Fife Flyers celebrated their first home win of the new season with a 5-1 victory over local rivals Dundee Stars. It was the first time since September 2023 that the Flyers had recorded a four-goal winning margin at home.
“I thought we had a pretty good start that continued from a great week of practice,” said Flyers captain Garet Hunt. “We had a good team-building week and I thought we had really good execution in practice which carried through into the game.”
The Flyers held a two-goal lead through 20 minutes in front of another excellent crowd at Fife Ice Arena. Ian Scheid slapped home a Josh Winquist pass with just over 13 minutes played to open the scoring, while Vlastimil Dostálek finished as Jarrett Fiske slid across his crease to bounce the puck over the line and double the lead a little more than two minutes later.
Dundee started the brighter in period two, and a 3-on-1 where Drydn Dow opted to shoot was their best chance of the early stages – Shane Owen getting in the way to keep it out.
Fife went three ahead as a powerplay ticked down. On the previous play, Fiske had knocked the net off, preventing the Stars from making a line change, and a tired penalty-kill unit saw the puck break to Johan Porsberger to shoot home at the far post for the only goal in the second.
Seven minutes and 27 seconds into the third, a deflection off a point shot saw the puck break kindly for Spencer Naas to find the net and get Dundee on the board. Inside the final five minutes, Owen pulled off an excellent double save while on the ground and without his stick to keep the Flyers two ahead.
“Dundee played hard. They had a push but we held onto it and had a good finish to get the win,” continued Hunt. “This whole week with the team-building, practices, adding a new player – it’s all coming together. We take one game at a time but will start focusing on tomorrow now.”
Porsberger found the empty net with 2:01 to go to seal the win, before Keaton Jameson rocketed home a shot to make it five for the hosts inside the final 90 seconds.
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