GAME THREAD: Stars v Steelers: Sun 11th Jan

[greeny]

Definitely easiest match up of w/end,,, but still got to beat whats in front of you so a good result at the end of the day and always good to see the goaltender getting a shutout,,,

[Bryan]

A whole different feeling tonight. More jump and skill. Have they all been poorly and recovered? Faceoffs ended even which is acceptable. Watling beginning to show signs of his old self, Balmas continues as a goal machine. Heard even in the circle. Greener does it again. All this being short benched and missing the talisman Dowd. Next weekend will be interesting if they can play like this against a better team.

[steeler pete]

Well done. So frustrating the 4 previous results. Not so much the 6 goals but keeping a clean sheet. Something we’ve not done for a while.

Whatever was done to achieve this needs repeating and not relapsing.

[Doom]

Good to get the win to build some confidence, but it's too late in the league now, that's gone.

Hopefully we can build some momentum for the challenge cup.

Regards

Doom

[MLL79]

Some good news to end the weekend. Sounds like they were fired up.

Thanks as always to the guys on here for the live updates - again much appreciated

[jas]

To be honest I do not think any of us could have seen that coming off the back of recent results. I am baffled as to how it happened but just glad it has

[smbmetal]

Pleased to get the win and for another shutout for Greenfield.

I'm guessing Tansey was back on D? We're far better when he plays his proper position. To @MLL79 point about being fired up...........we should be fired up every single game, not just 1 game out of 3 in this weekend's example.

Dundee will finish bottom of the EIHL, so these types of games have to be put away, which we have done admirably on this occasion. All our nearest rivals also won, so this was a minimum requirement here.

By comparison, Nottingham's 3 game in 3 days Scottish road trip earlier in the season gained them 5 points out of 6.

Cardiff's 3 game Scottish road trip? Two points.

Two points isn't good enough if you want to win the league, which I think is now between Belfast & Nottingham this year.

After the Belfast weekend, if it's either a split weekend or favourable for Belfast, I think even the most optimistic of us would concede our league title chances are gone.

[MLL79]

Just looking at the league standings, worse case scenario at present would be 6 points adrift - ie Belfast could go top with 46 points (us, Nott and Cardiff all on 29 games) if they win both games in hand. If they don’t then we are 5 points adrift.

That’s not as bad as I was notionally thinking as things stand?

Looking at other results Nott beat Fife (7-3 was it?), Cardiff beat Glasgow (just! 1-0) so, annoyingly (lol), our nearest competitors are getting the wins where we didn’t this weekend which could have limited the damage.

I can see where Fox is coming from that it’s very similar to last year as it is still close at this point with only 5 potentially 6 points between the top 4, but it is surely getting to the point where we can only soak up one or two more league losses maximum to keep up - that’s a tall order and is relying on our competition losing 5 - 7 games (some of those to us of course )