23 Feb 2024, 19:45 | Regular season | Fife Ice Arena |
Fife Flyers | 2-3 SO | Manchester Storm |
Periods: Shots: | 2-1 (17-14) | 0-0 (10-13) | 0-1 (18-8) | 0-0 (6-3) | Total: 51-38 |
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Referees: Rodger/Ferguson  |  Spectators: 1420 |
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Goals and assists
Former Fife Flyers forward Zack Phillips scored the winning penalty
shot for Manchester Storm to give them a 3-2 victory over his former
side on Friday night in Kirkcaldy.
The action in this game came
in the opening and final 20 minutes of regulation. Fife were ahead
inside four minutes with a Max Humitz shot straight off a Teemu
Pulkkinen faceoff win at 3:51. Raymond Brice scored his first goal for
the Storm at 6:24 with the finish on a 2-on-1 rush off a perfect pass
from Stephen Johnson. The hosts went back ahead through Jonas Emmerdahl
who found himself in the slot to turn home Troy Lajeunesse's spinning
shot on net at 15:03. Manchester thought they'd levelled the game with
five seconds left in the period, but the goal was called back after
video review.
Period two had no goals, although both sides had
powerplay chances to add to their tallies. Arguably the biggest play of
the second was Kyle Osterberg's sprawl to clear a puck off the goal
line and prevent Storm tying the game.
The visitors did, however,
level early in period three - just 55 seconds were on the clock in the
third when Brice scored his second of the night to tie things up. That
was where the scoring stopped with both points taking a point ahead of
overtime.
Just 61 seconds into overtime CJ Garcia tripped Kyle
Osterberg when he was through on Evan Weninger, but the Flyers forward
couldn't net the winner on his return form injury. Joe Morrow's shot
halfway through the bonus period was the closest Storm came to winning
it before the game was ultimately decided in a shootout.
Neither
team managed a goal through four rounds of penalty shots, but both
Morrow and Drake Pilon pulled out excellent moves to score in round
five. Johan Eriksson missed again in the sixth for the hosts, with
Phillips coming out to settle the game and give Storm the extra point.