GAME THREAD: Steelers v. Storm. Sun, 18th April.

[Mart]

Steelers as home team.

[smbmetal]

Hoping the feistiness from the previous game continues in this one.

Fingers crossed the stream is reliable.

[SteelerBlade]

Need to come out much faster in the first than we have done the last few games.

Manchester will be working hard & being physical for the full 60 so unless we can match their effort we won’t get anything from this game.

As always, netminding will be our biggest issue, will Warburton get his first pro start?

And can we defend better as a 5 man unit, we know we have goals in the side but we have shown to be very vulnerable defensively.

[SteelerBlade]

Manchester name an unchanged side from the one that lost 4-3 to Coventry.

Murphy, Gulliver & Lutwyche the scratches.

[SteelerBlade]

Steelers make two changes.

Curtis Warburton makes his first pro start.

And Adam Jones is scratched in favour of a 12th forwards, Bálint Pákozdi will make his debut.

[SteelerBlade]

And we’re off!

[SteelerBlade]

Warburton denies a certain goal with an incredible glove save!

[SteelerBlade]

Storm to the PP as Hewitt trips Ben Davies.

[SteelerBlade]

We’ll have 4-on-4 for 17 seconds before a Steelers PP.

Eberle’s fast hands draws Fawcett into a trip.

[SteelerBlade]

Storm goal. Steelers fail to clear the zone and Maxime Fortier skates in all alone and fires high. 0-1.