Tonight’s game in Coventry was almost at the ‘must win’ stage. Coventry have had their way with the Giants this year and unless it was stopped quickly the gap would be too big to overcome. Well now that gap looks a little to big to overcome following a 7-1 thrashing by their biggest rivals for the title. That almost ‘must win game’ became a beating and it leaves the Giants in a big hole heading into the run in through January, February and March. Getting beaten 1-0 or 2-1 you can take, a close game that the team gave a good effort in, but 7-1 and going 0-for-9 on the powerplay just isn’t good enough.

The Coventry Blaze really are the bogey team for the Giants. The two clubs have played on 52 occasions now over the span of seven seasons and the Giants have won just fifteen times.

The two sides meet three more times this season and even if the Giants were to upset the form kart and grab all the points they would still be relying on the Blaze to drop points to various other teams and right now, the way things have been going this season it seems unlike the Blaze will drop many points at all and unlikely the Giants will drop few more.

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