Elite League: Fife Flyers 3, Guildford Flames 5. Challenge Cup, Group B: Edinburgh Capitals 2, Dundee Stars 1. Challenge Cup, Group A: Sheffield Steelers 3, Braehead Clan 2.
Sergei Banashkov and Dylan Anderson netted for Edinburgh Capitals in Challenge Cup, Group B, to complete a weekend win double over misfiring Dundee Stars.
Banashkov scored after 34 minutes with Pavel Vorobyev and Igor Valeyev assisting and Anderson’s strike arrived 11 minutes later.
He was set up by lively Mike Cazzola but Stars’ lifeline came from Gabriel Levesque two minutes after than with Riley Stadel assisting.
In Yorkshire, Andreas Valdix netted with 15 seconds left to earn Sheffield Steelers a 3-2 Challenge Cup win over Braehead Clan.
Steelers led 2-0 after 37 minutes with goals from John Armstrong and Jonathan Phillips but Ville Hamalainen and Ryan Potulny scored 22 seconds apart deep in the middle session to level.
Fife Flyers hopes of a weekend win double evaporated when they were burned by Elite League newcomers Guildford Flames.
Flyers outshot their visitors 27-31 but the English side counted where it matter most.
Kruise Reddick claimed a double for the visitors and John Dunbar made sure the points were heading over the Border with an empty net strike, Reddick assisting, with just over a minute left.
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