The flight home Sunday night was a slow and painful trip for the Ice Dogs as they narrowly defeated the Melbourne Ice in a shootout 5-4 on Saturday but were flattened 8-3 by the undefeated Adelaide Adrenaline on Sunday.

The Ice Dogs will need to go back to more than the drawing board to find their skates again,”I think this road trip really put things in perspective, we have to be mentally prepared every play to get the small things done in order to get the results we want at the end of the game” explains Import Jamie Galbraith who scored the first goal against Melbourne.

Canadian Import Jassi Sangha managed to get his Sydney side ahead scoring two breakaway goals. One of the goals Sangha slid the puck through the legs of three Melbourne defenders before dazzling the goaltender and scoring to stretch a comfortable 4-1 lead.

But before the pups could blink the Ice responded with two flashy goals to close the gap to 4-3. With 30 seconds to go Dogs goalie Jimmy Herbert robbed Melbourne’s import Lacasse with a glove save. Unfortunately the Dogs did not get off that easy when Melbourne tied the game with 0.9 seconds on the clock forcing a shootout.

Sangha was up first in the shootout and scored with ease. Herbert shut out all of Melbourne’s three shootout attempts to silence the crowd and give Sydney the win.
A slow start in the opening period against a high flying Adelaide unit left Sydney down 3-0. Again it would be Sangha to give the Ice Dogs some life to finish the first period down 3-1. The Ice Dogs showed glimpses of crawling back into the game but between spending too much time in the penalty box and defensive zone lapses the Adrenaline took full charge running away with the game.
Captain Anthony Wilson missed the road trip due to a groin injury but hopes to return at full strength for the Ice Dogs next home game against the defending champions the Newcastle Northstars.

Canadian Import Jassi Sangha managed to get his Sydney side ahead scoring two breakaway goals against Melbourne and the Dog's first against Adelaide.