It’s midweek hockey, and it’s an enormous one on the SSE Enviornment in Belfast on Wednesday night time.
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Second-placed Belfast Giants host third-placed Coventry Blaze at 7pm with each groups search for that early benefit forward of a packed Christmas schedule.
The Giants have received 5 straight video games together with shutting out defending champions Sheffield Steelers 3-0 on Sunday, and a 6-1 win in Coventry the week earlier than that. Adam Keefe’s facet have scored 25 objectives throughout these wins, conceding simply seven.
Coventry Blaze responded to a zero-point weekend by thrashing two Scottish groups in Week 15. They beat Dundee Stars and Fife Flyers each by a rating of 7-1 to place themselves again into the highest three.
Each groups have had wonderful goaltending of late. Tom McCollum has the league’s second-highest save proportion on 92.24%, adopted carefully by Mat Robson on 92.13%.
The Blaze additionally boast two of the league’s high level scoters – Alessio Luciani with 24 ponits in 18 video games, and Nick Seitz on 23 factors over the identical interval. Giants’ Elijiah Barriga additionally sits in equal third with the identical return as Seitz.
Photograph: William Cherry
