23 Mar 2024, 18:00 | Regular season | Guildford Spectrum |
Guildford Flames | 7-1 | Glasgow Clan |
Periods: Shots: | 2-0 (10-7) | 4-0 (10-8) | 1-1 (10-8) | Total: 30-23 |
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Referees: Smith/Ions  |  Spectators: 1933 |
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Goals and assists
Guildford Flames picked up their second win of the week, beating
Glasgow Clan 7-1, while wearing their special retro jerseys to the
organisation's treble season at the turn of the millennium.
A pair
of goals in the opening 20 minutes put the Flames up by two in a period
thye controlled. Ryan Hughes came in at the far post to poke home a tip
from Matt Tugnutt from an original Patrick Bajkov pass to open the
scoring with 8:41 played. Some five minutes later, a Peter Crinella
stretch pass set Ryan Tait through on a race for the puck, and he won it
ahead of Reece Kelly and then calmly slotted back across Antti
Karjalainen.
The home side then added four in the middle period
as they pulled away further. Hughes made the most of a Bajkov blocked
shot to then skate after the loose puck, through the zones, and finish
five-hole at 27:03 to make it 3-0, before Bajkov skated across the Clan
netminder and finished high at 30:56. Off the very next faceoff, Bajkov
fed Hughes to complete his hat trick just nine seconds later. Former
Clan forward Steven McParland converted a penalty shot with 2:49 left in
the period to give Guildford a six-goal lead.
Matt Alvaro scored
78 seconds into the final period as the Flames hit seven, before Darien
Craighead got Clan on the board at 44:04. Charlie Combs could have
pulled another back for the visitors but couldn't beat Taz Burman, while
Owen Griffiths hit the post in the dying seconds as the Flames almost
made it eight.