GAME THREAD: Steelers v Stars Saturday, 5th February 7:00pm

[Jayboy]

Steelers Host the Dundee Stars....

[BontSteeler]

Can't afford anymore slip ups, a must win game at the Arena.

I'll go Steelers 5-2

Dowd x2
Vallerand
Eberle
Todd

[Nathan]

Maximum points needed from both games this weekend.

[JoeySlats#13]

Could we be at full strength for once if Davey returns?

Big result needed especially after the Stars win over us recently.

Think we'll see:

Latal-Polak-Vallerand
Eberle-Armstrong-Dowd
Sointu-Hodgman-Mosey
Traversa-ROTATE-Jono

ASD-Todd
Schulze-Davey
Ellerby-Jones

Brust
Warburton

Confident of a win if we come out sharp early on and set the tone. I'll go for 5-1.

[Bryan]

A huge shots on goal count in our favour but no goals suggests we are lacking sharpshooters

[House_of_Steel]

If we want to win the league we seriously need to replace the lost output of Connelly and Delucas goals, that would translate to an impact goal scorer much in the mould of Coughler at Cardiff.

[SteelerBlade]

Making hard work of a poor Dundee side. Dominating offensively but nowhere near clinical enough. Then basic defensive errors giving them life.

Should’ve buried them ages ago.

[Clowne57]

This is getting so boring. Where have all our goals gone? I know we haven't replace DeLuca & Connelly with like for like but come on. Do we practice shooting at a football net?

[SteelerBlade]

Some slack D and dubious officials, but 2 points on the board again.

Must’ve been really poor to lose to them in Dundee.

[paul johnston]

People keep saying replace the goals of Conns and Deluca, but they weren't lighting the board greatly this year.
I enjoyed that game because again we are raising the pace for longer periods of game time.
However we continue to struggle as our shots to goal ratio continues to be low, and sometimes leaden, soft defending and netminding.
Pacha's Stars are a goo little team considering budget. Honest pros playing hard with a smattering of skill for a full 60 minutes.