By Kris Smith
The Stars would find a way to get in front after only four minutes as Spencer Naas turned Brendan Harms’ pass up past Shane Owen to open the scoring but despite Dundee looking like doubling their lead quickly, the Flyers would capitalise on a mistake to draw level.
With a face-off in the Fife end, the home team won possession and the puck came back to defenseman, Xavier Pouliot who would fail to pick up possession and that allowed Kieran Craig to race in behind all alone, dispatching the puck past Jarret Fiske at his right post, on seven minutes.
Marc LeFebvre’s men then went onto the penalty kill as blueliner, Ben O’Connor was called for a slashing foul and the Flyers would cash in on the man advantage to take a 2-1 lead as Patrick Kyte’s long-range effort founds its way into the back of the net.
The Stars would go close to an equaliser as Naas, Alex Robert and Keanu Yamamoto all had chances in the first period but at the other end, Fiske had kept the score to 2-1 heading to the second.
Dundee soon tied the game back up as Philippe Sanche beat Owen from the right side in the 27th minute and they then had a chance to regain the lead with a five-minute powerplay after Fife’s captain, Olivier Leblanc was ejected from the match for slashing Stars forward, Jake Elmer between the legs in the 32nd minute.
Even with their man advantage for a long period, the Stars were struggling to score and would drop to play four-on-four when Elmer was penalised for a hooking foul, on 35 minutes.
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All images: Derek Black.
