18 Jan 2025, 19:00 | Regular season | Altrincham Ice Dome |
Manchester Storm | 4-5 | Fife Flyers |
Periods: Shots: | 1-0 (19-15) | 2-1 (12-6) | 1-4 (15-14) | Total: 46-35 |
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Referees: #44 Sam Anderson/Pering  |  Spectators: 2189 |
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Goals and assists
Fife Flyers logged their first win since 1 December 2024 with a
comeback win in Manchester, beating Storm 5-4 at an almost sold-out
Storm Shelter.
The result marked the first win of Johnny Curran's coaching career.
The only goal of the opening 20 minutes came just before the half-way mark of the period.
Joe Morrow jumped into the play and snapped a shot to beat Janis Voris high at 9:55.
Fife had an excellent chance to get back into things on their
first powerplay of the night 9:40 into period two - but it backfired as
Storm rushed up ice and Loren Ulett's strange shot got past Voris to
make it 2-0 shorthanded at 31:01.
Voris made one of the poke-checks of the season, rushing out to
deny a Storm breakaway just over the blue line moments later. However, a
tic-tac-toe play involving Jake Durflinger and Grant Hebert was
finished by Ryan Hughes at 32:49 to put Storm three ahead - also
prompting the Flyers into a time-out.
The Flyers pulled a goal back with 1:41 left in the period
through Michael Cichy to put themselves just two behind heading into the
third.
Hughes struck against 3:24 into period three which looked to have
made things more comfortable for Storm, however Noah Delmas scored just
35 seconds later to make it a two-goal game again. On the powerplay,
the puck was nicely worked to Lucas Chiodo at the farp ost to beat Evan
Weninger at 51:19 and get the Flyers back to within one. Then, 83
seconds later, a neat Ryan Foss pass set up Kieran Craig in front to
slot home and tie the game.
It got even better for the visitors on
a late powerplay as Cichy got the puck over the line in a scramble
around the net to put the Flyers into the lead with only 2:03 to play.
Storm pulled Weninger for the final 82 seconds, but they couldn't beat
Voris for a fifth time and the Flyers celebrated a long-awaited win.