18 Feb 2024, 16:00 | Regular season | SSE Arena Belfast |
Belfast Giants | 3-0 | Manchester Storm |
Periods: Shots: | 2-0 (17-10) | 0-0 (8-10) | 1-0 (8-12) | Total: 33-32 |
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Referees: Good/Ferguson  |  Spectators: 6441 |
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Goals and assists
Belfast Giants avenged their midweek defeat in Manchester with a
home, shutout win over the Storm in front of 6,441 fans at the SSE
Arena.
As they had done on Wednesday night in Manchester, the
Giants raced into a two-goal lead against the Storm. Jeff Baum's nice
wrist shot from an angle beat Evan Weninger with 7:46 played, while
Travis Brown followed up on a rebound to double that lead at 10:19. The
hosts survived 41 seconds with three skaters to come out of the period
two ahead.
Period two saw Storm failed to take some excellent
chances - both a 3-on-1 and a 2-on-1 went begging with Tyler Hinam
shooting high on the former, and an Anderson pass too high on the
latter. The Giants thought they'd made it 3-0 31:53 off a David Goodwin
shot, but the goal was immediately washed out for Goalie Interference.
Adam Keefe challenged the call, and the Giants were put down a man for
two minutes after the review came back negative.
Loren Ulett
nearly got a Storm coming rolling with a wonderful between-the-legs move
but found Beskorowany tight to his post. The Giants goalie made a
series of excellent saves in the final period to Storm a repeat of what
happened on Wednesday night, where the Storm came back from two down to
take a 5-2 win. As it turned out, Storm would failed to beat Beskorowany
on any of their 32 shots and could only watch as Blake Speers added an
empty-netter to settle things with 30 seconds left.