Hull Stingrays vs Nottingham Panthers - 26 September 2004 by Matt and Liam

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Hull Stingrays Failed to follow up their victory over Sheffield and their draw with Guildford as they fell to a 6-2 home defeat to Nottingham Panthers today. Nottingham came out with all guns blazing and on eleven minutes managed to get the breakthrough goal with Krulis hitting home. Only one minute later, Craighead should have been called for two blatant elbows on Kevin Phillips but Staniforth let it go and Ivan skated up the ice to double The Panthers' lead. Early in the second period with Pavel Gomenyuk sitting out a two minute penalty for tripping and Cadotte gets Nottingham's third of the night after some very patient build up play but once again Staniforth had been letting these penalties go unpunished all night.

Dave Pyatt opened up Stingrays account in the 31st minute with his first goal of the season. Two minutes later Ivan got his second of the night when the puck fell on his stick from a goal mouth scramble.

Once the buzzer had gone, Scott Wray took exception to a Panthers player but just as in Nottingham in, also came Afroman Craighead who should have been thrown out for third man in but got away with a 2+2 roughing and a 10 minute misconduct penalty. Wray gained himself 2 minutes in the sin bin for roughing.

Slava Koulikov gave Hull hope when he hit through Cruickhank's legs but it was short-lived as Ahlroos killed off the Stingrays hopes with 2 goals.

The first was from a rebound when Kudrna stopped Cadotte's shot but Ahlroos finished it off. His second goal came five minutes later with Ivan sitting out a holding-the-stick penalty for The Panthers. Dru Burgess lost the puck to Krulis who sent Ahlroos free and beat Kudrna on a one on one.

Stingrays fans will be feeling a little down as tonight's team was a totally different one to the team that turned up the week before. They didn't have that edge and hunger that they have shown in most games so far this season. Hopefully it will be back for next weeks game against Peterborough. Man of the match Nottingham Cruickshank Hull Dave Pyatt

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