Fife Flyers 3 Edinburgh Capitals 2

It’s been way too long but at last the Fife v Edinburgh derby’s are back and at the end of this Challenge Cup encounter it was the Fifers who were celebrating as they picked up their first win of the season after a ‘difficult’ start by edging it by the odd goal in five and coming from behind to do so.

The game took some time to settle but when it did it was Capitals who were first to score with Rene Jarolin firing home at 13.33. The teams and the crowd were fired up as Jozef Sladok of Capitals and Matt Siddall of Flyers were binned for fighting at 15.47 and 12 seconds later Flyers were level as Mike Hamilton hit the net on a shorthanded play.

That ended the first period scoring and indeed neither side could add to their tally in the second period despite Capitals enjoying a 20 to 4 shot advantage and Flyers having Danny Stewart ejected on a 5 + game for spearing in the 38th minute.

Into the third and surely the visitors thought the game had turned their way at last when Peter Holecko shot them 2-1 ahead at 48.15 on the powerplay but this was far from the case as the visitors then got into penalty trouble and Flyers took absolute advantage by scoring twice on the powerplay through Matt Cohen at 53.03 and Siddall at 54.05 to nick it in the end from a stunned Capitals side.

Period Scores: 1-1, 0-0, 2-1
Penalty Mins: Fif 46 – Edi 25
Powerplay: Fif 2/9 – Edi 1/9
Shots On: Garrett Zemlak 39 – Nathan Craze 16

Referee: Andy Carson