The Fire took the win streak to 7 games on Saturday following a 9-1 demolition of the Buffalo.
The Fire were still missing Sam Smith and Tim Burrows with holiday and injury respectively but still managed to rack up 9 goals on last season’s runners up.
The first period started well for Fire with Sam Bryant opening the scoring after just 24 seconds. The rest of the period was a big cagey with Basingstoke coming hard and Joe Myers called into action on quite a few occasions.
Just 2 mins into the 2nd period Alan Armour skated out of the corner and shot for his own rebound to put the puck past Calder to make the score 2-0. With the game at just 2-0 nil at the half way mark Fire got a Powerplay opportunity. Jordon Powell stepped up to finish an opportunity presented by a Joe Morris play. Ricky Deacon added the 4th quickly after 47 seconds. Tamas Elias scored arguably the goal of the night when Phil Manny made a pass towards Tamas, Tamas took the puck out of the air and set himself on a breakaway to beat GK Calder with a slick move. Ending the period 5 nil to the Fire.
Basingstoke ran into some disciplinary problems early in the 3rd and the Fire were able to get the 5 on 3 unit on the ice for a rare opportunity. Robert Sedlak found Ricky Deacon to score his 2nd goal of the evening. Just 19 seconds later Josh Haslam scored another powerplay goal, firing a well-placed shot into the top right hand side of the Basingstoke goal. Two further goals from Jordon Powell and Tamas Elias made the final score 9-1 to the Fire. That wasn’t the end of the action as with just 52 seconds remaining Conor Hutchison pursued Ricky Deacon to fight on one occasion too many, Ricky obliging and making Hutchinson wish he hadn’t asked the question, Hutchinson threw a bomb of a punch that Deacon ducked to avoid, landing his own punch sending Hutchinson to the ice for an easy win.
Powell 2+1
Elias 2+0
Deacon 2+0
Bryant 1+1
Manny 0+2
Armour 1+0
Haslam 1+0
Sedlak 0+1
Sadler 0+1
Wilkinson 0+1
Morris 0+1
MOM Tamas Elias
