WEEK 17 of the 2024/25 Elite Ice Hockey League season and the first part of the Flyers festive fixture schedule as they entertain the Dundee Stars on Boxing Day before travelling to meet the Stars in Dundee at the weekend.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 26th FIFE FLYERS v DUNDEE STARS @ FIFE ICE ARENA – FACE OFF 6.30pm
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The teams last met in mid-November in Dundee. Since that game on their travels the Stars next visited the Manchester Storm where they left empty handed following a 6-3 defeat. A week later however and they secured arguably their best result of the season when they visited Sheffield and defeated the Steelers 4-2 for their first win at the Utilita Arena in two years. To start December they visited the Nottingham Panthers and lost out narrowly 3-2 before another odd goal defeat the following weekend in Glasgow as the Clan won 4-3. A midweek trip to play the Giants in Belfast ended with a heavy 7-1 reversal and three days later in the Midlands the Coventry Blaze ran up the same scoreline. The weekend before Christmas the Stars returned to Glasgow and once again fell short in a 3-2 loss that stretched their winless run to 8 consecutive games, the second longest winless streak amongst all teams this season. The Stars have made two additions to their roster since their last meeting with the Flyers. Forward Alex Robert who started the season with the Manchester Storm joined at the end of November and in mid-December Spencer Naas who was their second top scorer in league play last season made his way back to Tayside after starting the season in Germany with Freiburg in DEL 2.
Last League Visit from Stars
Overall Home League Record Against Stars
P 42 W 21 L 21 F 136 A 123
Number Crunching
The Stars have won four of their last five games at Fife Ice Arena,
The Flyers have lost their last three meetings with the Stars who have a 4 and 1 record in the meeting of the teams so far this season.
In that time the Flyers have been outscored 10-23.
Phelix Martineau leads the Flyers in goals against the Stars this season with 3 and Brett Gravelle is the Stars leading scorer with 4 goals.
The Stars have lost their last 5 games on the road and the Flyers will be looking to snap a three game losing streak at Fife Ice Arena.
This will be the 120th meeting all time in the EIHL between the teams – unsurprisingly the team that the Flyers have met in the EIHL era.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 28th DUNDEE STARS v FIFE FLYERS @ DUNDEE ICE ARENA – FACE OFF 7.00pm
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On home ice since their last meeting with the Flyers the Stars then met the Guildford Flames the following week with the visitors winning 3-1. The Coventry Blaze then eked out a shootout win after the teams ended tied at three a piece. Belfast were next on Tayside and the Stars again surrendered the points with the Giants winning 5-2. Into December and the Stars almost repeated their road win against the Steelers with the Yorkshire side eventually coming out on top by the odd goal in seven. The Cardiff Devils then took both points back to Wales with a 5-2 win before the Glasgow Clan visited for the final game before Christmas and the Stars broke their five game home skid in a topsy turvy game with an 8-5 win which also ended their winless drought at eight games.
Last League Visit to Stars
Overall League Away Record Against Stars
P 42 W 19 L 23 F 143 A 161
Number Crunching
The Stars have won their last three matches on home ice against the Flyers.
The Flyers have only one win on their last six visits to Dundee Ice Arena.
The Stars with an average of 2.83 goals per game across all competitions are third lowest scorers, the Flyers have the lowest average with 2.25 goals per game
The Stars and Flyers have given up most goal across all competitions with Stars average per game 3.94 and Flyers 4.91
The Stars are third in scoring from the blueline with 15 goals in all competitions this season.
