Glasgow Clan logged their first win in virtually a month as they snapped a dropping streak with an additional time victory over Fife Flyers at Braehead Enviornment on Friday evening. The Flyers fought again from three down and compelled additional time with a last-minute equaliser to deservedly take a degree.
Glasgow received off to an ideal begin, leaping out to a 2-0 lead because of objectives from Deven Sideroff and Austin Mitchell-King, who scored his second EIHL aim. Clan carried the play via the opening body, outshooting Fife 18-10.
“We felt like this was a must-win sport for us,” defined Clan defenceman Steven Seigo. “We’ve been on a little bit of a skid recently and so this sport was a testomony to seeing what sort of a gaggle we now have within the room. I like the best way we got here out and the way we began.”
The center interval changed into a special-teams battle, with Fife taking a string of penalties earlier than Glasgow prolonged their result in 3-0 on a power-play aim from Jason Fram. Momentum then shifted because the Flyers struck twice on the person benefit via Ethan Somoza, earlier than Logan Neilson fired a one-timer previous Sami Aittokallio quick facet to make it a one-goal sport by 35:44.
Fife accomplished the comeback 1:47 into interval three via former Clan ahead Keaton Jameson. The sport stayed tied for below 4 minutes till Seigo restored the Clan lead with slightly below quarter-hour to play. Neilson hit the crossbar because the Flyers virtually tied the sport shorthanded, whereas Somoza almost redirected a Giordano Finoro move previous Aittokallio moments later.
“We had some lulls in our sport there like we’ve been having previously few weeks,” admitted Seigo. “However we caught collectively, and it confirmed what sort of a gaggle we now have to come back out on high on this sport.”
The Flyers lastly levelled the sport with 52 seconds remaining. Jameson received an offensive zone faceoff and Josh Winquist fired the puck previous Aittokallio to make it 4-4. Brady Danger virtually received it for the Clan within the dying seconds, however Shane Owen held agency.
With the scores tied after 60 minutes, the groups headed to additional time with Clan holding a 54-31 shot benefit. Simply 36 seconds into the additional interval, a wonderful stretch move from Seigo despatched Brett Neumann in alone to beat Owen five-hole and seal the victory for Glasgow.
The groups meet once more in Fife on Saturday evening. “It’s one other must-win sport for us. We’ll method it the identical manner we did at this time and need to get a very good consequence,” concluded Seigo.
Photograph: Al Goold
