GAME THREAD: Cardiff Devils v Sheffield Steelers Thursday, 5th January 7:00pm

[Bryan]

That often happens to a recording even for their massive coverage of the nhl but if you watch via play live they normally cover the whole event. I’ve got used to recording the program following which covers it.

[mark]

Kozun starts instead of Bowns

[Bryan]

Greenfield keeping steelers in it’s we commit loads of giveaways and risky passes

[mark]

Disappointed to lose but a good game to watch. Petgrave was immense.

[Clowne57]

That was a pretty even game, stray passes from us and a good display of goal tending. Thought we deserved a point but move on to the next game.

[smbmetal]

Cardiff just about deserved it. I firmly believe that playing lesser opposition for our last 9 games has dragged us down to that level.

Our performance tonight would easily have been good enough to beat Fife and Dundee, but Cardiff are a higher level and I think it showed tonight.

We can’t win them all of course, but a reminder that we have to up our level against the top 3 sides.

[BontSteeler]

Only managed to watch the last 10 minutes as been and had an MRI tonight.

Thought we battled well & were very lucky not to get that 2nd that would've got us a point.

Can't win them all, dust ourselves down, lick ourselves back up & go again.

Vital that we get those 2 points on Saturday up in Fife.

[Nathan]

Really enjoyed the game despite the result.

Greenfield is giving us a chance every night.

Petgrave played well (he's starting to grow on me), also.

[Doom]

I didn't watch the game, but I regularly checked the tracking on the Elite Website and based on that it certainly looked like Cardiff deserved the win.

During the first two periods we were heavily outshot by more than 2 to 1 for much of the time and it was a similar story with the faceoffs, with Cardiff dominating in the circle.

I got the impression we probably had a fairly strong 3rd period, but it was too little too late.

We really need to come out at the start of games much harder, because we'll struggle to get away with slow starts against the very best opposition like Cardiff and Belfast.

Hopefully we'll be back to winning ways against Fife on Saturday, but I still fancy Belfast for the title, especially now they've thrown so much additional money against their squad.

Regards

Doom

[NinjaBreadMark]

Can you sign up for just 1 month then?

A year or so ago one of my pals had to sign up for 12 months. Although that’s when it was premier sports.

Sorry, probably a bit late now but haven't been on here since last post.... Yes, you can sign up for a month at a time for £15 per month, or if you commit to the 12 month deal I think it is £12.99 per month. We don't really make enough use of it to do the 12 month so just did 1 and will cancel. We have season tickets, so the only time we will need viaplay is if it's an away game we can't make, and happens to be on viaplay... which I don't think is many (if any more at all this season?)