Match Night Live

Good evening!

Chris hosting again tonight, as always I can be reached before/during the game at matchnightlive@gmail.com

Just over an hour to go until we start, hopefully team news will start trickling in as soon as the doors open at 6pm...

Devils have just emerged for the warmup, waiting on the 9 or so Capitals players to come out now...

Capitals come out, 8 skaters and 1 netminder...

9 skaters now...

Confirmation finally

Capitals have turned up with 8 skaters plus 2 netminders, that's including the 2 new imports...

Apparently Capitals have managed to convince 3 players from Oxford City Stars ENL team to play for them also tonight...

Devils supposedly starting with Myers in nets tonight, but i've yet to have this confirmed...

1 texter says he hasn't seen Scott Neil during the warmup, but he's also not been spotted lurking on the bench...

It's very quiet coming from the rink, everyone seems to be in a state of 'meh' at the prospect of this game :(

Bascially everyone who's sent predictions in is avoiding a scoreline, the only one mentioned so far is a Devils 7-2 victory

Swimming gala at the rink seems to be causing some problems for the Devils fans, but no news of a delayed faceoff yet

Officials are on the ice

Keith says Devils to win 20-2, I don't know whether to put a sad or happy face after that...

Devils on the ice, a very big crowd for tonights game it would seem...

Jono says Devils to win 25-3, if that's the score it will actually be insane!

Still a massive queue to buy tickets, and still no news on Horne or Neil for the Capitals, they are however up to 10 skaters...

The Caps are now upto 11 skaters, sounds like those 3 players from Oxford are actually icing then...

Anthem done, I don't know how many Capitals fans are in attendance

Someone is on the ice wearing Hornes shirt, but it's not Kyle Horne...

Do the Capitals not even have any duct tape or electrical tape?

And we're off, i've no idea who's started for each team

Devils crash the net straight away and the puck pings off the pipework...

Good save from Poulke denies the Devils...

The record for the most goals in a league game from the Devils is 23, that's from a Devils 23-4 victory over the Whitley Warriers on 6th January, 1990!

Devils all over the Capitals, but they have managed 1 shot so far...

Now another texter says it's all Capitals and they've had more shots on goal than us...

Devils were offside at roughly 5:10...

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Devils 1st goal, M Smith from Pelle and Birbraer at 5:43

Devils seem to be taking this very easy, they're close to goal but just not scoring... yet...

Devils crashing the net again, rebounds all over the shop...

Seems i've spelt the Capitals netminders name wrong, it's Poucke not Poulke :E

Birbraer goes close...

Now Weller goes close...

Save from Poucke at an unknown time...

Capitals penalty timed at 13:52, Hay 2mins for tripping

From what's being said, Devils really aren't playing properly as Adams said we would be...

Texters have just said Pelle had 2 open net opportunities but passed the puck rather than score...

Devils look embarrassed to try and score it would seem...

God damnit, we should be playing properly, not avoiding shooting or scoring

The Caps mess is not our fault, we should be playing properly in preperation for tomorrows game against the Blaze

Devils seem to be shooting wide far too often according to texters...

So much for Adams comments on the website then...

Capitals penalty timed at 18:40, Hutchins 2mins for hooking...

I'm going to go spare if we don't win by a decent margin tonight

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Devils 2nd goal timed at 18:48, Michel from Finnerty and K Smith - PPG

Devils 3rd goal timed at 19:16, Hill from Finnerty and Voth

"Capitals are bobbins and the Devils aren't putting any effort in"

Apparently all my updates saying it was the end of the period have gone missing, apologies for that

It is indeed the end of the 1st, and we're leading 3-0...

Shots on goal for the 1st, Devils had 23, Capitals had 2...

Both teams are back for the 2nd period

No attendance has been mentioned numbers wise, but texters are all saying it's a sell out, it's just a shame the game is so utterly dire

Here we go with the 2nd period anyway...

Details of our 2nd goal have been changed, it should now read...

Devils 2nd goal timed at 18:48, Voth from Finnerty and Michel

All Devils, but once again we don't seem to be shooting...

Van Poucke makes another decent save, but once again no one is telling me any times

Devils shooting, but almost every shot is going suspiciously wide...

