Elite League 2004/05 | Thursday 3 February 2005 by Richard Blayney
George Awada and Fredrik Nasval scored their 21st goals of the season and Awada picked up the man of the match award on his way to earning the Giants a 2-2 road tie against the Cardiff Devils.
The Devils came out flying and went 2-0 up early on but a Giants fight back made it 2-1 by the end of the first and then later in the second Fredrik Nasval tied the score. The game went into overtime but it ended with the teams sharing the points.
The Giants now sit 3 points behind the Blaze with one game in hand and still all to play for.
Cardiff Devils 2-2 Belfast Giants
Devils: Becker (pp) 4:34, Tait 10:51.
Giants: Awada 13:38, Nasval (pp) 45:17.
Lines:
Huppe – Hand – Awada
Johnson – C.Bowen – Nasval
Kelly – Levers – Morrison
Kelman – Gavalier
Angelstad – J.Bowen
Jamieson – Walton
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Elite League 2004/05 | Sunday 28 November 2004 by Richard Blayney
The Giants put on a superb display to take two points from the league leading Cardiff Devils in a thrilling game in Wales. The Giants who where outplayed for most of the game defended strongly and had some superb goal-tending from super-star Martin Klempa who turned aside 37 of 38 Cardiff shots.
It was the Giants who took the lead in a game that looked to be heading for a 0-0 tie after two periods of no scoring, when player-coach Tony Hand stepped up and scored his 8th goal of the season to make it 1-0 with a goal that looked to have sealed the points for the Giants.
But just as fans where thinking their team had grabbed the points and Klempa had got a magnificent shut-out they where stunned into silence when ex-Giant star Dave Matsos scored with only 22 seconds remaining.
With a guaranteed point on the board for both teams the Giants really needed to grab that extra point and keep in contention with the league leaders and that goal came only 24 seconds into the over-time period when Fredrik Nasval popped up to score his 14th goal in 21 games and win it for the Giants.
Cardiff Devils 1-2 Belfast Giants
Devils: Matsos 59:38.
Giants: Hand 52:22, Nasval 60:24.
Lines:
Huppe – Hand – Nasval
Kelly – C.Bowen – Awada
Morrison – Walton – Levers
J.Bowen – Johnson
Angelstad – Gavalier
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