TC Cars Solihull Barons – Nottingham Lions

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Recap

TC Cars Solihull Barons : 11
Nottingham Lions : 2

Sunday evening saw the TC Cars Solihull Barons register their first points of the 2018-19 Moralee with a convincing win over the Nottingham Lions. While tougher opposition will come as the season progresses, Solihull coach Dangie Brittle must have been pleased to see a confident performance, forward lines clicking and a goal for teenager Daniel Mulcahy in his Barons debut.

Matt Maurice on the charge (S Crampton)

The Barons fans did not have long to wait for the opening goal, when Matt Maurice playing his first game of the season for Solihull slotted in from short range within 20 seconds of the puck drop. The advantage was then doubled as Niklas Ottosson found Luke Brittle in the slot for the Barons second goal a little short of 7 minutes. A rout appeared on the cards as Luke Brittle from behind the red line found an eager Marcus Maynard taking up position in front of the net leaving the number 3 to tap in for Solihull’s third. By 12 minutes the visitors made the most of their own powerplay to draw a goal back – Paul Stanley, slotting the puck in the net for Nottingham. The remainder of the first period seemed to consist of a stream of soft penalties for Solihull and while these were defended well the home side’s offensive ambitions were curtailed somewhat. Once back to full strength however and Solihull were quick to once more ease out their edge, Luke Brittle getting his second and Solihull’s fourth with a couple of minutes of the first twenty left.

Josh Bruce on the attack (Harish Chavda, www.dingleimages.com)

The second period had more goals going the home side’s way. Within two minutes of the restart Niklas Ottosson was breaking up the right hand side of the ice before passing to Luke Brittle, who took his time before selecting the spot for his hat-trick. This would quickly be followed by a sweet tight angled goal from Matt Maurice before Solihull got their seventh after a cavalcade of training play drop passes and slick interplay which gave Dale White the final touch for the goal. Nottingham would pull a goal back in the 32nd minute as Cameron Pywell slipped the puck under Josh Nicholls for the Lions second. The period would end 8-2 to the Barons as Niklas Ottosson once more provided for Luke Brittle who lifted the puck over Nottingham goalie Ashley Smith’s blocker.

Steve Crowe has obviously been getting lessons in ‘the look’ from Marcus (S Crampton)

The scoring ways continued for the Barons into the third as Elliott Farrell spun the puck into the Nottingham net early in the final 20. With ten minutes to go Ed Eaton lofted the puck into the roof of the Lions goal to push Solihull into double figures. With three minutes left on the clock Barons debutante, 17 year old Daniel Mulcahy, after an evening of committed play, got number 11, converting a pass from Niklas Ottosson to wind up business for the evening.

 

Josh Nicholls kept goal for the Barons (Harish Chavda, www.dingleimages.com)

Next weekend sees the Solihull Barons make their first away trip of the season when they head to Ice Sheffield on Saturday to take on the Sutton Sting. Barons fans can next see the side at home on Saturday 22nd September when old rivals the Whitley Warriors come to Hobs Moat for what will be a physical tie. Face-off will be at the Saturday time of 5:15 pm.

A promising debut from Blaze NIHL two-way contractee Daniel Mulcahy (S Crampton)

 

BARONS MAN OF THE MATCH MATT MAURICE

Barons Man of the Match, Matt Maurice (S Crampton)

LIONS MAN OF THE MATCH THOMAS PARKINSON

Lions man of the Match Thomas Parkinson (S Crampton)

 

gamesheet


NEXT HOME GAME

Barons v Whitley Warriors
A Super Saturday game against our old rivals.
Face-off 5:15pm

Details

Date Time League Season
September 9, 2018 6:00 pm Moralee Division 2018/19

Results

Team1st2nd3rdT
Solihull Barons44311
Nottingham Lions1102

Solihull Barons

# Player Position G A PIM SA GA SV
3Marcus MaynardDefence1010000
4Dave RogersDefence004000
6Richard CroweDefence022000
10Dan HarrisonDefence000000
11Edward EatonOffence120000
13Steve CroweDefence010000
15Matt MauriceOffence230000
21Dale WhiteDefence1034000
22Elliot FarrellOffence110000
26Adam BrittleOffence000000
28Josh NichollsGoalie00429227
31Sam HewittGoalie000000
40Josh BruceOffence004000
71Daniel MulcahyOffence100000
77Luke BrittleOffence410000
89Filip SupaOffence000000
91Niklas OttossonOffence070000
96Stephen HeapeOffence004000
 Total 11176229227

Nottingham Lions

Position G A PIM SA GA SV
 2418591247

Venue

Planet Ice Solihull Ice Rink
Hobs Moat Rd, Solihull B92 8JN