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	GOALS						PENALTIES				GOALS						PENALTIES
31 Danny Lorenz  (N/M)	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	31 Trevor Robins N/M
35 Pasi Hakkinen (N/M)	1	16	72	17	16.49		4	Unsportlike	2	25.42	1	28	-	-	15.57		12	HiStick	2	3.43	35 David Trofimenkoff N/M
4 Brent Pope	2	11	17	32	53.36	PP	14	Holding	2	30.05	2						11	Unsportlike	2	25.42	2 Doug Searle
5 Patrick Wallenberg	3						8	Holding	2	32.53	3						2	Roughing	2	32.53	6 Kim Ahlroos
8 Clayton Norris	4						72	Elbows	2	40.55	4						12	Holding	2	35.59	7 Sean Blanchard
10 Randall Weber	5						44	Unsportlike	2	47.20	5						21	Roughing	2	40.55	8 Trevor Roenick
11 Greg Hadden (A)	6						11	Slashing	2	50.08	6						21	Holding	2	53.01	9 David Struch (C)
14 Frank Evans	7						24	HiStick	2	58.59	7						44	HiStick	2	58.59	10 David Clarke
16 Claude Savoie	8										8										11 Nathan Leslie
17 PC Drouin	9										9										12 Maurizio Mansi (A)
X 18 A.J. Kelham DND* X	10										10										X 16 Steve Thornton DND* X
19 Steve Moria	11										11										17 Mark Kolesar (A)
21 Ashley Tait	12										12										19 Mike Barrie
X 22 Paul Adey DND* X	13										13										21 Ian McIntyre
24 Jimmy Drolet	14										14										25 Rich Bronilla
32 Joel Poirier (C)	15										15										28 Vezio Sacratini
X 42 Paul Moran DND* X	16										16										X 32 Mike Ware DND* X
44 Barry Nieckar (A)	17										17										X 33 Rob Donovan DND* X
55 Darren Maloney	18										18										44 Paul Rushforth
72 Lee Jinman
77 Calle Carlsson

* Did Not Dress

Notes:

31 Danny Lorenz and 31 Trevor Robins played in nets.  The Panthers starting forward lines were Moria/Tait/Nieckar, Savoie/Drouin/Jinman, Poirier/Hadden/Wallenberg.  The Panthers starting defensive lines were Evans/Norris, Carlsson/Pope, Maloney/Drolet.

At 2.57 there was a break in play as the door at the far end had a support join put in the top of the two plexi boards.  They had looked at this before the start, but ignored it.

In the first period there were three occasions when 31 Trevor Robins was totally wrongfooted by the puck taking an odd bounce off the boards in the corner to his left.  This strange phenomenon did not recur during the rest of the game.

At 25.42, 11 Nathan Leslie pinned 11 Greg Hadden to the boards with a forearm in the back of the helmet and a scuffle broke out.  Hadden gave Leslie a face wash, but 4 Brent Pope stepped in to push Leslie away.  Pope and Leslie both got two minutes for Unsportsmanlike Conduct.

At 28.32 a scuffle broke out in the corner involving roughly six players who ended up in a knot on the boards.  4 Brent Pope went for 44 Paul Rushforth as it was being disentangled, but no penalties were handed out.

The penalties at 32.53 and 40.55 on 8 Clayton Norris and 72 Lee Jinman respectively caused uproar from the home crowd as no one could work out where referee Boniface was getting the penalties from as Norris didn't retaliate after 2 Doug Searle hit him in the back of the head and Jinman also walked away when 21 Ian McIntyre elbowed him.  Either the penalties happened earlier, but were called ridiculously late and only after the Knights players had got their shots in, or Boniface was trying to even everything up.  Go figure.  Strange to note that he called the Elbows penalty on Jinman, but then singularly failed to spot any of the three elbows to the head Jinman received during the rest of the game.

