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GAME PREVIEW: Clan go Giant hunting

March 29, 2022

Glasgow Clan vs Belfast Giants

Braehead Arena, Glasgow (Face off 7.30pm)

When you’re chasing a league title, you find every team wants to bring you down a peg or two and Belfast Giants will have found that to be the case for large parts of the season.

So they can expect the same kind of treatment when they visit Glasgow in the latest leg of their title push. However they’ll find a team keen to get points on the board themselves in the race for the top eight.

It’s getting to the point where every little fine margin can make a massive difference in the overall scheme of things and for these two, they’ll take what they can to get them where they need to be.

Fans of Sheffield, Guildford, Coventry and Dundee will also have half an eye on this one, knowing the outcome could impact on their own objectives.

It promises to be quite the night ahead and whoever has the better start can set the tone for what could be a pivotal game in the season and not just for the two teams involved.

FORM GUIDE

GLASGOW CLAN

Last Six Games:

Sun 27/03 PSEL vs Fife Flyers (a) L 2-3 (After Overtime)

Sat 26/03 PSEL vs Coventry Blaze (h) L 2-4

Thu 24/03 PSEL vs Guildford Flames (h) W 3-0

Sun 20/03 PSEL vs Nottingham Panthers (h) L 3-4 (After Overtime)

Sat 19/03 PSEL vs Guildford Flames (a) W 3-1

Fri 18/03 PSEL vs Cardiff Devils (a) L 2-4

BELFAST GIANTS

Last Six Games:

Sat 26/03 PSEL vs Nottingham Panthers (h) W 4-1

Fri 25/03 PSEL vs Nottingham Panthers (h) L 2-4

Sun 20/03 PSEL vs Manchester Storm (a) W 6-5 (After Overtime)

Sat 19/03 PSEL vs Dundee Stars (h) W 4-1

Wed 16/03 CC F vs Cardiff Devils (h) W 3-2 (After Overtime)

Sat 12/03 PSEL vs Sheffield Steelers (h) L 2-5

THE SEASON SO FAR

Wed 19/01 Glasgow Clan 3 Belfast Giants 1

Sun 26/12 Belfast Giants 5 Glasgow Clan 1

Sun 05/12 Glasgow Clan 0 Belfast Giants 6

Sun 07/11 Belfast Giants 3 Glasgow Clan 2

PLAYER TO WATCH

#64 David Goodwin

Belfast’s captain has encapsulated a lot of the great things they’ve done this season and with him wearing the treasured ‘C’, Adam Keefe knows his team are in safe hands on the ice.

With JJ Piccinich and Scott Conway leading the way in terms of points scoring, they haven’t been the only ones so when you point out Goodwin has 24 points in his last 11 games, you can understand why they’ve been so successful.

The 30-year-old has the flexibility of playing on the wing or through the centre and very much leads by example in a campaign where he’s already held a Challenge Cup aloft.

He’ll be dreaming of that league title in a matter of weeks and will want to drag his team there no matter what in the final few weeks.

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THE NUMBERS GAME

98

Combined number of points between Mathieu Roy and Colton Yellow Horn heading into this game, with both men locked on 49 points each.

200

Number of fans in attendance the last time both teams met at Braehead Arena, due to Covid restrictions placed on sporting events by the Scottish Government