GD73 Steelers 7:4 Panthers / Apr 16 / PO

[Yotes]

Elite League Play Offs / Third Place Game / 16 April 2023, 1.00pm

Twitter: PanthersIHC / Match Report: OS / Game Sheet: EIHL

Scoring Summary
First Period
7:58 Niklas NEVALAINEN	1-0
	1-1	14:56 Matthew MYERS
17:19 Scott ALLEN SHG	2-1
	2-2	17:34 Matthew MYERS PPG
19:12 Robert DOWD	3-2
Second Period
29:42 Brett NEUMANN	4-2
	4-3	34:26 Stephen ANDERSON
Third Period
	4-4	41:36 Jack HOPKINS
44:13 Calle ACKERED	5-4
52:30 Niklas NEVALAINEN	6-4
54:41 Jonathan PHILLIPS	7-4

[The Flying Shirt]

[Yotes]

Indeed. And much like with Clarkey a few years ago, a rather sad way for Phillips to end his domestic career.

Fitting finish for Connolly mind you.

[spik]

You’d have to ask why the Cup doesn’t thus have a similar 3rd place play off.
But we all know it’s to pad out the second days itinerary.

[Deleted]

I'm glad this ain't on TV! Is it the first time steelers and panthers have played in the losers final ?

[Yotes]

Don't think Sheffield have ever been in it before, we're 100% in finishing 3rd

16/17 Dundee 8 Belfast 15
17/18 Nottingham 8 Fife 2
18/19 Nottingham 9 Guildford 5
19/20 Cancelled
20/21 Cancelled
21/22 Guildford 7 Dundee 5
22/23 Sheffield v Nottingham

I can't remember when it started, that's the earliest result I can find.

[spik]

Apr 15, 2023 22:06:00 GMT Yotes said:

Don't think Sheffield have ever been in it before, we're 100% in finishing 3rd

16/17 Dundee 8 Belfast 15
17/18 Nottingham 8 Fife 2
18/19 Nottingham 9 Guildford 5
19/20 Cancelled
20/21 Cancelled
21/22 Guildford 7 Dundee 5
22/23 Sheffield v Nottingham

I can't remember when it started, that's the earliest result I can find.

Nothing written in Annuals before this time.

[hykehampanther]

Apr 15, 2023 22:06:00 GMT Yotes said:

Don't think Sheffield have ever been in it before, we're 100% in finishing 3rd

16/17 Dundee 8 Belfast 15
17/18 Nottingham 8 Fife 2
18/19 Nottingham 9 Guildford 5
19/20 Cancelled
20/21 Cancelled
21/22 Guildford 7 Dundee 5
22/23 Sheffield v Nottingham

I can't remember when it started, that's the earliest result I can find.

I've got Coventry 11-5 Cardiff in 2013. I remember Shea Guthrie skating rings around everyone looking like he was the only one who wasn't on the pop the night before.

[hykehampanther]

It was Hull Vs Belfast in 2015 too. Don't remember the score but I do remember Westgarth getting sarcastically cheered when he got a shift having been benched in the semi.

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So panthers playing Bloor in nets.... Steelers playing a import Nettie... No prizes for guessing who is taking it serious

[Yotes]

Why not play Dubeau?

[DMS]

The PG will have arrived at the arena for this game long before the players even did.

[messier1851]

I’d have to try and look it up but didn’t Cardiff’s netminder play as an out skater in this match one year, from memory it might have been Jason Cugnet.

[Bagheera]

Best attended 3s v 4s game ive ever seen. Fans from both teams taking it for more serious than the players

[spik]

Says Z.McKenzie assisted on Myers first goal on my app.
Are we playing anyone today?
Mind you it also said we were winning 3-2

[Bagheera]

Apr 16, 2023 12:37:13 GMT spik said:

Says Z.McKenzie assisted on Myers first goal on my app.
Are we playing anyone today?
Mind you it also said we were winning 3-2

That is correct. Borrowed Zaine McKenzie. Plays for MK. Apparently trains with Panthers sometimes. 19 year old.

[spik]

Apr 16, 2023 12:44:42 GMT Bagheera said:

Apr 16, 2023 12:37:13 GMT spik said:

Says Z.McKenzie assisted on Myers first goal on my app.
Are we playing anyone today?
Mind you it also said we were winning 3-2

That is correct. Borrowed Zaine McKenzie. Plays for MK. Apparently trains with Panthers sometimes. 19 year old.

My thinking was that all players had to be on the books by deadline. Never had that name on my list here at home.
It’s all crazy here. By the GRS Sheffield have nicked one of our SOG too. Now both are up, must be that ‘live’ GRS...hmm

[Yotes]

The predictable Jonathan Phillips goal, assist Connolly, looks like our 100% record is going.

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Apr 16, 2023 14:01:43 GMT Yotes said:

The predictable Jonathan Phillips goal, assist Connolly, looks like our 100% record is going.

What record is that

[Yotes]

We'd always won this game when we'd had the misfortune of being in it (I think), before today.

[Deleted]

Dam, what trophy did we miss out on?

[Yotes]

[Deleted]

Apr 16, 2023 14:21:18 GMT Yotes said:

😂😂

[ashfieldpanther]

Apr 16, 2023 14:01:43 GMT Yotes said:

The predictable Jonathan Phillips goal, assist Connolly, looks like our 100% record is going.

Both will change their minds about retiring. Steelers will do anything to get a goal.

[spik]

Apr 15, 2023 22:06:00 GMT Yotes said:

Don't think Sheffield have ever been in it before, we're 100% in finishing 3rd

16/17 Dundee 8 Belfast 15
17/18 Nottingham 8 Fife 2
18/19 Nottingham 9 Guildford 5
19/20 Cancelled
20/21 Cancelled
21/22 Guildford 7 Dundee 5
22/23 Sheffield v Nottingham

I can't remember when it started, that's the earliest result I can find.

I've cracked it. For yotes and hykehampanther, the whole list.

2013 Coventry beat Cardiff 11-5
2014 Braehead beat Fife 7-6 ot
2015 Belfast beat Hull 8-6
2016 Cardiff beat Fife 6-0
2017 Belfast beat Dundee 15-8
2018 Nottingham beat Fife 8-2
2019 Nottingham beat Guildford 9-5
2020 -
2021 -
2022 Guildford beat Dundee 7-5
2023 Sheffield beat Nottingham 7-4


From the Ice Hockey Annual 14-15 of the 2014 match

'The most bizarre game of the weekend was the third place play off which the players refused to take seriously. As the fans paid good money to watch, this game needs a serious re-think. Would a junior match be out of the question?

We thought the junior game was one sided in the favour of England v Scotland....

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Whilst talking of this I am after the GRS/stats from the 2018 and 2019 3rd/4th game of the 2017-18 + 2018-19 Finals weekends. If anyone can help.