Double delight for Devils in Belfast

Photo: William Cherry

Cardiff Devils completed a four-point weekend against Belfast Giants with a 4-3 win at the SSE Arena in Part II of their weekend double header. The two games combined totalled 14,600 spectators.

The Giants started period one better than they had the night before, and were up inside ten minutes. With Jamie Arniel sitting a double-minor for a High-Stick, Daniel Tedesco's shot was deflected past Ben Bowns by Oliver Cooper to open the scoring at 9:29. On the same penalty, an excellent Trevor Cox wrist shot beat Jackson Whistle to tie the game shorthanded under two minutes later.

Belfast killed off a Henrik Eriksson penalty for 1:58 of period two after it carried over from the first, but found themselves behind to Cole Sanford firing home the rebound from a Joey Martin shot 3:08 into the middle period.

The game changed on a major penalty in period two. Ryan Barrow was ejected for a Boarding call that put the Giants onto a five-minute advantage that they didn't miss. Daniel Tedesco finished a nice passing play to make it two each at 31:36, and shortly before the end of the penalty Ara Nazarian put the Giants back into the lead. 

Cole Ully levelled for the Devils 3:13 into period three, before Sanford scored his second of the night, and third of the weekend, to put the Devils back itno the lead with with 10:28 to play.

Whistle was pulled with 2:21 to go but to no avail, and the Devils head on to take maximum points from the weekend.