Match Night Live

Welcome to our coverage of tonight's clash between the Devils and the Steelers in Cardiff. We will be live with updates from around 5pm (Maybe 5:30) for a 6pm face off.

If you can't make it down and you don't want to miss any of the action and reading the game isn't enough you can get the game on Devils live TV here http://cardiffdevilstv.net/ for a jolly reasonable eight pounds.

If you'd like to chip in with a comment or make a score prediction you can contact us at matchnightlive@gmail.com

If you dead bored before the game maybe check out our Xmas Inferno TV here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLSyyrVecU

See you all later when hopefully the Devils will Cook us up an Xmas win

Cold rainy night here in Cardiff bay tonight and we understand that Chris Blight &Joonas Liimatainen arent icing tonight

Warm up underway

Hazel in Southend wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and thinks we will see a 4-3 Devils win

Warm up over here in the bay

Steelers on the ice and into just starting

devils on the Ice

Happy Holidays to all the Cardiff Devils fans from the Plumton's in cold, snowy, Calgary Canada...

Getting close to face off now

Heading into the Anthems

almost off here in the Bay

Good crowd in tonight but not many in from Sheffield

We seem to have a delayed face off

Waiting on the lights here in the bay

Still waiting on the face off as the lights come back on

and we are underway

Early devils shot deflected out of play

Face off in the Steelers zone

18:00 to play

all Devils at the minute Frank Doyle being made to work hard

Face off in the Steelers zone

Steelers called for offside

Brad Plumton & Drew Fata drop the gloves centre ice

Good even fight Drew Fata gets the take but Fata loses his Jersey

Could we be seeing an Illegal equipment call here ?

Waiting on Pens being called

Steelers on the PK after that

Drew Fata 5 minutes for fighting and 2 minutes for illegal equipment

Brad Plumton 5 minutes for fighting

Devils well set on the Power play

Steelers takes out a Devil behind the net can't see who Ben Davies heading to the box

14:56 to play

Jason Hewitt 2 minutes for roughing and Ben Davies 2 minutes for slashing

Devils with 20 seconds left on the PP

Steelers back to five skaters

Steelers pressure and Phil Cook covers Face off in the Devils zone

13:20 to play

Face off in the Steelers zone

Devils getting good chances here

Frank Doyle makes a scrambled save

Face off in the Steelers zone

Devils with a big chance 3 on 2

11 minutes to play

Lame call on Rupert Quiney 2 minutes for tripping

Face off in the Devils zone

Phil Cook with a good save with no stick

Devils ...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Jake Morissette with the finish short handed

Jake Morissette assisted by Ben Davies

Phil Cook with a save thru traffic

Devils back to F/S

Steelers playing dirty around the Devils goal

Face off in the Devils zone

Matthew Myers with a good chance saved

7:24 to play and we have handbags behind the Steelers goal

Devils called offside

Phil Cook with a big save

Devils icing Face off in the Devils zone

Phil Cook saves and we have Face off in the Devils zone

5:04 left in the first here

Phil Cook looks great here in the bay so far

3:20 to play Face off in the Steelers zone

Devils icing

Frank Doyle deflects the Puck out of play Face off in the Steelers zone

2:40 to play

Steelers have a goal washed out as the Net was off the Moor

Face off in the Devils zone

Steelers players not happy

Net off the mooring again

1:40 to play in the first

Puck out of play with 20 seconds to play

Devils pressing hard as the period ends

around the league its Clan 4 - 1 Blaze in the 2nd

Teams almost back for the 2nd

2nd under way here

Scramble in front of Devils net

Face off in the Devils zone

Steelers try and shoot after the whistle

Ben Davies & Jason Hewitt both into the box

2 minutes for both

Ben Davies 2 minutes for roughing and Jason Hewitt slashing 2 minutes for

Phil Cook making some class saves here

Face off in the Devils zone

Tomas Kurka goes close

Devils ...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Tomas Kurka from Brad Plumton we think