I don't understand how shooting wide on purpose, or not shooting is any less embarrassing than just scoring all the goals we can?

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Devils 4th goal timed at 24:41, Birbraer from Pelle and Matzka

Hit F5 to get all the missing updates...

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Devils 5th goal timed at 25:58, Macrae from Michel and Adams

Devils hit the pipes once again

Poucke is making saves but rebounds are everywhere

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Devils 6th goal timed at 28:44, Finnerty from S Smith and Myers!

Capitals score!

Pelle comes close...

Capitals score!

Capitals 2nd goal timed at 30:33, Hutchins from Cingel

Additional assist on Capitals 2nd goal goes to Blake

Devils playing some absolutely terrible hockey, after all that Adams said about playing our normal game, it sounds like perhaps he wasn't telling the whole truth...

Devils close once again, but Caps somehow clear the puck from the line

Change to the Capitals 1st goal, should now read...

Capitals 1st goal timed at 29:02, Dolan from Cox

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Devils 7th goal timed at 32:51, Matzka from Pelle and Birbraer

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Devils 8th goal timed at 35:22, S Smith from Adams and Michel

Very nice goal from S Smith by all accounts, a clean breakaway and an ace finish

Pelle doesn't appear to be able to buy a goal so far...

Devils passing is all very nice, but we're still not shooting at all opportunities...

Gametime 39:00, there's really not a lot to report i'm afraid :(

End of the 2nd period, we lead 8-2...

Shots on goal for the 2nd period, Devils had 25, Capitals had 6...

Crowd announced tonight as 1961...

Must be almost time for the final period...

Both teams are back for the 3rd

And we're off for the 3rd period...

Apparently i'm still not allowed to post on the Capitals forum, but if there's anyone watching who's allowed to post over there, could you check this thread out --> http://www.edinburgh-capitals.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8704

Tonights game in Cardiff is part of a groupon offer, it's happened several times throughout the season and it's bumped the attendance up massively...

Devils shooting wide once again...

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Devils 9th goal timed at 42:19, Matzka from Birbraer and Adams

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Devils 10th goal timed at 44:01, Macrae from S Smith and K Smith :D

Thanks 'the todd' for posting that :)

Change to our 9th goal, should now read...

Devils 9th goal timed at 42:19, Matzka from Birbraer and Pelle

That puts Pelle on 0+4 for the evening, about time he got a couple of goals though!

Very good save from Poucke on Pelle :(

Devils hit the pipes *again*

Weller keeps going coast to coast, but isn't scoring :(

One of the Capitals tries to hipcheck Weller and comes off significantly worse...

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Devils 11th goal timed at 48:28, Michel from S Smith and Macrae

Changes to our 10th goal, should now read...

Devils 10th goal timed at 44:01, Macrae from S Smith and Michel :D

That assist on our 10th goal is Michels 100th elite league point and the crowd starts chanting 'we love you Tylor, we do' :)

Van Poucke saves again from Pelle, texters convinced he's not going to score tonight, the netminder appears to know how to stop him :(

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Devils 12th goal timed at 51:14, Voth from Finnerty and Hill

Van Poucke getting some good reviews from the texters tonight

Symonds, Richardson, K Smith and Weller are the only Devils players without any points so far...

Devils 1st penalty coming up...

Devils penalty timed at 54:41, Hill 2mins for tripping

Good save from Myers denies the Capitals a 3rd

Hill comes back

Hill comes back, and Finnerty decides it's not fair, so gives the Capitals another penalty

Devils penalty timed at 56:49, Finnerty 2mins for tripping

Myers making some good saves to deny the Capitals

Texters seem to think Pelle is trying too hard for this goal

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Devils 13th goal timed at 58:03, Macrae from S Smith and Weller - SHG :)

That was a hattrick goal for Macrae, and also the 1st point for Weller tonight :)

Another good save from Van Poucke

It's all over, Devils win 13-2

Just waiting on man of the match awards...

Capitals man of the match goes to Van Poucke

Devils man of the match goes to Macrae :)

That's all from me tonight, don't forget we're running MNL again tomorrow for the game against the Blaze :)