Rapid Solicitors Hull Stingrays’ potent powerplay laid the foundations for a 6-3 victory over Fife Flyers in Kirkcaldy in the Elite League Gardiner Conference.
Jordan Mayer put Stingrays ahead on the powerplay at 4.46 with his 20th goal of the season and Jordan Knox made it 2-0 just 62 seconds into the middle session.
Three powerplay markers inside 249 seconds courtesy of player-coach Omar Pacha (31.04), Carl Lauzon (33.27) and Zach Hervato (35.13) then saw Stingrays surge into a five-goal lead. 
Flyers hit back to score three unanswered goals through Bobby Chaumont (40.21), Scott Fleming (48.51) and Matt Reber (52.23) which prompted a Stingrays time-out.
But Will Frederick wrapped up the points at 56.16 as Stingrays moved to within one point of Flyers in sixth place ahead of tomorrow’s return meeting at Hull Arena (6pm face-off).
Pacha said: “It was a good team performance and a great result.
“We got the job done in the first two periods. We knew they would come out hard in the third but we called a time-out and then for the last seven minutes we got back to basics.
“Our powerplay was good and it has done really well since we changed our units. Our special teams won us the game and we haven’t been able to say that too much this season.
“To have six different scorers was great and it was good to have production from every line which is what we want.”
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