Match Night Live

Good Afternoon Hockey folk. Join me (Russky) from about 5:40pm to see if the Devils can make it a four point weekend as the Panthers visit the IAW for this League game.

If you wish to send us a comment and/or prediction please do so by emailing Matchnightlive@gmail.com and I will do my best to include it in the coverage up to the end of the first period break.

Until then I hope you all have a good day.

Hi folks. Croeso- welcome to our coverage this evening of the game at the IAW where the Panthers are the visitors.

Two games already underway Manchester lead Belfast 4-3 at the SSE and Blaze are 1-0 up at home to MKL

Three predictions so far: Dai goes for 4-1 Devils win, Hazel predicts 5-2 where as Pete goes for his almost customary 6-1 prediction.

Tonights scheduled refs are Mike Hicks and Matt Thomson with Ilia Kisil and Lee Young are the Linos.

Warm up drawing to a close.

Our lone anonymous texter is in place and trying to hog all the mobile signal he can muster at the IAW.

5-3 now to Manchester in Belfast.

Coventry and MKL tied at 2-2 at the Skydome.

Same line up expected for Devils with Louis scratched and Paris taking his place in the line up

Tomas Rutkis is in the Devils line up however

Panthers seem to have a depleted Defensive option with only 4 active skaters for this game with Lindhagen dropping back to D duties.

Latest scores Belfast 3 Manchester 5 end of 2nd

Coventry 3 MKL 2 nearing end of 1st period

usual intro vid in progress

Devils in all red tonight. Panthers in white shirts and Dark shorts

Its a near sell out tonight at the IAW

No Dr Piggot icing tonight

Devils have a 82.4 % PK and a win % of 78.8%

Anthem time.

Panthers will be smarting from a shut out loss last night at home to the Steelers so will want to prove they are a force to be reckoned with.

Galbraith Between the pipes for Panthers

We are underway

Asselin Benti and Ulmer line starts the game

chance denied by Galbraith

Haddad Pope and Myers line on next

Devils started with real intent keeping Galbraith really busy

Face off in the Panthers zone

scrappy play leads Devils to retreat to their own D zone

Face off in the Panthers zone

Face off in the Panthers zone

2 on 1 for Devils but shot goes wide

Batch and Myers combining well

Devils offside

neutral zone face off

this is my 2nd fix of hockey action today having earlier watched the womens olympic hockey match between Canada and the Olympic Athlete Russian team

Asselin and Ulmer combine but denied by Galbraith

the Canadians won comfortably

Strachan with a backdoor chance

Panthers not looking too threatening.

Devils pen 2 minutes for slashing Matt Pope at 5:49

Panthers score

scored by Sauve

PPG there

Panthers seem to have woken up

profuse apologies having a few technical difficulties here.

Lost touch with my texter

just re established connectioin

Devils on 5 on 3 PP gametime 6:50

Pope fires wide.

Fournier with a chance

Devils cant put biscuit in basket

Panthers back to 4 skaters

Galbraith gathers

1st panthers pen Farmer 2 minutes for holding @ 12:15

2nd Panthers pen 2 2 minutes for holding Billingsley @ 12:15

Panthers now FS

icing call against panthers

Face off in the Panthers zone

texts coming through irregularly still, please bear with us

Devils prevent Panthers shot on Bowns

Sauve shoots just wide

Morrisette on back door and misses the puck with and air shot

Asselin in possession gets turned over.

2 mins left in 1st.

icing call again

Myers with a chance

Galbraith saves. followed by minor handbags

Face off in the Panthers zone

Galbraith with double save.

Gagnon and Strachan having words

Sauve takes exception to Martins efforts to extract puck from Galbraith

Benti goes so close

buzzer goes to end period

Manchester lead Belfast 6-3 now

latest scores Dundee 1 Braehead 2; Coventry 3 MKL 2;

