Giants Home Double Header

4th Dec 2014 | Posted by Skippy

This weekend sees the Giants in town for an all too rare home double header for the Devils. With the Giants in 4th place in the league and the Devils in 5th place these games really are vital for both teams.

In a break from our usual game previews this one is fairly brief as I’m pushed for time this week.

Last weekend saw the Giants in action twice starting on Saturday November 29th where they booked another match up with the Devils in the Challenge cup with a 3 -2 overtime win over the Fife Flyers.

Highlights of which you can see here -

http://www.belfastgiants.com/archives/highlights-fife-flyers-2-3-stena-line-belfast-giants/

While Sunday again saw them win another, this time over the Steelers 4 – 3 in a Penalty shootout.

Highlights of which you can see here -

http://www.belfastgiants.com/archives/highlights-stena-line-belfast-giants-4-3-sheffield-steelers/

The Giants web site has provided some handy stats for the upcoming weekend which I’ve mercilessly “borrowed” as follows..

The Numbers

All time record (Win-Loss-Overtime Loss-Shootout Loss-Draw): 104 games, 61-27-5-4-7, 338 goals for, 257 goals against, 8-1-0-0-1 in last 10 games, 3-1 season record.

Giants top scorers vs Cardiff: Keefe 6 points (2+4), Sandrock 6 points (0+6), 3 players with 4 points.

Devils top scorers vs Belfast: Clarkson 6 points (3+3), Myers 4 points (1+3), Marsh 3 points (3+0), Hotham 3 points (0+3)

Giants powerplay vs Cardiff: 20.0% (4-for-20)

Devils powerplay vs Belfast: 17.4% (4-for-23)

Brent Walton enters the game with a 6 game point streak (15 points, 5+10)

Joey Martin (12 points, 5+7) and Jake Morissette (11 points, 3+8) both enter the game with 5 game point streaks

Team Stats

Power Play: Overall – 21.6% (2nd overall, down 1), Home 22.8% (3rd, up 1), Away 20.4% (4th)

Penalty Kill: Overall – 84.7% (4th overall), Home 80.6% (9th, down 1), Away 89.3% (1st, up 1)

Other Stats and Milestones

Colin Shields 1 goal from becoming the all time franchise goal scoring leader. (Awada 149, Shields 149, Peacock 132)

Colin Shields 2 goals from 200 in the EIHL.

Robby Sandrock 6 PIMs from 1500 career.

Mike Kompon 4 points from 600 career.

Kevin Saurette 2 points from 500 career.

Adam Keefe 3 games from 200 as a Giant.

Adam Keefe 10 PIMs from tying Shane Johnson for 2nd highest in franchise history. (Schulte 975, Johnson 718, Keefe 708)

Adam Keefe 10 points from 100 as a Giant

Kevin Phillips 6 games from 700 career.

Steve Thornton 1 win from tying Dave Whistle for 2nd in all time in Giants coaching wins. (Christiansen 137, Whistle 105, Thornton 104, Courtenay 103)

http://www.belfastgiants.com/archives/cardiff-vs-stena-line-belfast-giants-the-numbers/

The Giants fans seem to think that they have this weekend in the bag with only 3%, and I’m guessing that’s a few of us ?,of those polled predicting a “double” for the Devils while 65% think the Giants will walk away with the four points.

How do YOU think this weekend's 'Double Header' in Cardiff will end up?

• Two GIANT Wins (65%, 75 Votes)
• Split Series - One win each (29%, 33 Votes)
• TOO close to call.. (3%, 4 Votes)
• Two Losses For Belfast (3%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 115

Both camps are being fairly tight lipped on Injuries in the run up to the weekend so we can only assume that both sides will be at something approaching full strength? Or you know, not?  Both Andrew Lord and Trevor Hendrikx were missing for the Devils last weekend  but might be back this weekend, or not ?

We will be running the 'ridiculously childish and disgustingly biased' Match Night Live service for this game,as always expect name calling, slurs and bad jokes about keepers not being able to stop beach balls in epic proportions, at the usual location of http://www.the-inferno.co.uk/mnl

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