Manchester Storm celebrated a four-point weekend with a five-doels thrashing from Fife Flyers in competition game, following a road on Nottingham less than 24 hours earlier.
“If you get those results, it’s good for trust!” Started with Storm Brady Gilmour. “We have been in the neighborhood in the last few weeks, a few tight games, but we were still not overly happy, of course with the results and only our game in general. I think we are taking the right steps to get there, and it translated to the game tonight.”
In a relatively quiet first period, Manchester built a 2-0 lead on the way to the break thanks to two late goals. Before that, their best chance came when a puck turned out of the zone, Gilmour saw it down from the sky to escape himself, although he eventually overhauled and could not take the backhandschot away.
The breakthrough came quickly with two goals in succession. Brandon Cutler tore a house of the Faceoff tips with a little less than a minute to go, before Gilmour scored on an almost identical piece about 20 seconds later.
The second period followed a similar pattern, while Storm continued their theme of scoring in bunches. This time it was Gilmour who started things instead of finishing them, so that he brought his second of the game at home after a bouncing puck perfectly landed on his stick in the fold. JD Dudek followed at 28:18 with an excellent wrap on Shane Owen to bring the score to 4-0.
After Brandon Cutler and Ian Scheid had dropped the gloves, it was the visitors who got the next goal – Garet Hunt tapped the rear post at 32:24 to get his way on the board.
Two per period was the trend for Storm, and that took place in the third. Cutler converted on the PowerPlay to bring the score to 5-1 at 47:41, before Kaleb added a sixth with just over seven minutes left of the 1,867-strong crowd.
Gilmour, who ended the weekend with three goals and four points, added: “I think when you are on the ice, you want to contribute somehow. There are different ways to contribute, but it is clearly good to get to the score sheet. A lot of credit goes to the boys I play with:
Photo: Mark Ferris
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