Giants seal Elite League prize with Sheffield joy

The Giants added the Elite League cup to the Challenge Cup which they had won last month as the SSE Arena against the Cardiff Devils, and they have also secured their placed in the European Champions Hockey League (CHL), for the second later this year.

Earlier in the weekend the Giants had secured a 3-1 victory against the Steelers setting up the second game in the double header and leaving the Sheffield needing to beat the Giants to keep themselves in contention.

The Giants got themselves off to a flying start in the opening period when Mark Cooper scored on the powerplay after 92 seconds, with assists from Scott Conway and JJ Piccinich.

Meanwhile, later in the period goalie Tyler Beskorowany kept the Giants ahead later in the period with a diving save in the dying seconds of the period.

The second period saw the Steelers dominate. They got themselves back on to level terms 38 seconds into thanks to Tanner Eberle, with assists to John Armstrong and David Phillips.

The scores stayed level thanks to the efforts of Steelers’ goal Rok Stojanovic.

The final period proved to be a nail-biting affair for both Giants’ and Steelers’ fans, with the Steelers pushing for the win and the Giants focus on the championship.

The best chance of period came inside the final two minutes when Steelers’ Marc-Oliver Vallerand stormed Beskorowany’s goal and was unable to convert.

After review by the officials the chance was ruled not to be a goal and the teams played down to overtime.

Into overtime both teams had their chances to win the game but failed to capitalise on their chances.

In the shootout no goals were scored in the opening five shots.

After Armstrong saw his shot gloved by Beskorowany it fell to Conway who made to sure put the