On Saturday night……
Fife Flyers 4 Glasgow Clan 3 – Challenge Cup
The Flyers continued their strong form against the Glasgow Clan on home ice in the Challenge Cup having now won 4 of the last 5 encounters.
Flyers 2nd goal scored by Lucas Chiodo was their 1200th (inc. shootouts) on home ice all Elite Ice Hockey League competitions.
The Flyers gave 12 players their competitive debut – that’s the 3rd most on opening night in Flyers history (last season was the highest with 14 debutants)
Congratulations to three of the new boys who opened their scoring accounts – Phélix Martineau, Michael Cichy and Maxim Musorov who had the game winning goal.
The total number of players to have scored in their debut game for Flyers in EIHL competition now stands at 35 – or 18% of the 190 players to debut for the club in the EIHL
Three debut scorers is the highest since season 2022/23 when Janne Kivilahti, Shawn Cameron and Christian Hausinger were on target in a 6-5 win against the Glasgow Clan. The most scorers on their debut in the EHIL is season 2015/16 when in a 6-0 win against Coventry Blaze five different newcomers found the twine, Jeff Lee, Ryan Dingle, Patrick Cullen, Justin Fox and Michael Dorr.
Phélix Martineau also had the honour of scoring the Flyers opening competitive goals of the season, In the EIHL era the following players have all scored the Flyers first goal of the season (not always opening night) – Mike Hamilton, Derek Keller, Tim Hartung, Jordan Fulton, Jeff Lee, Stephen Gunn, Liam Heelis, Evan Bloodoff, Danick Gauthier, Greg Chase, Janne Kivilahti, Anthon Eriksson
The Flyers have now opened an EIHL campaign on 10 occasions at home – their record is Won 6 and Lost 4 with a goals scored total of F 31 A 22
In the three opening nights on the road their record is W 1 L 2 – Flyers were shutout in both losses – they have been shut out three times (all against Coventry) and have recorded two shut outs (Coventry and Edinburgh).
Flyers have now opened their season most often against Glasgow with 5 meetings and have a 3 and 2 record against their West Coast rivals who have outscored them 19-17
On Sunday night……
Fife Flyers 2 Belfast Giants 4 – Challenge Cup
The Flyers have now lost their last five Challenge Cup games at home against the Giants and the last ten overall. Their last win in the competition against Belfast was a 5-2 on 29th September 2019.
Congratulations to Shane Owen for his record breaking 309th appearance – most ever for a non homegrown player for Flyers in the EIHL era.
Lucas Chiodo got a second milestone goal on the weekend as the Flyers second goal was their 2200th including shootouts in all EIHL competitions.
Giants 59 shots against Flyers is the most the Flyers have conceded at home since November 2011 when the Giants were visitors and registered 65 shots – that’s the highest total of shots given up by Flyers on home ice and the highest tally for the Giants against Fife.
60 penalty minutes taken by the Flyers was the most since they were tagged with 83 minutes against the Sheffield Steelers on 7th December 2014. That was also the last time that the Flyers had two players chucked out with Kyle Horne getting a 2+10+Game for Abuse of Official and Matt Nickerson a Match penalty for fighting. Only three another three games have had a higher penalty tally 2013/14 v Cardiff (109) 2012/13 v Dundee (91) 2011/12 v Edinburgh (177)
IN PICTURES
Pic Credits – Jillian McFarlane and Derek Young
FLYERS BY NUMBERS
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