Edinburgh Capitals 3-4 Excel Hull Stingrays
The Excel Hull Stingrays grabbed their first win of the year at the third time of trying in Edinburgh tonight, coming home with a 4-3 victory that sees them return to Hull with two out of four points available from a weekend in Scotland.
For the third consecutive game this season the Rays found themselves down by two goals, thanks to Edinburgh markers either side of the first intermission from Iain Bowie and import dangerman Alex Kim.
But once again the Rays fought back to tie the scores with captain Kurtis Dulle netting his first of the year before Matti Uusivirta scored his second of the season 60 seconds before the end of the period.
It wasn't until five minutes into the third that the visitors finally took control of the tie with Andrew Coburn scoring his own first of the year on the powerplay and Jereme Tendler netting shorthanded just minutes later to extend the score to 4-2.
Never liking to make things easy on themselves or their fans, the Stingrays then allowed Edinburgh to pull the deficit back down to one again through Kim after 55 minutes.
The home side then had a goal disallowed in the dying minutes of the game but Sylvain Cloutier's men clung on to the victory and gratefully grabbed a much needed first two points of the campaign.
Stingray scorers: Dulle, Uusivirta, Coburn, Tendler
Edinburgh scorers: Bowie, Kim (2)
SOG: 33-42
PIM: -
