Defenceman Tomas Manco finishing his check on the play
After losing 8-3 to the first placed Canberra Knights on Saturday night in Canberra, the Dogs needed to bounce back against Newcastle on the Sunday. Rallying from 3-1 down the BANQ Ice Dogs eventually scored 5 unanswered goals over the course of the game to take a 6-3 lead until the Northstars took advantage of a few powerplays to stage a late comeback and win in a shootout.
Newcastle Northstars Defenceman Chris Belanger worked his lethal shot on Newcastle’s powerplay to help establish the 2-0 lead for the home team.
Linemates Chris Sekura and Scottie Herbert were on fire. Scottie Herbert scored the first goal for the Dogs set up by Sekura. At 3-1 down it was then Sekura who put in a rebound on the rush from Scott Stephenson’s slapshot. In a tit for tat contest Herbert levelled the scores in the second period with a nifty backhand shot top shelf on Northstars Matt Ezzy.
At the start of the third the BANQ Ice Dogs came out firing scoring three goals in three minutes, two of the goals coming from Chris Sekura with his third goal a great top corner shot.
Sekura's line comes back to the bench to celebrate his first career AIHL Hat-trick
The Dogs played even harder but were given some unfortunate penalties where the Northstars scored their fourth and fifth goal. With the tables turned the Northstars leveled the score with approximately three minutes left in the game and it was onto a shootout. Andrew DeCristoforo scored on the first shot but the Northstars buried two of their own to give them their thirs shootout win in as many games.
“Tonight was a better indication of how we can play, however we need to focus on playing like that every single shift. We aren’t panicking as there is still a long season ahead and we are looking forward to getting the ball rolling at our hompe opener this Saturday against the Bears” says Ice Dogs forward Scott Stephenson.
The Battle of Sydney should be staged to be one thriller of a game with both the Bears and the Dogs determined to move up the standings.
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May 10th, 2010 at 7:01 am
yes u did play a better game than canberras game the atmosphere was great but u need to work on ur penalty time that what kills u boys u work really hard for what a penalty then lose in the end hopefully u boys come through u have our support that being said dont worry bout the past work on the future
May 10th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Great game the game was ours for the taking. Little dissapointing in the final result but much better performance than Canberra. Few cheap penaltys the ref gave eg putting Derick in the box for accidently clipping the keeper and willow for getting the puck and northstar bloke fell over that was the softest penalty ever the ref should be reffing a game of chess.
No:14 dunwoodie machine sorting the kids from the men 2 from 2 on fire
well in sekura nice hat trick good to get to points on the board
did well Jimmy you were under the pump a bit.
Derick you took the piss out of no:14 when he tryed to check you and you scored the goal.
All up enjoyable game to watch good setup in Newcastle
May 10th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
bad luck guys on the defeats,still a long road ahead to go,saw both games and bloody enjoyed both of them,great little road trip we had and thought we might have to go out swingin in canberra,very hostile crowd(loved it)we gave as good as we got
far better game in newcastle and thought we had them but alas not our night,cannot think of anyone who didnt give 110%,great to watch from where we were
dave dunwoodie IS the enforcer i reckon and im sure he switched to guns cause he was too close for missles….rock on
cant wait for this weekend in our home games
p.s alison, u were out of control in canberra revving up the ferals behind the nets
May 10th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
agree johnno up againts the glass with a megaphone while dunwoodie was ENFORCING on the other side of the glass was a highlight of the night i recond.
alison was the trouble maker shes out of control lol
May 14th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
excuse me guys u were all the trouble makers nearly getting into a fight in canberra.but a better game on sunday then saturday they played like a team good luck on our first home game.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
no alison we got the situation under control your the one who started the sledging.
you wont see game like the first home game unlees you watch the replay on 10HD saturday tonight (i wish)