Match Night Live
 
MK Lightning 1 - 4 Cardiff Devils

Good Morning Hockey Folk. Join me (Russky) from 6:45om (after the 6 Nations Rugby) for your usual fix of Devils Ice Hockey, today from the MK Ice Arena.

Good Morning Hockey Folk. Join me (Russky) from 6:45om (after the 6 Nations Rugby) for your usual fix of Devils Ice Hockey, today from the MK Ice Arena.

If you wish to send us a comment and/or prediction please do so by emailing it to matchnightlive@gmail.com and I will do my best to include it in the MNL coverage.

Until then, have a good day despite the dull and wet weather.

Good Evening folks. Well Wales gave England a real fright only losing by 6, Lets hope the Devils can make up for that.

Warm up coming to a close.

We have a lone but regular texter on duty for us tonight. Rachel has stepped into the breach tonight.

Well done and Thank you.

Two predictions so far. Pat reckons on a 4-2 Devils win where as Dai Rees is more confident with a 5-1 Devils win prediction. Well Dai was right last wednesday when some others doubted, me inclucded.

Meanwhile Rob Batch has no real prediction but warns of a Low tonight after the high of last wednesday night. I hope you are wrong Rob.

Well at least the Devils wont have to worry about Nickerson after his recent misdemeanors!

Tonights scheduled refs are Matt Thomson and Dean Matt Rose with Ilia Kisil and Sam Mottan as the Linos.

I will also be with you, hosting MNL coverage of tomorrow's game against the Panthers at the IAW s

No Louis apparrently Paris is in the line up.

Former Devils Carl Hudson, Guy Doucet and Denny Kearny in MK Line up

Dr Piggott in the line up for Devils. Lordo is on bench duty.

Rachel reports that the Red Army are in fine voice

Anthem time

Anthem time

game pre-ambles done.

waiting to get underway

Puck is dropped

Devils in White tops and red shorts.

Face off in the Lightning zone

Face off in the Lightning zone

early sparring exchanges

play goes down ice nothing of any threat yet from MKL

Face off in the Devils zone

Verrault Paul with chance but loses puck at wrong time

Devils break but loses momentum

Face off in the Lightning zone

Rob Batch also says he has a weird feeling about tonights game. Sorry Rob but hope your wrong, no ill feelings.

Martin's shot goes high into hanging banners.

MKL offside

Bowns saves from Kearney

very quiet game so far

MKL shoot wide

Puck out of play

Bownsy solid thus far. no real attacking intent yet from either side

neutral zone face off

game time 5:25

Devils icing

MKL pen #22 2 minutes for tripping @5:59

Pacl the guilty man on tripping pen

Give us a PPG u Devils

MKL with SHG chance but Bowns denies it

Martin forces NM into glove save

7:56 gone so far

Face off in the Lightning zone

another Face off in the Lightning zone

Devils attack loses momentum

MKL fires high into netting

Hangbags infront of goal

Devils pen Strachan 2 minutes for roughing @8:53

MKL pressing a little now

Bowns covers

Face off in the Devils zone

1 min killed of Devils pen

Bowns with pad save

Devils FS

centre ice face off

MKL playing a bit of Dump and chase

Face off in the Lightning zone

Devils very low key performance so far, getting turned over alot

Pacl pen served by other MKL player as Pacl is MKL netminder

Martin shot saved

MKL offside

game time is 12:44

MKL dominating game at moment

Devils a little passive tonight

Devils need to lift their tempo and intensity some

Pacl covers lame shot

Face off in the Lightning zone

Joey Haddad collides with Pacl

neutral ice face off

MKL shot takes deflection wrongfooting Bowns but it goes wide

Devils trying to set up something but get turned over

Bowns parries MKL shot away

gametime 17:30

icing call against MKL

Face off in the Lightning zone

Martin shot gets blocked

Haddad with a shot but straight at Pacl

who gathers and covers the puck

final 2 mins of 1st period

Josh Batch hits MKL player hard

20 seconds left

offside against Devils

MKL pen 2 minutes for Slashing #79 @19:52

Buzzer ends 1st period.

