Match Night Live

Good Afternoon Hockey Fans. Join me (Russky) from 5 O'clock, for the brief build up, Latest scores and unrivalled match text commentary once the puck drops.

If you have a comment and/or prediction please send it to us at matchnightlive@gmail.com and I will do my best to include it before the end of the first period intermission.

Until then I bid you an enjoyable and restful afternoon.

Hello there. hope all is well with you, where ever you may be.

Russky here in the hosting hot seat for this game, that both teams will see as a must win game, so somebody is bound to be disappointed. Lets hope its not us.

After last nights OT loss the Devils will want to get back to winning ways.

Tonights ref is scheduled to be Mike Hicks with James Kavanagh and Matt Rose as Linos.

Our texter tonight is KettDevil who tells me that the Warm up has finished. No Haddad still tonight but Dr Piggott was dressed and in the warm up.

A good collection of Devils fans present in Block 7

and Dave Simms is in attendance, why he's not in attendance in Nottingham, who knows? Perhaps he's been banned from there. Only Joking folks.

No predictions yet on tonights game.

My mistake, Sheffield are in Dundee tonight, not Nottingham.

Belfast are the visiting team at the NIC tonight where they are losing 4-0 after the first period. That one faced off at 4pm

Lights down awaiting intros

Coventry look to have a good roster with a refreshed line up. a Few trophy barren years for the Blaze, aside of a Play off final appearance the season before last.

Players wary of that we know of are Ross Venus, Jordan Pietrus and Kevin Noble.

Teams lined up on respective blue lines

Anthem time

Devils in predominantly white shirts with red and green Trim and red shorts white socks

Blaze in Grey shirts with Blue trim

Bownsy starts between the pipes

Puck drops and we are underway

somewhat pedestrian start to the game

Faryna and Pietrus battling on boards

Martin Pope line on

Blaze offside, neutral zone face off

Moore Batch and Myers now on ice

Venus puts one just wide of goal

Crowder Lord and Benti on the next line to ice

Face off in the Devils zone

game a bit scrappy

scramble infront of Bowns then

Bowns saves from Brett Robinson

Blaze pen Robinson

Blaze looking a bit frantic on PK

Paris fires two big shots

in quick succession

Crowder goes close

Face off in the Blaze zone

Lord shoots straight at Blaze NM

Blaze FS

No sign of Asselin today yet

Lots of Devils pressure but bearing fruit at moment

Nastiuk is the Blaze NM

Bowns pads away a shot from Vallarand

game very scrappy neither team able to establish dominance

Kotz fires wide

no pattern to play at all from both teams

Bowns deflects a shot wide

texter says we need a little luck and the puck to bounce our way

gametime 11:15

neutral zone face off

comes to nought

game has atmosphere of a training session rather than a proper game

Face off in the Blaze zone

Paris winds up for a Howitzer shot but not on target

Nastiuk has to save from a deflection off a Blaze stick.

Noble with a chance but Bowns equal to it

Face off in the Devils zone

Bowns covers the puck

Richardson with a great block

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils pen Fournier tripping at 12:58

Devils FS

Face off in the Blaze zone

Ferrara and Hotham have an exchange of views

Face off in the Blaze zone

Vallarand and Robinson not quite on the same page of the play book

game is very disjointed and not easy to watch

according to our texter

Ulmer gets a tip to a Crowder shot just wide

Devils pen tripping

Bentivogiio the guilty man

harsh call there at 16:28

Poor PP at moment from Blaze

easy PK for Devils. back to FS

Joey Martin shoots straight into Nastiuks pads

Face off in the Blaze zone

something of a subdued atmosphere at Skydome

Red Army making themselves heard though

Blaze pen Brett Robinsonn 2 minutes for holding @19:38

KettDevils says this game does rate in his top 100 games so far.

buzzer goes to end a non descript period thankfully.

well that wont linger long in the memory.

Dai Rees says 4-1 to Devils which seems a trifle optimistic on the basis of the first period's play.

Panthers 6-1 up end of 2nd at NIC

the 3 other games are yet to start.

No SOGs info as online gamesheet not been updated yet

Now Panthers leading 6-2 against Belfast

Cenwyn says: the only thing worse than two very poor teans on the ice is the referee - Appalling all round. Only one pen worth calling and that was against the Devils so I guess its even. We are shocking, Their netty looks impressive. His words not mine

I feel sorry for KettDevil who had to drive about 40 miles to watch this game. At least he hadnt travelled all the way up from Cardiff

the other games tonight see Guildford hosting MKL, Edinburgh host Manchester; Dundee host Sheffield and Fife host Braehead

The Devils are back on the ice as are the Blaze

here we go for the 2nd

Devils on PP

brett Robinson serving two mins for tripping at end of 1st

Devils trying to set up

Blaze clear

Reddick has a shot just wide

Face off in the Blaze zone

gametime 21:56

Face off in the Devils zone

Blaze Fs now

Noble fires one Bowns clears with Blocker

Devils break but loses momentum

Face off in the Blaze zone

offside Blaze.

neutral zone FO

Bowns saves Venus' shot off his shoulder

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils break but move breaks down

Nastiuk saves from Louis

Face off in the Blaze zone

Hicks missing lots of potential calls

game livening up a bit, which, lets face it, wasnt difficult

Blaze pen Dingle 2 minutes for interference and Noble for tripping

Devils Time out at 26:19 Devils 5 on 3

1: 10 of 5 on 3 for Devils

Paris shoots padded away by Nastiuk

play whistled down Myers in crease

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Drew Paris scores a one timer

assist martin and Hotham

@27:11

that was a Howitzer of a shot

Blaze now killing one pen

Blaze counter attack. Bowns saves

Dingle to Vallarand. bowns saves.

