11 Feb 2024, 17:00 | Regular season | Dundee Ice Arena |
Dundee Stars | 2-3 | Belfast Giants |
Periods: Shots: | 1-1 (18-14) | 0-2 (11-11) | 1-0 (14-6) | Total: 43-31 |
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Referees: Craig/Ferguson  |  Spectators: 1981 |
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Goals and assists
Daniel Tedesco scored all three goals for Belfast Giants as they picked up a win over Dundee Stars on Tayside.
Period
one, in which the teams combined for some 32 shots, ended with the
sides tied at one each. Lucas Brine made a great double-save in close
with the puck bobbling around early on, before flashing the glove for an
excellent point-blank save later in the period. Daniel Tedesco did open
the scoring for the Giants at 13:32, but they were pegged back by
Anthony Rinaldi finishing the rebound from a Josh Brittian shot after
the Giants' clearance up the middle went straight to the Stars
defenseman. Both goals in the period were scored on the powerplay. Craig
Garrigan had earlier called Tyler Beskorowany into an excellent save as
he raced through and made a point-blank deflection that was stopped by
the Giants goalie.
Tedesco was then the start of the middle period
to separate the teams. He beat Brine across the face of the goal
following a neat pass from Blake Speers, before making it a hat trick
with a powerplay marker at 25:07. Dundee competed well in the period and
would probably consider themselves unlucky to be two down, but they
couldn't find a further way past Beskorowany despite some good chances
in front of the Giants net.
It was going to need a dirty goal to
beat Beskorowany again, and that's what the Stars got with just over 14
minutes to go. Ryan Valentini's shot deflected off Brendan Harms in
front of the Giants goalie with make it a 3-2 game at 45:52, the Stars'
second powerplay goal of the game. Marc LeFebvre called a timeout with
62 seconds left and pulled Brine for the extra attacker. Harms had a
good look at the net in the final seconds, but Beskorowany stood tall
and the Giants held on for the win.