LEEDS Knights were denied a second straight NIHL National double in the most dramatic of circumstances when they lost 4-3 after a penalty shoot-out to Peterborough Phantoms.
The Knights were looking to retain the play-off crown they won last year as well as add to the league title they won for a second successive time back in April. But they were denied in the cruelest of fashions when Luke Ferrara scored the decisive goal in the shoot-out to send the Phantoms bench delirious along with their fans behind the net where the winning strike took place.
The equaliser came when Jarvis Hunt drove down the right-hand boards, cut inside and fired into Sam Gospel’s top right-hand corner. The breakdown of a Knights play just inside the Phantoms’ zone then cost them dearly, Ferrara scampering down the left before switching play to Ivan Bjorkly Nordstrom, who let rip from the top of the right circle to leave Gospel with no chance .
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