Hull make the most of their chances to avenge defeat

Head coach Slava Koulikov called on Phantoms to be more ruthless following their Sunday setback.

The city team were beaten in Hull just 24 hours after seeing off the Pirates in the reverse fixture at Planet Ice.

“It was a night where we had really good chances and had we put them away it could have been a different outcome, but we needed to be more clinical,” said Koulikov.

“You have to take chances when they come on the road and we couldn’t do that but full credit to Hull.

“They made a real game of it on Saturday in our rink and were then very good on Sunday at home.”

Hull hit the front through Bobby Chamberlain in the opening period and that’s the way it stayed until the closing session when the remainder of the goals arrived.

Chamberlain doubled the hosts’ advantage on a powerplay before player-coach Tom Norton hit back to halve the arrears.

But Koulikov’s men were guilty of conceding just 42 seconds later to Sam Towner before a fourth Hull goal quickly followed from Lee Bonner.

Import ace Ales Padelek did cut the deficit late on for Phantoms, but they were left to rue good chances being spurned earlier in the contest.

“It was a good game with only one goal in it going into the third period,” added Koulikov.

“We still felt we had plen

HULL

10.41 Chamberlain ass: Hewitt/Norris 40.43 Chamberlain (PP) ass: Norris 47.13 Towner ass: Bonner

49.31 Bonner ass: Norris

PHANTOMS

46.31 Norton ass: Susters

57.36 Padelek ass: J. Ferrara/Susters

HULL

David Norris

PHANTOMS James Ferrara

ty of time to respond after conceding the second goal and we managed to get one back.

“But we then conceded two goals which were uncharacteristically sloppy and the game got away from us.”