Coventry Blaze maintained their record as the only team unbeaten in League action this season with a six-goal, shutout win over Glasgow Clan.
The game was scoreless for well over 30 minutes at a sold-out Braehead Arena, but was paused midway through the second period due to a medical emergency in the crowd.
After things resumed, the Blaze were quicker out of the blocks and took the lead. While Rob Lachowicz sat for roughing, Kim Tallberg got onto a rebound from his initial shot to put the Blaze ahead at 31:46. Grayson Constable turned the puck over off Matt Stief on the Blaze blue line and raced away to then feed Michael Regush for a bottle-popping finish to put the visitors two ahead with 71 seconds left in the middle frame.
Regush then turned provider for a Chase Gresock one-timer in the slot to make it 3-0 just 23 seconds into the third as the game quickly slipped away from the Clan, while Alexander Kuqali snuck one through Lucas Brine’s five-hole at 43:44 to make it 4-0 shorthanded.
Brine got the better of Alessio Luciani to deny the Blaze forward scoring a penalty shot on the 44-minute mark, but the visitors did add a fifth just 1:2 later as Zach Heintz finished off a neat tic-tac-toe play on the powerplay. After some late rough stuff which saw Mitchell Heard ejected and Deven Sideroff called on an Instigator penalty, Luciani beat Brine shorthanded to round off a comfortable win for the Blaze.
Mat Robson posted a 26-shot shutout, his first in the EIHL.
Photo: Al Goold