17 Aug 2019 | Pre-season | Sheffield Arena |
Sheffield Steelers | 7-4 | HK SKP Poprad |
Periods: Shots: | 0-2 ( - ) | 5-1 ( - ) | 2-1 ( - ) |
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Referees: Pering/Smith  |  Spectators: 1500 |
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A bizarre game at ice Sheffield saw the Steelers come from three down to beat Slovaks HK Poprad. The visitors led by two after the opening period, and then went three ahead 25:45 into the game thanks to Andreas Štrauch.
Sheffield’s fightback started at 27:41 thanks to Brendan Connolly, and when Tanner Eberle and Anthony DeLuca struck 28 seconds apart the hosts were level by 29:45.
Goals from Marc-Olivier Vallerand and Connolly again followed to put the Steelers 5-3 ahead after 40 minutes, while Nikolai Lemtyugov and Jonas Liwing struck either side of Petr Kundrik’s goal in the third to seal a 7-4 win.
Goals:
Sheffield: 27:41 PP Connolly (Dowd), 29:13 PP Eberle (Meland, Davies), 29:45 DeLuca (Johnson), 35:08 Vallerand (Dowd), 39:11 PP Connolly (Vallerand, Brocklehurst), 52:57 Lemtyugov (DeLuca), 58:47 Liwing (DeLuca)
Poprad: 03:55 Mlynarovič (Svitana), 07:04 PP Leclerc (Brejčák, Paukovček), 25:45 PP Štrauch (Brejčák), 57:59 Kundrik
PIM: 66-43
SoG: 35-67