouraging performances together. Dundee came out of Cardiff last weekend with their first win in five years, but a home loss to Manchester left disappointment after the weekend. Both sides need points on the board, quickly, in the race for a playoff place.
