Home to the Panthers Again!
It's time for the Revenge on the away loss, the win is important no matter what happened Wednesday night against the Storm..
Belfast are not likely to have dropped points to Glasgow or Guilford tomorrow so keeping the pressure on is no absolutely a must...
Definite response required to respond to the 3-0 shutout in Nottingham, hope we can extend our win streak to 5 with a convincing home performance.
Hoping that Hodgman is available after not finishing the game on Wednesday at Storm. His form seems to have risen again over the last stretch of games. If he's not I'm guessing this is where the Feldner signing comes in to play as he can fit in that top 6 role as Fox eluded to when he was discussing him being scratched over the last couple of games.
Could potentially see Barry start one of the weekend games as well as he returned to the bench on Wednesday, however, I would be giving Rok both starts at this stage and with his current form.
I've gone for a Steelers regulation win, think I'll go for 5-2.
Be interesting again to see what we do with the lines which obviously is impacted by the Hodgman injury concern. We seem to be much more mixed (largely down to injuries etc. I imagine) than Cardiff and Belfast who seem to have fixed line-ups. Belfast barely change a name on the sheet or the lines from game to game and Cardiff have managed to keep their top 2 forward lines the same for a good portion of the season.
It will be difficult to turn out a worse performance than we did in the 3-0 defeat.
If we apply ourselves and stick to the system we should be okay.
4 conceded in last 3 games including a trip away to Cardiff and a shutout in Manchester for the first time since their reformation is a promising sign defensively.
