Dundee Stars logged their first win in Cardiff since 2021 with a 4-2 win over the Devils at a sold-out Vindico Enviornment on Friday evening.
A aggressive opening interval ended scoreless. Such was the open nature of the interval, with massive spells with out whistles, it took simply 26 minutes to finish. Cardiff’s finest probability to open the scoring fell to Josh MacDonald who simply couldn’t carry the puck over Richard Sabol, whereas on the very subsequent shift Philippe Sanche hit a publish with one of the best alternative for the Stars.
33 seconds into interval two the Devils took the lead. MacDonald did nicely to win the puck on the blue line, skated into the zone, and backhanded the puck over Sabol to open the scoring. Two and a half minutes later, the Stars had been degree, nonetheless. A Ben O’Connor shot was stopped by Carruth however the rebound solely bought so far as Zach Tsekos earlier than it was put residence at 23:02.
Dundee had been rising in confidence and took the lead at 29:24 – whereas the Devils killed off Reid Duke’s hooking minor, eight seconds after it expired they might solely look on as Cole MacDonald discovered area and fired residence a Keanu Yamamoto feed to place the guests forward. MacDonald drew one other good save out of Sabol earlier than the interval was out, with the Stars main 2-1.
Simply over six minutes into the ultimate interval, Kameron Kielly batted the puck residence off a rebound to place the Stars two forward. The same play from Reid Duke bought the Devils again to inside one with 3:45 to play, however with 94 seconds of empty internet time the Devils failed to bother Sabol as they pushed for an equaliser. Dundee added an empty-netter on the buzzer that was finally deemed to have entered the web earlier than time expired, and the Stars took a 4-2 win.
Photograph: James Assinder
