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GAME REPORT: Home shutout and revenge over the Giants..

February 17, 2019

NEXT HOME GAME: Clan look to further cement 3rd place on SATURDAY 2nd of March as the Guildford Flames come to Glasgow (face-off at 7:00pm). Get your tickets NOW online HERE or by calling the ticket hotline on 0844 499 1700.

GLASGOW CLAN 5 BELFAST GIANTS 0

A shutout from Joel Rumpel and goals from five different scorers made it a great night as Glasgow Clan stung title challengers Belfast Giants with a 5-0 victory.

After two losses in the last three nights in the Northern Irish capital, Pete Russell’s men delivered the perfect finale to put a slight dent in the Giants’ league hopes.

Both teams went at it in the opening first period as this trilogy was heading to its conclusion, but a lack of goals were the only thing missing from that particular 20 minutes of action.

Scott Pitt had an early chance to give the home side an edge, but his one-on-one chance, set up by Vaclav Stupka was denied as Belfast goalie Tyler Beskorowany nicked it from him.

Rumpel had to be equally vigilant up the other end for the Clan, as he made two consecutive saves to block out Kyle Baun then Jonathan Boxill.

Vaclav Stupka scored the opener when he tucked away the rebound after Beskorowany spilled an initial effort by Scott Pitt.

Shortly after, a hit from behind on captain Zack Fitzgerald led to a scrap with Giants defenceman Kevin Raine, which led to a game penalty on the Clan man.

But the frustration of that was quickly alleviated with a shorthanded goal by Rasmus Bjerrum to double the lead.

An attempted blue line shot from Zach Sullivan minutes later got enough of a touch by Gerard Hanson to send it past Beskorowany.

Number four came a minute from the end of the second when Stupka’s inch-perfect pass found Pitt in the centre and the forward caressed it into the net.

Brendan Connolly scored the fifth to round off the night with a well struck shot to beat the Belfast goalie and rub salt into the wounds against his former team.

All that was needed was to preserve Rumpel’s net in the final minutes and the Clan did that brilliantly to complete a great team performance.

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