Stoflet was the guilty man there

so Devils will have just under 2 mins on PP at start of 2nd

Latest scores: Braehead 0 Dundee 1; Nottingham 0 Steelers 0; Manchester 0 Guildford 0; Fife 0 Coventry 1

Last night Belfast 6 Fife 4

Apparrently Myers went close as the buzzer sounded but no goal

Latest 1-1 now in Braehead. Blaze 2-0 up in Fife

SOGs MKL 6 Devils 18

time for a cuppa i think

Refs out skating round

Devils coming out now

about to start 2nd

and we are underway

Devils on PP for 1 min 47 seconds

Icing called

Face off in the Devils zone

no real pattern to game yet

face off centre ice

poor PP so far

MKL pressuring

Issackson scores @22:11

Kearney not Issackson the scorer

Kearney not Issackson the scorer

assisted by King

Hopefully that will wake the Devils from their Slumber

Pacl covers

Devils trying to raise their game now

MKL pen Kearney2 minutes for slashing @ 23:53

Pacl saves.Face off in the Lightning zone

Fournier trying a shot but wide

Devils PP is poor tonight

MKL FS

MKL FS

Face off in the Lightning zone

Joey Haddad trying to set up

but Devils offence misfiring tonight

Delayed pen against Devils

2 minutes for slashing Reddick @27:45

Benti cant get puck away

20 secs left on PK

Devils FS

Pacl saves to deny Devils

Slick passing now from Devils

but nothing at end of it

Devils have upped their intensity.

Pacl saves and covers from Richardson

Face off in the Lightning zone

Pacl saves

Lets go Devils rings out around around arena

Face off in the Lightning zone

game time 33:10

Pacl busier of two netminders

Face off in the Lightning zone

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL #1

Benti scores at 33:40

assists Hotham and Ulmer

Benti with a wrister infront of goal between two face off circles

Bowns scrambling across his crease but puck cleared

Pacl saves Fournier's shot

@35:44

Face off in the Lightning zone

Face off in the Lightning zone

Joey Martin proving himself to be a pest

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL #2

Devils shot goes in off MKL skate.Joey Martin credited with goal

this is better from Devils

Devils 2nd goal at 37:02

GGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL #3

another deflected goal for Devils

@18:36

Tylor Strachan the scorer assists Reddick and Bentivoglio

Devils have grabbed this game by the scruff of the neck

buzzer goes to end 2nd period

Good period for Devils but I think MKL will be rueing their bad luck

Latest scores: Braehead 3 Dundee 1; Nottingham 0 Sheffield 1; Manchester 2 Guildford 0; Fife 0 Coventry 2

SOGs MKL 4 Devils 20, I dont know who is counting these? A member of the Red Army?

back in time for 3rd

well lets finish this game and look forward to the visit of the Panthers tomorrow

teams return to ice

about to re start

and we are off and skating

puck cleared by Devils

MK called for icing

Face off in the Lightning zone

Pacl glove save

Another Face off in the Lightning zone

MKL clear

Watched a few games of Olympic hockey today good quality play so far

Japan v Sweden was a bit feisty.

Devils pressing MKL back in their own D zone

long shift this one as Devils keep pressure on

MKL Break and Bowns saves

Kearney winding up a few of his former Devils colleagues

Face off in the Devils zone

Bowns saves with his leg pads

Asselin with breakaway

but shoots wide

game time 45:25

another long shift there.

Haddad hit the post in that last attack

MK Icing

MK Pen Kearney 2 minutes for elbowing @46:09

Martin with shot blocked

Give us a PPG u Devils

MKL clear puck up ice

Devils pen Benti 2 minutes for tripping @47:57

Devils now on PK

as Kearney's pen ends

Fournier clears puck

MKL looking threatening

Devils FS

Benti on the fly cant quite gather puck

Devils really pushing for another goal

Bowns goes to Bench for additional forward

MKL pen Griffin 2 minutes for tripping @ 51:16

Devils PP

Verrault-Paul is marshalled wide of Bowns' goal

40 secs left on PP

MKL FS

Bowns back in Net

GGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL #4 Joey Haddad scores it

assist Faryna

and Hotham at 53:38

game time 55:00

Devils running the clock down now

Devils try to set up a move

game time 57:00

Devils fans shouting 'we are no 1'

final two mins

Devils with a shot wide

1:28 remainig

Face off in the Lightning zone

RED ARMY ring out around arena

in competition with MK BARMY ARMY

Bowns covers final minute of game

Face off in the Devils zone

Bowns saved from Doucet

27 secs remaining

great amosphere in arena

Buzzer goes to end game DEVILS win

thanks to Rachael or Rachel for her great texts. safe trip home Rachael

Devils game first to finish tonight

Devils MOM is Sean Bentivoglio

MKL MOM is PACL

rightly so in my opinion.

latest scores before I go

Braehead 3 Dundee 1

Nottingham O Sheffield 3

Manchester 3 Guildford 0

Fife 1 Coventry 2

Thats it from me, Join me tomorrow for the visit of the Panthers to the iAW tomorrow.

Safe trip home to the Red Army and our texter Rachel.

Goodnight all. Nos Da Pawb.