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Stewart Roberts
Apr 18, 04 - 5:23 PM |
GB beat Belgium and avoid relegation
18 April 2004, Jordal Amfi Arena, Oslo, Norway BRITAIN-BELGIUM 6-0 (4-0,1-0,1-0) Scoring: 1-0 GB Meyers 0.20 2-0 GB Tait (Hoad,Jamieson) sh 9.58 3-0 GB Clarke (Tait, Thornton) pp 11.50 4-0 GB Myers (Meyers) 16.01 5-0 GB Phillips (Clarke) sh 20.52 6-0 GB Ward (Myers, Shields) 50.08 Netminding: Watkins GB 5-5 -6 16 Steylen/Cremer BEL 16-8-12 36 Penalty minutes: GB 6, Belgium 10. Goals/powerplays: GB 1/5 Belgium 0/3. GB Man of Match: Tait. Referee: Rudolf Lauff (Slovakia) Attendance: 630 Thornton was back in the side, albeit only for the opening minutes, as Britain faced relegation for the first time since Bratislava in 1995. The nerves were steadied with a flukey goal after only 20 seconds when the puck deflected high into the air and the Belgian goalie lost sight of it. When Clarke made it 3-0 after 12 minutes, everyone could relax, especially as Steylen, the Belgian's first choice netminder, was having a stinker. He was replaced in the second period by Cremer but within a minute, Phillips beat him to make it 5-0. The first five goals were all scored by home-grown players as McSorley rested most of his tired and battered dual nats. Paul Moran impressed on defence. Watkins needed only 16 saves for his shutout. "Our national programme has a long way to go," said McSorley afterwards. "There are not enough home-grown players in the Elite League so I'm pleased they have agreed to impose a limit on their overseas contingent next season." As this limit is as high as eleven imports and applies only during the cross-over games with the rival British National League, it is debatable how much difference this will make. |
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Ronnie Nichol
Apr 18th, 2004 - 9:08 PM |
Re: GB beat Belgium and avoid relegation
He seems to keep missing the point re EIHL Stew! Nearly all the estabished Brits are in BNL, therefore the guys who have impressed in EIHL are in effect a bonus to the development of Brits. Indeed you can argue that EIHL have developed more Brits than BNL,who mainly have the same guys as before!! Of course a good few of the estabished Brits might end up with EIHL teams NEXT season - be interesting what BNL clubs do then? |
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