NEWS: Kielly happy to play the spoiler

Aspray Glasgow West sponsored Glasgow Clan netminder Jake Kielly says he enjoyed spoiling the post-Christmas party in Belfast on Thursday.

Clan’s #1 posted his second shutout of the season to deny Adam Keefe’s side as the team recorded their first win at the SSE Arena since March 2018.

And he insists he was just doing his job as the fans enjoyed what turned into a big road win ahead of this weekend’s meetings with Fife Flyers, the first of which taking place on Saturday at Braehead Arena (face off 7:00pm).

“It always feels good to go into another team’s barn and get a big win like that,” he said. “When you’re able to go in there and spoil their fun especially when they want to go in and put on a show in front of a sell-out crowd.

“It felt pretty good.  I’m not going to lie and especially when you consider we’ve had trouble closing out games against them in the past, I was just happy to do my job.

“I looked back at the game again and overall, as a team, we did a great job in the D zone.  Some of those offensive zone chances didn’t really come.

“We shut down well and I was able to be back there, playing a calm game and we just kind of eased into it.

“We all bought in last night and making sure we did the necessary things to win.  Over the last month or so, we’ve been struggling to pull off those wins so to go to a hostile barn and achieve that was huge.

“It will give us a lot of confidence going forward and gives us a great building block for us going into the second half of the season.”