Vallarand and Faryna compare handbags

both to bin both roughing

Faryna took exception to Vallarand crashing Bowns for the rebound

Bowns ok

Blaze just back to FS before that pen

Benti not Faryna in bin.

Nastiuk saves from Faryna

game time 30:00

centre ice face off

gane score sheet finally updated

Devils desparate last ditch clearance

reddick causing chaos

Reddick clears off the line

game is definitely improving as is the atmosphere at the skydome

blaze goal off moorings

play whistled down

Blaze responded well to going behind

game has lifted some since the 1st

much better 2nd

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Paul Crowder assist Morrisette

@33:55

official scoresheet has Crowder unassisted

Face off in the Blaze zone

Another Face off in the Blaze zone

Devils playing quite well by all reports

Apparrently a Pacquette cross check went uncalled during earlier melee in Devils D zone

Devils clear frantically

Ferrara felled but gets up

Result in Nottingham. Panthers won 6-3

I'll bring you the other latest scores in the 2nd period break

Blaze trying to create some chances but last ditch defending by Devils denying them

game time 38:20

Devils force turnover but Ulmer cant do anything with it

Pacquette fires over Bowns' goal

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils clear

Bowns saves from Robinson after Ferrara fires puck into side netting

Devils pen 2 minutes for tripping Josh Batch the guilty man

@39:44

Buzzer goes for end of 2nd

well that was a much better period. Blaze seem to have woken up a little at the end of that period

Latest scores Dundee 0 Sheffield 1; Edinburgh 0 Manchester 0; Fife 2 Braehead 1; Guildford 1 MKL 0

1st period SOGs Blaze 8 Devils 12

Manchester now 1-0 up in Edinburgh

Lord and Richardson have not been seen for most of the game. Richardson took a puck to the leg blocking a shot. Perhaps Lordo is directing operations from the Bench

1 all in Guildford now

Lord on the ice now in pre 3rd period warm uo

Devils on PK at start of 3rd

1:15PK

Devils pen 2 minutes for slashing A Hotham @40:10

5 on 3 for Blaze.

Pietrus fires over goal from point blank

Face off in the Devils zone

Bowns saves from Valllarand

and now again from Dingle

Face off in the Devils zone

29 secs of 5 on 3 to kill

Devils clear down ice

45 secs of 5 on 4 now to kill for Devils

Morrisette on Breakaway

Vallarand scores

PPG there for Coventry

@ 42:01

Morrisette goes close again

Devils need to keep composure and not panic

Blaze have alot of jump on their play now

stil scrappy in gameplay

Vallarand shoot wide. that was close to the game tying goal

Face off in the Devils zone

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Lord scores Assist Morrisette

a very timely goal there

@ 46:14

Blaze score a messy goal by Pietrus

Texter says next goal even bigger than huge

Devils shot just wide

game speed alot faster now

end to end game

game time 49:40

devils ice puck seeking a breather

and a line change

Face off in the Devils zone

offside Devils

neutral zone face off

Devils clear

game gone scrappy again with lots of turnovers

Hotham ejected with a 5+game for retaliatory double hand slash after Pacquette levelled Faryna

2nd period shots Blaze 4 Devils 13

Pacquette has also been ejected

2 min minor for Clements

Clements 2 minutes for slashing + 2 minutes for tripping

Pacquette was 5 + game for check to head

game back underway with Devils on PP

game time 53:44

Benti has a golden chance but fires across goal

5 mins remaining in game

Nastiuk saves from Martin

Faryna hits the post

@56:36

Crowder denied Nastiuk saves rebound as well

Face off in the Blaze zone

Louis just beats Dingle to puck

icing called against Devils

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils clear legally so to speak

Reddick goes close

2 mins remaining

Bowns saves comfortably

Blaze time out

91 seconds remaining in game

Nastiuk lifted

Face off in the Devils zone

Face off in the Devils zone

yes another one

Louis lays a big hit behind devils goal

30 secs left

Devils hit the post on Empty net

game over Devils win, but a hard earned gritty much needed win

Devils come to IAW on 28/10 so that will be a big game. I think i might get my ticket for that this week !!!

Thanks KettDevil for his excellent texts. Safe journey home for him

Devils MOM is Drew Paris

safe trip home to all supporters at the Skydome tonight.

Thats it from me for tonight, join me next saturday as the Devils venture up to Steel town. Until then

GOOD NIGHT ALL . NOS DA PAWB