On the face of it, having already won the NIHL National league title for a second year, games across this forthcoming final weekend of the regular season against Solway Sharks and Hull Seahawks probably don’t matter too much for Leeds Knights.
Not so, says head coach Ryan Aldridge. With the group play-off format set to launch the following weekend – with Leeds set to go back-to-back with Hull Seahawks first up on Friday, April 5 and Sunday, April 7 – Aldridge wants his players back up to speed and firing on all cylinders for what will be two hard-fought encounters.
” In an almost carbon copy of the first period on the previous night at Ice Sheffield, the Knights raced into another 3-0 lead on home ice on Sunday, Mac Howlett’s sixth-minute opener being enhanced by strikes from Matt Haywood and Jake Witkisowki. But, again like the previous night, the Steeldogs rallied after the first intermission, Lewis Bell, Lee Haywood and Vladislav Vulkanovs getting on the board with only Kieran Brown replying for the Knights on the power play in the 33rd minute.
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