At 39.03, 16 Claude Savoie delivered a check on 25 Rich Bronilla who fell badly into the boards.  A stop in play was called as Bronilla required treatment.  He was led to his bench bleeding heavily from a cut on his forehead.  No penalty was awarded.  At the following face off, 28 Vezio Sacratini complained loudly that play shouldn't continue as there was blood on the ice, but he was ignored.  Bronilla rejoined play in the 3rd period.

At 45.10, 24 Jimmy Drolet went down in the Knights end clutching his knee.  He received treatment on the ice, but was in obvious pain.  44 Barry Nieckar and the physio helped Drolet off the ice.  Drolet rejoined the game at around 50.00.

At 47.20 there was a scuffle in the Knights crease as 8 Clayton Norris took a wander after the play had stopped around the blue line and came to a stop by bumping into 31 Trevor Robins fairly gently for no apparent reason.  Robins and Norris eyeballed each other for a bit before Knights jumped inbetween them to protect their netminder.  About six men stood in a big huddle looking at each other a lot, at which point Robins appeared to trip over the side edge of the net and fell over backwards.  44 Barry Nieckar who was on the other side of the six players received a 2 minute penalty for being in the vicinity at the time.  Following this incident, Robins was booed every time he touched the puck.

With roughly a minute to go, the Knights pulled their netminder.

The Knights called a time out at 59.57 just prior to a face off at the Panthers' end.

Guestbook Comments

Name: Finny
Homepage: http://devilsflame.freeservers.com
Homepage Title: The Devils Flame
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Cardiff Devils
Location: Cardiff
Sent: 14.59 - wed 14 nov 2001

Hi - I'm a Cardiff fan who went to the game last night as a neutral, hope you dont mind me giving my views on the game.  Overall, I thought it was a pretty even match and a draw would have been a fair result (doubt you'll agree to that though ! :-) )

I personally didnt think Boniface was too bad for most of the match - although he lost it a bit at start of 3rd. If anything, I would say he was a bit soft on the panthers player - there was a couple of times (IMHO) when Norris shoud have been called for roughing but it wasnt. I am pretty sure too that he knocked over Robins accidentally - although I think something happened after the inital collision which is why Nieckar was called.

I am amazed that no one has mentioned the terrible boarding from behind on London's Bronilla. The speed at which his face caught the corner of the boards was sickening, I hope its not as serious as it looked.  I'm certainly not saying the nottingham player intended to check him badly, but it was a stupid decision to check him when he was that far away from the board. Players careers are finished because of 'accidents' like that (and IMO it was an accident - but very stupid and dangerous play).

Anyway, well done on the win - no idea why Pope got MOTM though - all he did was argue with Sacratini all night - or is that why he got MOTM ? :-)

Name: Mythos Man
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: HC Excalibur Znojemsti Orli
Location: Long Eaton
Sent: 13.46 - wed 14 nov 2001

A deserved win last night, although not pretty to watch. Thought that Savoie and Moria both had much better games than of late - long may that continue! Thought we were lucky to get the GWG with a player standing in the netminder's zone by the far post, but what the hell - we've had some similar ones given against us, so you take what you get. Have to agree that Boniface was appalling - some really dangerous high stickwork, particularly on Jinman and Drouin, went unpunished all night. Easy to see why players take punishment into their own hands! Also agree that the DJ has completely lost the plot!  Interesting form of introduction though - "He scored in Bracknell ..." Didn't hear "He was thrown out in Bracknell ..." when he got to Barry ;0) Very poor crowd though, estimated at 2,900 - must worry Herr Flick?

Name: Paul
Sent: 10.34 - wed 14 nov 2001

Good result last night. Is that a corner I see behind me?

Nice goal from Savoie but a brilliant pass from Jinman to make it.

Didn't think Boniface had the best of games. He missed an absolutely horrendous cross check on the back of Jinman's head from Nate "Thanks for the job Dad" Leslie.

Robins always has the stick up. Mainly he's defending his crease but he can go a bit too far sometimes. Compared to the like of Pete or Dave Graham or Ron Hextall he's an absolute saint though.

