Belfast Giants will host Cardiff Devils twice in successive nights on the SSE Enviornment this weekend, beginning on Friday evening for half certainly one of their double-header.
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A month or so in the past, this might would have been the challengers going through the league leaders. Nevertheless, rather a lot has occurred in that point, and we now go into the sport with the Giants on prime and the Devils 11 factors behind with two video games in hand. Including additional drama to those fixtures is the Giants’ 13-minute collapse final weekend in Sheffield which noticed a two-goal lead flip right into a 5-2 defeat, now leaving them simply 4 factors forward of the defending champions after the Steelers’ midweek win.
The Giants do, nonetheless, go into this weekend’s fixtures having not misplaced to Cardiff this season. They gained an October assembly 1-0, and have come away from Wales with two wins since, certainly one of which was in additional time – the one group this season with a 100% document over the Devils. If the Giants come by way of Wednesday’s Problem Cup second leg towards Nottingham Panthers, these two groups may also be contesting the ultimate of that competitors.
Cardiff added ahead Benjamin Almquist midweek, and he’s eligible to ice for the Devils.
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