06 Oct 2024, 16:00 | Regular season | Motorpoint Arena Nottingham |
Nottingham Panthers | 5-1 | Fife Flyers |
Periods: Shots: | 2-0 (9-4) | 3-0 (12-7) | 0-1 (12-11) | Total: 33-22 |
|
Referees: Wells/Anderson  |  Spectators: 5566 |
  |
Nottingham Panthers picked up their third point of the weekend, and
first win in the league, with a comfortable victory over Fife Flyers on
Sunday afternoon.
The visitors were down to
just five regular defensemen and nine forwards for the trip south, which
saw them fall behind to an Ollie Betteridge shot through a screen at
11:38. Shane Owen in net thought he'd been interfered with and got coach
Tom Coolen to challenge the goal, but without success. The Flyers
killed off the resulting penalty, but were two down at 17:16 as Kristoff
Kontos snuck a shot through Owen's five-hole.
Sam
Herr made it 3-0 9:41 into period two when he followed up a Didrik
Henbrant breakaway, took the pass behind the net and slotted into an
open net. Two quick-fire goals then killed off the game before the
middle period was out. Kontos fed Hugo Roy on a 2-on-1 for the latter to
beautifully deke Owen and make it 4-0 at 36:43, while 56 seconds later
Tim Doherty one-timed Quinn Wichers' feed into the top of Owen's net.
Lucas
Chiodo got the Flyers on the board 54 seconds into the final period,
but that was as good as it got for the visitors who were well beaten by
the final buzzer.