Dundee Stars 3 - 1 Excel Hull Stingrays
The Excel Hull Stingrays tonight made it four games, four losses in Dundee, losing out to the Stars for the first time this season - going down by three goals to one - to add to three defeats there on Tayside last season.
Having run the league leading Belfast Giants close last night at the Hull Arena, the Stingrays were expected to be in with a shout of their second victory of the 11/12 campaign.
However, a strong first period showing from the Stars saw them outshoot Sylvain Cloutier's team 19-10 and lead 1-0, from an Alan Mazur point shot, and the home side did not look back from there on.
Though the shot count against the Rays - who were without Derek Campbell after he received a match penalty last night - continued to rise rapidly in the second and throughout the game, Jereme Tendler was able to level the scoreline after 37 minutes on one of just six shots in the period - handing Jack Watkins his first point as a Stingray along the way.
However, despite the late second period goal the Stars persevered into the third, netting through player-coach Dan Ceman and American Jarrett Konkle to deservedly claim their first two points of the league season and leapfrog the Stingrays into seventh place.
One positive for the night was netminder Christian Boucher - who deservedly picked up the Stingrays Man of the Match award having turned away a staggering 56 Dundee shots - on what was an off night for Sylvain Cloutier's side - who are now four games without a win for the second time this season.
It seems to be a constant week-to-week struggle for consistent performances for Cloutier and the Stingrays, and there are no let ups next weekend as they take on Nottingham at home in the league before travelling in Coventry in the Challenge Cup.
The Excel Hull Stingrays tonight made it four games, four losses in Dundee, losing out to the Stars for the first time this season - going down by three goals to one - to add to three defeats there on Tayside last season.
Having run the league leading Belfast Giants close last night at the Hull Arena, the Stingrays were expected to be in with a shout of their second victory of the 11/12 campaign.
However, a strong first period showing from the Stars saw them outshoot Sylvain Cloutier's team 19-10 and lead 1-0, from an Alan Mazur point shot, and the home side did not look back from there on.
Though the shot count against the Rays - who were without Derek Campbell after he received a match penalty last night - continued to rise rapidly in the second and throughout the game, Jereme Tendler was able to level the scoreline after 37 minutes on one of just six shots in the period - handing Jack Watkins his first point as a Stingray along the way.
However, despite the late second period goal the Stars persevered into the third, netting through player-coach Dan Ceman and American Jarrett Konkle to deservedly claim their first two points of the league season and leapfrog the Stingrays into seventh place.
One positive for the night was netminder Christian Boucher - who deservedly picked up the Stingrays Man of the Match award having turned away a staggering 56 Dundee shots - on what was an off night for Sylvain Cloutier's side - who are now four games without a win for the second time this season.
It seems to be a constant week-to-week struggle for consistent performances for Cloutier and the Stingrays, and there are no let ups next weekend as they take on Nottingham at home in the league before travelling in Coventry in the Challenge Cup.
