GAME THREAD: Steelers v Blaze: Sat 11th Jan

[mark]

Hardest of the two games this weekend. Lets hope the break has helped the players rest and recover.

[greeny]

Fingers crossed the winning run continues and hopefully the team is getting back to early season form,,,

[Doom]

On paper this is certainly the much tougher of the two games this weekend.

Coventry are a young team with some really good pickups by the coach.

As things currently stand we don't have any of the top 10 goal scorers, but Coventry have two with Seitz 3rd and Luciani 6th.

They're also currently better than us on powerplays and penalty kills, so let's hope there's plenty of 5 on 5.

If we continue our recent improvement then I'd expect a fairly routine victory, but if we play like a few weeks ago we'll lose this.

Greenfield has looked back to his best in recent weeks and that has been huge for us. We really need him to stay fit, otherwise I fear our title challenge will rapidly fade.

Regards

Doom

[BontSteeler]

On paper this is certainly the much tougher of the two games this weekend.

Coventry are a young team with some really good pickups by the coach.

As things currently stand we don't have any of the top 10 goal scorers, but Coventry have two with Seitz 3rd and Luciani 6th.

They're also currently better than us on powerplays and penalty kills, so let's hope there's plenty of 5 on 5.

If we continue our recent improvement then I'd expect a fairly routine victory, but if we play like a few weeks ago we'll lose this.

Greenfield has looked back to his best in recent weeks and that has been huge for us. We really need him to stay fit, otherwise I fear our title challenge will rapidly fade.

Regards

Doom

If Greenfield goes down again, its season over for us imo Doom.

[mark]

Vaino returns to the line up today

[Jayboy]

Vaino returns to the line up today

Who

[Doom]

Looking at the team sheet no Dowd or Vally.

We have 7d or 8d if you count Shudra, although he'll be a forward.

It will be interesting to see which import d Fox throws forward.

Regards

Doom

[Jayboy]

Veeti Vainio would make most sense to me, don't break the other D pairings up.. And isn't he supposed to be an offence minded defender anyway.?

It is a while since we saw him

Jayboy

[mark]

End P1

Steelers 0-0 Blaze

[smbmetal]

A slow start from us. Very average period.

Our shirt numbers are impossible to see watching the stream.

Thought Brandon Whistle was playing with Nordström wearing his shirt number! Can’t we afford a shirt for him?