Devils 4, Blaze 5 - Final
What happened to the team that played last night! To go from a 13-2 victory to a 5-4 loss is scary; how can one team display such different games, within 24 hours? Oh well, at least it wasn't that bad of a loss.
It didn't really look good from the beginning; at 3.15 in the first period, Coventry opened the scoring. It took a while but before the period was through, Cardiff managed to pull one back. No. 12, Craig Weller - who later went on to get the second star of the night - manged to shoot the puck past Brett Jaeger (who saved 47/51 shots and earned himself the first star), with help of Stuart MacRae and Scott Matzka.
So by the end of the first period, it was 1-1. But neither side was happy with that, Cardiff especially. To settle things out, Devils managed to go ahead for the first time, at 00.51 into the second period. Stuart MacRae shot one home, on the powerplay, with the only assist going to Jon Pelle. Cardiff were finally in the lead, but with it being so narrow, could they hold onto it?
Apparently not. Three minutes after Pelle put us ahead, the Blaze rallied with a goal of their own. Carlson succeeded in getting a second past Stevie Lyle, who didn't play in the 13-2 win last night but managed to save 27 out of 32 shots tonight, at 7.13, leveling the score. But they didn't stop there. Two minutes later, Owen, who scored the first of the Blaze goals, put another past Lyle, making it 4-3 Blaze.
With the second period ending at 4-3, the Devils' fans were getting worried. Not that long ago, we had been in this same situation; and, if I remember correctly, I did say that as exciting as it was, I never wanted to watch a game like it again. Apparently nobody listens to me... But anyway, back to the game. The Blaze obviously decided it would be fun to torment the Cardiff fans a little, by scoring a fifth goal - one which turned out to be the game winner - half way through the third, at 10.42, scored by Nell.
Proving why he deserved the second star, Craig Weller managed to pull it out of the bag one last time, at 18.44 with the help of Jon Pelle and Scott Matzka (for the second time of the game), but it just wasn't enough to push overtime.
The game ended 5-4 to the Blaze, but no worries, Cardiff at still at the top of the League, with three points separating us from Sheffield and Belfast. But even though they have a game in hand over us, Sheffield won't be able to catch us; we're the Devils and we're going to bring it back! Good luck against the Panthers on Wednesday, Devils! Let's Go Devils!
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