I don't want to re-start the Nieckar debate again but did anyone else notice the protracted lap of honour he went on after the game? Bidding us a fond farewell for a while was he?

As for the announcer what did you expect? Nice to see Struch acknowledge us & get acknowledged at the end.

Name: Adam
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Old Panthers + Many More
Location: Block 14, Seat 12, Row P, 3 hours ago
Sent: 01.23 - wed 14 nov 2001

Just got in from the boozer tonight and i've had to break open a box of cleanex as i've had a serious nosebleed, third in the league eh, last time we were that high was four years ago if you can remember!?!?!

As for tonights performance, it's a step in the right direction as far as i'm concerned. Both Moria and Savoie have come under stick of late (Savoie particulary from me) but after seeing them perform well in Bracknell on Sunday and against London tonight, I think that they've turned the corner this season and become regular performers, keep it up guys. Also, well done Danny and the defense in front of him. They kept things solid at the back an didn't allow too many un-necessersary shots at Lorenz.

As for the booing of a former Panthers hero and favourite (Trevor Robins), well shame on you. Nieckar clearly ran him which consequently knocked him over, Trev skates off to the corner as he usually does to recover his composure and then big mouth Ian McIntyre talks Boniface into giving Nieckar a minor penalty, how clear do you want it? Barry felled Robins as directly as you could get, and the Knights player talks the ref into giving the penalty, absolutely nothing to do with Trevor Robins who's away from Boniface. Please cut the guy some slack, it was clear to me that Robins was felled but he didn't press Boniface to give Nieckar a penalty did he!?

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Name: Shaggy
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: #72 Jinman - Simply The Best...
Location: Nottingham
Sent: 01.15 - wed 14 nov 2001

Phew! talk about an edge-of-the-seat ride....
Can't believe that half-pint wind-up merchant Sacos**te got their goal....
Some heart-stopping moments, some very good moves, and a ruddy awful performance from Bonifarce! (come on Nigel - explain to us WHY you didn't call that Too Many Men penalty against them near the end? eh??).
And what was with the lineys? - missing icing & offside calls for both sides, and calling an icing in our favour which should never have been!
Someone ought to tell Bob Leslie he doesn't have to live up to the dirty-tricks reputation of Chris McSorley - gawds, talk about cynical play or what!

And re the two most currently controversial Panthers players at the moment....
Baz Neickar - good game from him, some good play-making and attacking moves. And he kept it clean. Which makes his actions on Sunday all the more puzzling and frustrating. I don't know - I make no pretense to have all the answers.... guess we'll just have to sit back and see.

Now for me to eat some words (do I get some condiments?).
Claude Savoie had a good game, IMHO - not just his goal (which was a good 'un), but some very good moves (including a beautiful bit of defensive play at just the right time). And who was parking in front of the crease trying to screen Robins? #16, that's who - doing what many of us have been praying for for a while now...
Again - I dunno - maybe he's 'turned the corner'. If he carries on like this, though, it would be a crying shame to ditch him, just based on previous performances...
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Name: Jono#72
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: New away
Location: Basford, Nottingham
Sent: 01.05 - wed 14 nov 2001

make no mistake, that was one hell of a performance tonight. We really ground out that win, two points very well won. I won't dwell on the referee as too much has been written about them already this season, suffice to say he was horrendous.
Great performances from Jinman, Drouin, Savoie, Moria (my MOM), Maloney & Norris. Pope MOM??? didn't get that one, but he did have a good game.
All in all a good nights work from the panthers. Let's hope the winning run can contiue for a few games, then I really will believe that we can win the title.

Name: SROG
Location: NOTTM
Sent: 20.22 - wed 14 nov 2001

Re Savoie, "Appalling boarding from behind", errm no i don't think so!! It was not from behind at all!! Bronilla had his head down, something that pee-wee coaches tell the little un's not to do & he didn't brace himself for the VERY hard but perfectly fair check from Claude (elbows & stick were both down), ref saw it linesmen saw it & guess what no call......