Flyers score four straight, come back to beat Storm

Photo: Mark Ferris

Fife Flyers logged their first win since 1 December 2024 with a comeback win in Manchester, beating Storm 5-4 at an almost sold-out Storm Shelter.

The result marked the first win of Johnny Curran's coaching career.

The only goal of the opening 20 minutes came just before the half-way mark of the period.

Joe Morrow jumped into the play and snapped a shot to beat Janis Voris high at 9:55.

Fife had an excellent chance to get back into things on their first powerplay of the night 9:40 into period two - but it backfired as Storm rushed up ice and Loren Ulett's strange shot got past Voris to make it 2-0 shorthanded at 31:01.

Voris made one of the poke-checks of the season, rushing out to deny a Storm breakaway just over the blue line moments later. However, a tic-tac-toe play involving Jake Durflinger and Grant Hebert was finished by Ryan Hughes at 32:49 to put Storm three ahead - also prompting the Flyers into a time-out.

The Flyers pulled a goal back with 1:41 left in the period through Michael Cichy to put themselves just two behind heading into the third.

Hughes struck against 3:24 into period three which looked to have made things more comfortable for Storm, however Noah Delmas scored just 35 seconds later to make it a two-goal game again. On the powerplay, the puck was nicely worked to Lucas Chiodo at the farp ost to beat Evan Weninger at 51:19 and get the Flyers back to within one. Then, 83 seconds later, a neat Ryan Foss pass set up Kieran Craig in front to slot home and tie the game.

It got even better for the visitors on a late powerplay as Cichy got the puck over the line in a scramble around the net to put the Flyers into the lead with only 2:03 to play. Storm pulled Weninger for the final 82 seconds, but they couldn't beat Voris for a fifth time and the Flyers celebrated a long-awaited win.