Manchester Phoenix 6-7 Slough Jets (After Overtime)
Tony Hand’s Manchester Phoenix fought bravely on Sunday night at the Altrincham Ice Dome only to see all their hard work undone by Slough captain Blaz Emersic as he netted five times for the visitors including the winner in sudden-death overtime.
Phoenix, who were without leading scorer Ed Courtenay, have seen the Milton Keynes Lightning take over first place in the English Premier League, and are now in danger of slipping further down the table after this home defeat.
Hand commented afterwards, “Nobody should count us out of this title race just yet, there’s a lot of hockey to be played and we will bounce back when we’ve got our full line-up available.”
It was however, the home-side that started brightest with Adam Walker and Iain Bowie both scoring within two minutes before Emersic netted his first of the night in the 5th minute.
Tony Hand scored twice for Phoenix in the second period, whilst Emersic completed his hat-trick and Dan Davies added another for the Jets.
Davies added his second of the night for Slough early in the third and seemingly sealed the win for the Jets. But a late penalty gave Phoenix the chance they needed, Adam Walker bagged his second of the night on the powerplay and a minute later Robert Lachowicz scored to tie the score at 6-6.
Phoenix’s energy carried over into the extra period but they could not find a way through the Slough defence and Blaz Emersic smashed his fifth goal of the night past Steve Fone in emphatic style to seal the extra point.
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