15:55 to play in the 2nd

Face off in the Steelers zone

Devils really pressuring now in the 2nd

Face off in the Devils zone

Mac Faulkner can't get on the end of a lovely cross Frank Doyle covers the puck

Face off in the Steelers zone

Devils keeping the pressure on

Face off in the Steelers zone

13:10 to play

Devils outworking the steelers

Gord Baldwin knocks the Puck out of play

Matthew Myers with a good shot deflected

10:26 to play in the 2nd

Steelers camped in the Devils Zone now

Puck out of play Face off in the Steelers zone

Brad Plumton 2 minutes for being a naughty boy

Phil Cook with an amazing glove save

Brad Plumton 2 minutes for slashing

7:55 to play

Devils killing the Steelers PP well here

7:10 to play

Devils back to FS

Really end to end stuff here Phil Cook makes a save Face off in the Devils zone

Devils denied on a 2 on 2

3 minutes to play in the 2nd

Devils icing

Face off in the Devils zone

Brad Plumton 2 minutes for slashing we think

Brad Plumton was 2 minutes for interference

Into the final minute in the 2nd

Max Birbraer goes close

End of the 2nd

Shots so far Steelers 21 Devils 17

teams back on the ice

and we are off in the 3rd

Devils back to f/s

18:41 to play

Face off in the Steelers zone

Phil Cook covers the puck

Brad Plumton getting under Tim Spencer's skin

17:52 to play

garbage call on Matthew Myers Face off in the Devils zone

Matthew Myers 2 minutes for hooking

Phil Cook playing a blinder in nets

Tonight's attendance is 1684 highest all season !

16:01 to play

we have a scrum behind the Devils net after a delayed call on Ben Davies

and Tyson Marsh goes in as well

Darnell is a Steeler is the chant

Time out called will be 5 on 3 when we come back

15:29 to play

3 great saves from Phil Cook

Devils clear the puck

1 minute left 5 on 3

Phil Cook makes another save

34 seconds on the pens for Devils

Devils back at full strength

amazing stuff there

Phil Cook saves

Face off in the Devils zone

Steelers thought they had a goal there

but no

Phil Cook saves

Steelers score.. details to follow

Goal deflected in

12:02 to play

Drew Fata the scorer

Steelers go close again

but net off the moorings

Phil Cook gets 2 minutes for delay of game

9:50 to play

Rob Sirianni called for Steelers

Rob Sirianni 2 minutes for cross-checking

Devils ...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Matthew Myers

8:54 to play

Darnell strikes again Max Birbraer 2 minutes for something or other

Max Birbraer 2 minutes for hooking

8:36 to play

Fight

Drew Fata & Tyson Marsh

Drew Fata with a nasty hit to marsh to kick it of gets the take down

Lino injured in the fight it seems

Tyson Marsh 2 minutes for elbowing and 5 minutes for fighting

Drew Fata 5 minutes for fighting

Devils ...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Brad Plumton

Come on Plummer !

Sorry it was Mac Faulkner

our mistake ( Jon )

Devils ...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Ben Davies

We're gonna win playing 7:30 to play

Ben Davies from Jake Morissette the 5th goal

Fight

Brad Plumton Vs Stefan Meyer

big hit from Brad Plumton on Chad Langlais leads to it

6:55 to play here

Brent Pope dons a Red Army travel hat

Brad Plumton and Stefan Meyer both 5 minutes for fighting

6:22 to play

Red Army chant going

Phil Hill with a nasty hit on Josh Batch... dirty play Hilly

no pen called which is a disgrace

"we want six" chants

Josh Batch back on the ice but makes his way to the changing room

4:38 to play

Doug Christiansen not saying much on the Bench it looks like

Phil Cook magic save

and again

and again

Phil Cook playing a blinder

1:30 to play

Steelers seem to have nothing

Poorest Steelers team we've seen in the tent in a long time

36 seconds to play Face off in the Devils zone

Phil Cook got to be MOM for Devils

Tim Spencer runs a Devil into Phil Cook

were gonna win on the organ now

Tim Spencer 2 minutes for interference

19 seconds to play

Devils win it 5-1 !

Phil Cook looks an amazing pick up " What a Goaly chants" in the BBT here

Steelers MOM Mark Thomas

Steelers skate off their fans having already made an exit

Devils MOM lets be honest has to be Phil Cook

Thats us out cheers all and Merry Christmas