Normally when you win 3-0 all the attention is around the goalie for picking up the shutout and while nothing will be taken away from Murphy for another fine performance between the pipes, all the talk will centre around new boy Jeff Szwez and his two goal debut performance. He only met up with his new team-mates earlier in the week but seems to have settled immediately as seen by tonights showing. Not only did the result come against the Panthers, but against the league leading Panthers and was enough to jump the Giants to the top of the Elite League table. Thank you Jeff Szwez.

After such a rough start to the season which had some fans asking questions about the ability of the team recruited, things have been starting to come together for the Giants, they have now won five games on the bounce, including one in the challenge cup, and have silenced a lot of the doubters.

One of the players under serious scrutiny before a puck was even dropped, and perhaps unfairly, was Sean McMorrow, but the big man, who has dropped the gloves in nearly every game for the last month, went at it again tonight early, winning yet again and setting the tone for the Giants to go on and win. Most of his fights have came early in games and you would have thought by now opposition players would avoid him at all costs as he keeps winning and giving his team a boost, but whatever he says works and it gets the crowd going.

From then on the hockey stuff takes over, or in tonight’s case, Jeff Szwez takes over and sends us top with a shutout win over the team likely to be our biggest rival for the championship.

Below is a YouTube clip of McMorrow’s scrap with Bergin, no goal highlights as of yet.

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