Saturday 10th November 2012, Phoenix missing their Player coach Tony Hand who was away on International duty with the GB squad took on Peterborough and wanting to avenge the shootout lost a couple of weeks back down in Bretton.
It took 27 seconds into the game for Phoenix to strike first thanks some good board play by Andy Mckinney who was moved to to the 1st line in Hands absence, and Michel Psurny who slid it outfront and Flaten pushed it goalwards and went through the five-hole of King in Phantoms nets.
Phoenix dominated the early part of the period in peppering King with shots in a rather dull period to be fair. Phantoms slowly got into the game and after a Defensive error Ondrej Lauko scored a fantastic goals wristing it top corner pass Fone in goals for a 1-1 game and how it finished after 20mins.
2nd period Phoenix started off like the 1st scoring just after a min with a Rob Schnabel shot not being stopped by King and going in net for 2-1. A couple mins later Phoenix pressured the Phantoms again and when the puck came to Schanbel he had time to set himself and BLAST the puck with a Hard slapshot ringing of the pipework and extend lead to 2 for a 3-1 lead assisted by EX-Phantom Richard Bentham in the 23min.
Mckinneys play brought him a well worked goal which he shot to make it 4-1 at 35min with Joachim Flaten and Michel Psurny assisting on it.
At 38 mins it was that man again Andy McKinney scoring for 5-1 with Flaten assisting, Peterborough seems to have lost hope and the points staying in Manchester. So you`d be forgivening for thinking it may be another 9-1 win or may hit 10 on current play after the period ended..
Oh how wrong we were.. a TOO MANY MEN penalty called on Phoenix lead to the Phantom going on the Powerplay and James Ferrara scoring for 6-2 at 44mins.
A few mins later at 49mins Jeff Glowa scored at close range for 6-3 and lead to Phoenix calling a TIMEOUT to try and stop the momentum and talk things over.
Phoenix were still rattled a bit at this point and when Cieran Long attempt bounced off the underside of bar and just over the line you`d think that would kill any hopes Peterboro had..
Peterboro struck back shortly after with Sladok and James Ferrara assisting for Tom Norton to score to cut the deficit to 2 and get a another consolation goal.
Then came the Turning point, REF made a DODGY CALL on Long for “CLIPPING” when it was a perfect Hip Check. Leading Rob Schnabel and a few Phoenix players remonstrating to the official over the call .Phantoms went on PP again & and like before scored less than a min into it for a 6-5 Scoreline at 55:18 . And lead to Schnabel lose his cool and got a Misconduct from Pering who for the 3rd game in a row at home Kick one of our players out.
Schnabel got a 10+GAME for Abuse of Official and Phantoms took it to Phoenix then with 42 seconds left in the game. A Tom Duggan shot was saved by King but a loose puck not covered by netminder fell to James Archer and poked it home to FINALLY see off Peterboro, though a couple of theirs wasn`t happy with refs decision. Horn sounded for a 7-5 Win and one they can puff theirs cheeks at as one they nearly threw away again v Peterboro.
MOTM : PHANTOMS – 67# Ondrej Lauko, PHOENIX- 91# Andy McKinney
Phoenix sit 2nd but joint top with Basingstoke Bison who lead on Head 2 Head with phoenix. with them 2-0 in series.
TOMORROW Phoenix travel a couple of hours down to Shropshire for the Bottom placed Telford Tigers though Telford ALWAYS ALWAYS RAISS their game more for us than anyone it seems. And Bison play the 2nd of their Double header with Reigning League champs Guildford Flames @ The Spectrum in Guildford.
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