Saturday's Results
by 23 September 2007
Basingstoke Bison 1 Manchester Phoenix 2
Edinburgh Capitals 4 Cardiff Devils 2
Newcastle Vipers 1 Coventry Blaze 7
Nottingham Panthers 6 Belfast Giants 4
Sheffield Steelers 3 Hull Stingrays 1
Coventry had a fantastic night in Newcastle. Adam Calder, deservedly won the man of the match award after scoring 4 goals. It had, on paper, seemed like a close match but penalty trouble put pay to Newcastle's ambition.
Edinburgh continue to impress and was never threatened by Cardiff.
Nottingham Panthers raced into a four goal lead against Belfast only to be pegged back in the second period. Man of the match Johan Molin finally made it safe with his third and Panthers sixth late in the third period. Panthers, yet to win away this season, travel to Manchester without the injured Mark Richardson and Jim Shepherd, who was given a match penalty late in the game for spearing. That could be extended after Elite league chiefs have viewed the video from the game.
Veteran Tony Hand scored the opening goal for Manchester only to see Basingstoke level. A low scoring game was finally settled by KC Timmons who scored with only 34 second remaining on the clock.
Sheffield Steelers had fairly comfortable win against Hull. The Steelers was three goals up early in the second period and despite a Jeff Glowa goal, Hull never really looked like getting back into the game.
