Guildford Flames bounced back from a six goal defeat on Friday night to win by seven on Sunday evening at the Spectrum against Dundee Stars.
“We just wanted to bounce back after the game in Cardiff on Friday night,” explained Flames captain Matt Alvaro. “I thought we played a full 60 minutes, we were a lot more connected, our fore-check was really good. Tyler Busch’s line really got us going and everybody hopped on their back.”
Jake Coughler opened the scoring at 11 minutes, finishing a Nick Seitz feed in close. Guildford doubled their advantage late in the period on the powerplay when Jamal Watson’s cross-ice pass found Cole Ully for a one-timer with Emil Kruse already committed.
The Flames needed less than a minute of the second period to add a third. Josh Waller played a give-and-go with Nixon before beating Kruse on the backhand. Ully struck again at the halfway mark, converting off a clean offensive-zone faceoff win.
Dundee captain Drydn Dow did not hide his frustration at how the night unfolded. “Not good enough, quite embarrassing actually,” he admitted. “From start to finish it wasn’t good enough, we know we’re a lot better than that, it just wasn’t good enough at all.”
Guildford continued to pull away. Nixon made it 5-0 by burying a rebound from Waller’s initial effort, prompting Dundee to replace Kruse with Jarrett Fisk. The Flames kept pressing, and Jack Jacome fired bar-down from the blue line before striking again moments later to make it 7–0 through two periods.
Dow summed up where the Stars find themselves: “We’re in a bit of a struggle at the moment, we just need to get back to playing the game we were at the start of the season, playing a physical and tough game.”
Jake Coughler then turned provider early in the third, threading an excellent pass to the far post for Seitz to score Guildford’s eighth. Keanu Yamamoto spoiled Justin Fazio’s bid for a shutout late on, changing the score but not the outcome as the Flames cruised to victory.
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