10 Feb 2024, 19:00 | Regular season | Sheffield Arena |
Sheffield Steelers | 3-0 | Manchester Storm |
Periods: Shots: | 2-0 (16-9) | 1-0 (21-6) | 0-0 (9-3) | Total: 46-18 |
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Referees: Miller/Dalton  |  Spectators: 7836 |
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Goals and assists
A shutout vistory over Manchester in front of 7,836 fans saw Sheffield Steelers go 14 points clear the top of the league.
Manchester
started the game the better and had some good possession around Matt
Greenfield's net, but without creating a huge amount. The Steelers grew
into the game and took the lead thorugh Patrick Watling with 13:35
played. Connor Lee was a better pass away from tying the game, but the
Storm were made to pay for not taking their chances with nine seconds
left in the period through a wonderful individual effort from Kevin
Tansey.
Storm had an early powerplay chance in period two but
failed to create any sustained pressure on Greenfield. The Steelers
showed them how to do it when they scored 47 seconds into a Stephen
Johnson penalty, Daniel Ciampini the only player who seemed to know
where the puck was at the far post to lift it into the net at 26:06.
That
was where the scoring stopped in a game where the Steelers would go on
to out-shoot their visitors 46-18 over 60 minutes. Matt Greenfield
logged his seventh league shutout of the season.