REPORT: Sheffield Steelers 9 Glasgow Clan 3

Report by Sam Scouller; photos by Dean Woolley

Aspray Glasgow West sponsored Glasgow Clan were left scuppered after a harrowing defeat on the road at the hands of the Sheffield Steelers.

The Steelers got off to a perfect start as they opened the scoring 43 seconds in through a Scott Allen snipe from the right-side circle.

Allen doubled the hosts’ lead just a few minutes later as he bagged a second goal in the game with a backhanded shot past Antti Karjalainen.

Josh Nicholls and Daniel Ciampini both thought they’d scored shortly after Sheffield’s second goal but they were both thwarted by the crossbar.

Patrick Harper then bagged his first goal for the Steelers as he gave his side a three-goal lead which then saw Jake Kielly enter the game in place of Karjalainen just seven minutes in.

The tension from last night’s match into tonight boiled over on the ice as Sam Jones checked Charlie Combs into the boards which prompted Luke Lynch to drop the gloves with Sheffield’s #44.

The hosts then took a four-goal lead before the end of the period through a Mitchell Balmas goal on the powerplay.

In the second period, Marc-Olivier Vallerand expanded the Steelers’ lead with a powerplay goal 19 seconds in.

Vallerand then scored a sixth Sheffield goal as he sailed the puck over Kielly’s glove side later in the period.

Ryan Harrison came close to scoring for the hosts as he rebounded Gary Haden’s effort against a sprawling Greenfield but it trickled just wide of the net.

In the third period, Kielly stole the show with a superb catcher save on a rebound effort from Ciampini as he darted across the line to cut off the close-range shot.

Ciampini got on the scoresheet shortly after though as he nicked the puck in the Clan zone and sniped it into the top corner shorthanded.

Darien Craighead put the Clan on the boards on the following play though as his long-range effort sailed into the roof of the net on the powerplay.

Ciampini quickly reinstated Sheffield’s seven-goal lead though as he scored on a breakaway move by dangling past Kielly and rolling the puck over the line.

Robert Dowd then scored a ninth goal for the Steelers before Pelech and Lynch both scored late on in the game as the hosts rounded off the night with a 9-3 win.