Elite League: Nottingham Panthers 4, Fife Flyers 2
TWO goals inside the final four minutes ended Fife Flyers brave bid to earn valuable road points at high-flying Nottingham Panthers, but they pushed the Midlands combine hard.
The Nottingham club’s victory earned the club their sixth straight win in the Elite League.
Earlier, Fife had the best possible start in front of a crowd of 3,669 in the Motorpoint Arena against Panthers with the opening goal after ten minutes, Stephen Desrocher being set up by Lucas Chiodo and Max Humitz.
Panthers hit back scoring on the power play after 29 minutes with Hugo Roy providing the final touch.
And the home side went ahead three minutes later when Carl Neill netted, firing the puck into the roof of the net, but Flyers, who are sixth in the ten-strong league, responded after 47 minutes, Anthon Eriksson scoring with assists from Kyle Osterberg and Chiodo.
They held Panthers as bay until 56min 58sec when Didrik Henbrant netted with a wrist shot and Westin Michaud scored unassisted from his own zone on an empty net after Flyers withdrew their netminder with 36sec left to complete the scoring.
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