Guildford 1 Steelers 0

Panthers goal now credited to Brown with assists from Sauve and Perlini @ 6:32

SOGs Devils 10 Panthers 4

back soon

we are underway in 2nd

we are underway in 2nd

Devils have plenty of time to pull this game back

game time 21:05

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils Icing

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL #1

Faryna scores Delayed penalty goal

assist Fournier

Benti shoots Galbraith saves

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL #2

@22:25

Faryna scores his 2nd

assist Morrisette and Bowns

scored by Faryna

getting texts out of sequence

game time 25:25

will recap on Devils goal details later

Devils having to defend at moment

Panthers pen holding the stick @ 27:18

Mokshantshev guilty man

Devils 1st goal scored by Faryna burying puck he he is fanning round @21:28

Devils 2nd goal Faryna who fires puck through Galbrraith's 5 hole @ 22:25

Morrisette with two quick chances

one saved one wide

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL #3 Layne Ulmer

assist Pope

@ 27:29

Dean SMith replaces Matt Thomson as one of the refs

2nd assist on Devils 3rd goal by Fournier

Haddad with a chance but it goes wide

Devils on top at moment

result Belfast 3 Manchester 6

Devils 2 on 1 Benti tries to go it alone with Faryna waiting for the puck

Faryna fires one high and not so handsome

Face off in the Panthers zone

nothing comes of it though

Batch on the breakaway but loeses possession at vital time

Icing called against Devils

gametime 33:09

Face off in the Devils zone

Devils attack stutters with a pass going astray

Benti and Derlago having words

Face off in the Panthers zone

Benti and Derlago go to sin bin both getting 2 minutes for roughing

gametime 34:30

game gone into scrappy mode at moment

Morrisette with a slapshot which is gloved by Galbraith

GGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL #4 Joey Haddad scores @ 35:49

Great goal from Haddad showing his class

Faryna and crowder combine

but attack gets shut down

game time 38:30

correction: assists on 4th goal Morrisette and Fournier @ 35:49

Devils pen Matt Pope 2 minutes for slashing 38:53

Buzzer goes to end a great period for the Devils with 4 unanswered goals

Fournier has been credited with 3 assists

candidate for MOM maybe?

Latest scores Dundee 3 Braehead 4; Coventry 4 MKL 3; Guildford 1 Sheffield 1; Late face off Edinburgh 0 Fife 0

Confirmed result: Belfast 3 Manchester 6

time for a cuppa

Zamboni still chasing its tail.

just want to say about the quality of the womens hockey at the Olympics is real top notch. watched Canada destroy OAR today with some great goals. If you get a chance to see any on the BBC red button or on Eurosport do so, you wont be disappointed.

back to the british variety with tonights game.

we are under way in the third period

Devils FS

Bowns saves a Panthers chance, rebound cleared

Pope sees his shot blocked by Clarke

Scramble in Panthers goal.

Panthers clear puck in nick of time

game time 42:04

Face off in the Panthers zone

cleared by Panthers

Bowns gloves puck

Face off in the Devils zone

Icing called against Devils

Face off in the Devils zone

Crowder with a big hit

Perlini taunting Hadded with the puck

Derlago's shot blocked

Panthers almost gifted the Devils a 1 on1 then

Dont forget to Join OJ on wednesday as the Devils travel to Guildford and then a double game road trip next weekend to Edinburgh and Nottingham.

while I will be in Bournemouth at a Skittles tournament and partaking of a few beers

Bowns saves from Perlini

Panthers, all credit to them, are still trying to get back into this game.

gametime 48:21

Face off in the Panthers zone

Devils looking a little disjointed at moment

icing called against Panthers

Face off in the Panthers zone

Face of re-set

Face off in the Panthers zone

myers to take the draw which he wins

Panthers clear the puck though

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL # 5 Justin Faryna gets his hat-trick at@50:24 on the back door

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL #6 Crowder scores

@ 50:42

Murdy replaces Bowns

Garnett replaces Galbraith

Faryna gets his fourth goal assisted by Morrisette.

Myers gets 2nd assist on Devils 5th goal

6th goal credited to Faryna of gamesheet but ACTUALLY scored by Crowder.

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Justin Faryna with his official 4th goal @53:37

7 goals in consecutive home games. not a bad strike rate

Devils pen 2 minutes for tripping Layne Ulmer at 56:30

what a game this is!

game time 57:35

in all the excitement i forgot to put up the 7th goal on the scoreboard

sorry folks!

1:35 remaining in the game

Perlini has a shot blocked

Panthers score a 3rd

2nd panthers goal scored by Zack Phillips at 56:43

Panthers 3rd goal scored by Save at 59:24

Game over Devils win 7-3

9 points clear at top of League.

Panthers MOM Yann Sauve

Devils MOM Justin Faryna

there's a surprise. NOT.

Thanks to our anonymous texter tonight. you know who you are even if everyone else doesnt.

Guildford beat Steelers 4-2

Coventry Blaze beat MKL 4-3

Braehead beat Dundee 4-3

and one from earlier Manchester beat Belfast 6-3

which leaves one remaining latest score:

Edinburgh 0 Fife 0. this started lated due to the Rugby at Murrayfield earlier this afternoon

thats it from me. Join OJ on wednesday for MNL coverage as the Devils travel to Guildford for a midweek league game.

Goodnight all. Nos Da Pawb.