Goaltender David Brown will be happy to be in the firing line again when Rapid Solicitors Hull Stingrays take on Sheffield Steelers in Saturday’s Elite League play-off semi-final.
The 30-year-old Canadian, an eighth-round draft pick by Pittsburgh Penguins in 2004, made 90 saves last weekend as Stingrays eliminated league runners-up Braehead Clan. 
Now they are preparing for a second appearance in the finals weekend in four years, with league champions and play-off holders Steelers their next challenge at the National Ice Centre.
Steelers have the two leading point-scorers in the league in Mathieu Roy (98) and Mike Forney (86) and they have 86 goals between them.
But Brown said: “It comes with the territory, I have been in this situation a few times in my career. Any time you have success you need your goaltender to give the team confidence. I know I have to be at the top of my game to give the team a chance. It is an exciting time for everyone. It will be a battle and we will need to stick to the game-plan. We are going there full of confidence and looking to carry that momentum. We will have shocked a lot of people, they will have been surprised to see what we did. Nothing will change, we will keep playing our game. We have never counted ourselves out, we have always battled through and we have never quit.”
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