Hull Stingrays vs. Dundee Stars - 9 November 2003-11-09 by Matt

Hull Stingrays got their second point of the season after a gruelling encounter at the Hull arena with the Dundee Stars.

The game exploded into life after just 2 minutes when Dino Bouba opened the scoring, Slava Koulikov then went on to score a unanswered hat-trick; the first after four minutes, while Hopkins was sitting out a two minute penalty for roughing. His second came on the eight minute mark with the third on fifteen.

Before the third goal, Scott Young decided to take the law into his own hands and gave Evgeny Alipov a few knocks to the head. These days, that's all Scott Young can do. The second period saw Dundee pull the score back from 3-1 to 3-4 with Paric Lochi scoring two goals in under a minute and then Gary Wishart after thirty minutes.

Andrei Nikolaev made the scores level five minutes into the third period. An off-the-puck incident saw Stephen Johnson receive a 4 minute penalty for roughing and Dino Bouba get a 4+10 for attempted butt-ending. Only minutes later, Scott Young was in the sin bin for slashing. When he heard that he had been given a ten minute penalty, he came out of the sin bin, pushed the lines person to the ground and punched the referee. The match then sizzled out with a depleted Dundee and a flu-stricken Hull team both looking very tired.

With nothing left in them, the game finished 4-4 after overtime. Rick Strachan said that he was 'happy with a point' and that 'the game had everything - goals, fighting and even ref-bashing. The fans love it!' Download the Game Video Clip. 1 minute, compressed 695Kb. download here

The result still leaves Hull at the bottom of the league after an 8-3 defeat in Edinburgh on Saturday night. The Stingrays next home game is on 22nd November against Edinburgh. Face-off 5:45pm.

Man of the match	Hull	Slava Koulikov
	Dundee	Paul Berrington

Stingrays Official Website
Dundee Website

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