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Cardiff Devils 5 - 2 Edinburgh Capitals

Welcome to MNL when the DEVILS take on the in form Edinburgh Capitals at the IAW

A sell out crowd, Brad Voth #26 retired plus all the pleasure of following the best team in the land

Score predictions plus those printable comments always welcomed to matchnighlive@gmail.com

Join me (OJ) from aroud 6:30 as we attempt to bring you as comprehensive coverage as is possible bearing in mind the problems with mobile signals at the IAW

Well I am here but no texters so far from IAW

WARNING - It is very likely that we will only be able to bring you an abridged edition of MNL tonight

Comms link to IAW are almost non existent but hopefully our lone texter who has helped us in the past will report in shotly.

Mark G says big crowd big game a 6-3 Devils win will do nicely

Pat calls it 4-2 to Devils

Rob Batch very confident and calls it 7-1 to DEVILS

That would do nicely

I am tol;d warmup is in progess by a fan who is outside IAW

I am told face off is delated - no reason given

Hazel says we will win 5-2

I am told face off could be as late as 7;30

If you have a signal inside or outside the IAW let us know what is happenning. Unconfirmed reports that Capitals arrived late

Confirmed Capitals were lare arriving

Told face off will not be long, Capitals have had their warmup

Zamboni now on ice

Officals have appeared

Devils intro

Legthy presentation of the all conguering team of 2011 being introduced

Brad Voth's exploits being shown

Brad addressng fans

#26 being raised

Anthem

Puck dropped

Tom Murdy in net

Capitals score Fydorov

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Capitlals look very dangerous

Missed details of Devils scorer

Big hit Josh Batch

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Richie shot touched in by Lord

Capitals penalty -Plews 2 minutes for roughing

Come U DEVILS lets have a PPG

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Haddad penalty

1 minute killed

Doucet SH breakaway draws penalty

Devils now on PP

Fournier shot saved

Capitals FS

Gleason Fournier scred 1st Devils goal

Jake Morissette scored the 3rd

Patrick Bordeleau penalty

Chaging minor @ 15:28

KiLL DEVILS KILL

Capitals still looking dangerous

Final minute

netminder Fullerton hit in the mask

Devils icing

End of 1st period DEVILS 3 Capitals 1

SoG for 1st period DEVILS 11 Capitals 9

Capitals goal was timed @ 3:06

Devils equalised @ 3:48 through Fournier assists Martin, Asselin

Devils 2nd goal @ 8:11 scored by Lord assists Richardson & Bentiovoglio

Devils 3rd @ 10:25 (PPG) scored by Morissette assists Hotham & Richardson

At this rate Richie is goiung to pass his last seasons points well before Xmas

I am not a trchie but wew might be having problems with our server

Some of my postings seem to disappear.

In terms of penalties its 2 minors each so far from referee Dean Smith

Giants getting revenge for last nights defeat by Blaze by leading 4-1 midway through 2nd

Tire them out please

2nd period underway

Devils penalty Andrew Lord

Hooking @ 20:40

KILL DEVILS KILL

Devils clear zone

Devils Full Strength

Fullerton covers

Fullerton gove save

Capitals icing

Fullerton saving Capitals at regular intervals

Capitals icing

great save Fullerton

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Joey Martin

@ 27:01 unassisted

Capitals penalty coming

Plews 2 minutes for hooking

Lets have another PPG U DEVILS

FCapitals Full Strength

Capitals GOAL

Johnston the scorer

Gametime 34:02

Fullerton saves from Morissette

Capitals have clawed their way back into this game

Capitals pressure leads to Murdy save

Devils clear zone

More preesure befor Devils icing

Face off in the Capitals zone

30 secs left

End of 2nd period DEVILS 4 Capitals 2

Clan's bad form continues losing 2-0 to the Stars in 3rdf period

Now 3-0 to Stars @46:32

SoG for 2nd period DEVILS 12 Capitals 5 making it 23-14 after 2 periods

teams back on ice

3rd period starts

Lets have that next goal U DEVILS

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils icing

Devils looking for that 5th goal

Devils trying to be too fancy - FIRE THE BISCUIT

Gametime 47:33

Puck out of play Face off in the Capitals zone

Lets have that next goal U DEVILS

Capitals penalty

Milan 2 minutes for high sticks

Capitals had SH chance

Devils cannot force that biscuit past Fullerton

Face off in the Capitals zone

Devils icing

Capitals Full Strength

Devils clean zone

Devils penalty Andrew Lord 2 minutes for slashing

KILL DEVILS KILL

@53:17

KILL DEVILS KILL

Devils Full Strength

Puck out of play Face off in the Capitals zone

Gametime 56:39

Big hits from Devils

Fullerton glove save

Final 2 minutes

Fullerton lifted

Face off in the Devils zone

Time Out Capitals

Fullerton still on bench as Face off in the Devils zone

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ENG for Andrew Lord

Sean Bentivoglio banked puck off boards right into Lord's path

2nd assist for Richie

Capitals penalty - Tipoff

Final Score DEVILS 5 Capitals 2

Devils go top of the league table

Steelers 4 Flyers 1; Giants 4 Blaze 1; Clan 0 Stars 3 all results

Capitals MoM - Jacob Johnston

Devils MoM - MARK RICHARDSON

Thats all from me (OJ) hope our abridged coverage was good enough

Join me tomorrow when the DEVILS travel to Coventry for a must win Challenge Cup game

Join me from aound 4:30 for a 5:15 face off

NOS DA PAWB - GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE