Slough Jets 4-5 Guildford Flames (Flames lead 2 game aggregate semi
final 5-4)
Tuesday 23rd January 2007
English Premier Cup Semi Final First Leg
Slough Ice Arena, Montem Lane, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2QG, England



The Flames marathon section of the fixtures list continued on Tuesday
evening as they travelled to Slough for the first leg of the aggregate
goal Premier Cup semi final against a Jets club that, to this point in
the season, the Flames had yet to beat in 3 previous league attempts.
With leg 2 on Spectrum ice just 24 hours later, the Surrey side
entered Tuesday hoping for a scoreline they could work with the
following evening, and that is exactly what they got with a 5-4 win
and a 1 goal lead with leg 2 still to play.   The Flames opened a 2-0
lead with a pair of quick strikes by Vaclav Zavoral in the 13th and
15th minutes.  As time ticked down on the opening frame Stuart Potts
added another to create a 3 goal cushion as the clubs went to the
first break.  Things took a turn for the better for the Jets as Gary
Wishart pulled the score back to 3-1 less than a minute into the
second.  Just past the midway point of the game, former Flame Tony
Redmond brought the Jets to within a goal when he beat Joe Watkins in
the Flames net, but that was all the scoring in the session and the
Flames carried the slimmest of leads into the final 20 minutes of
play.  The Jets started the 3rd the way they started the 2nd, and a
shorthanded Steve Moria goal at 40:34 knotted the score at 3 each.  At
49:21 Nicky Chinn gave Slough their first lead of the night making it
4-3, but Robert Sobala replied for the Flames just over 30 seconds
later and the score was tied once again.  The Flames were the
beneficiaries of a powerplay opportunity late in the game, and Rick
Plant made it count with a goal at 57:04, to give the Flames the win
on the night, and a 5-4 lead in the aggregate series ahead of leg 2 at
Spectrum.

SCORING

SLOUGH; 23-Jan-2007 08:30 PM; 2006/2007 Premier Cup Semi Final Leg 1

SLOUGH JETS 4 vs GUILDFORD FLAMES 5

First Period

1. GUILDFORD FLAMES, Vaclav Zavoral (Milos Melicherik / Neil Liddiard)
12:16
2. GUILDFORD FLAMES, Vaclav Zavoral (Unassisted) 14:43
3. GUILDFORD FLAMES, Stuart Potts (Milos Melicherik / Paul Dixon)
19:25

Penalties - Gary Wishart - SLOUGH JETS (Interference-Minor) 00:05,
Milos Melicherik - GUILDFORD FLAMES
(Interference-Minor) 00:36, Joel Poirier - SLOUGH JETS (Holding-Minor)
09:44, Steve Moria - SLOUGH JETS (Hooking-Minor) 15:08, Milos
Melicherik - GUILDFORD FLAMES (Slashing-Minor) 16:48

Second Period

4. SLOUGH JETS, Gary Wishart (Paddy Ward / Steve Moria) 00:38
5. SLOUGH JETS, Tony Redmond (Nicky Chinn / Joel Poirier) 12:41 (pp)

Penalties - Rick Skene - GUILDFORD FLAMES (Roughing-Minor) 01:23,
Tyrone Miller - SLOUGH JETS (Interference-Minor) 04:14, Steve Moria -
SLOUGH JETS (Elbowing-Minor) 07:42, Joe Watkins - GUILDFORD FLAMES
(Interference-Minor) 11:25, Ollie Bronnimann - GUILDFORD FLAMES
(Hooking-Minor) 18:23, Zoran Kozic - SLOUGH JETS (Tripping-Minor)
19:14, Ollie Bronnimann - GUILDFORD FLAMES (Misconduct-Misconduct)
19:03

Third Period

6. SLOUGH JETS, Steve Moria (Joel Poirier / Lee Cowmeadow) 00:34 (sh)
7. SLOUGH JETS, Nicky Chinn (Blaz Emersic / Zoran Kozic) 09:21
8. GUILDFORD FLAMES, Robert Sobala (Ollie Bronnimann / Milos
Melicherik) 09:56
9. GUILDFORD FLAMES, Rick Plant (Robert Sobala / Milos Melicherik)
17:04 (pp)(gw)

Penalties - Joel Poirier - SLOUGH JETS (Charging-Minor) 05:14, Neil
Liddiard - GUILDFORD FLAMES (Holding-Minor) 13:41, Nicky Chinn -
SLOUGH JETS (Tripping-Minor) 16:41

Shots On Goal

SLOUGH JETS 19-16-11--46
GUILDFORD FLAMES  12-13-8--33

Goal - SLOUGH JETS: Stephan Wall; GUILDFORD FLAMES: Joe Watkins

Power plays - SLOUGH JETS: 1-for-6; GUILDFORD FLAMES: 1-for-8

Lineups

SLOUGH JETS: Stephan Wall; Dean Skinns; Carl Thompson; Joel Poirier;
Tyrone Miller; Lee Cowmeadow; Blaz Emersic; Warren Rost; Terry Miles;
Euan Forsyth; Michael Bowman; Steve Moria; Tony Redmond; Gary Wishart;
Tom Smith; Nicky Chinn; Paddy Ward; Daniel Mackriel; Zoran Kozic

GUILDFORD FLAMES: Joe Watkins; Tom Annetts; Neil Liddiard; Marian
Smerciak; David Savage; Ben Johnson; Rob Lamey; Stuart Potts; Andrew
Hemmings; Rick Plant; Milos Melicherik; Paul Dixon; Vaclav Zavoral;
Robert Sobala; Chris Wiggins; Rick Skene; Russ Plant; Ollie Bronnimann

BOX SCORE

Period Scoring  1st  2nd  3rd  OT  Final
Guildford  3 0 2  5
Slough 0 2 2  4

Shots On Goal 1st  2nd  3rd  OT  Final
Watkins 12 13 8  33
Skinns 19 16 11  46

Penalty Minutes  1st 2nd  3rd  OT  Final
Guildford  4 16 2  22
Slough 6 6 4  16


Referee - Dave Cloutman

Linesmen - Luke Hames; Alex Von Hasselburg

Attendance - 520

Man Of Match - Vaclav Zavoral (Flames); Michale Bowman (Jets)