Coventry Blaze Reduces Flames to Single Point

Published on: 12 Jan, 2026
Updated on: 12 Jan, 2026

Flames took home a half reward for tying it in the third period and getting it to overtime, but Coventry Blaze took home the extra point when Grayson Constable bagged his second of the contest a little over two minutes from penalties.

About halfway through the opening frame, Flames turned the tables on a Blaze powerplay when Nick Seitz scored shorthanded to set Spectrum’s men to a lead and the hosts were able to repel a couple more powerplays to retain that margin to start the second period.

On approach to the evening’s midway mark, Blaze levelled through William Boysen, and they went ahead for the first time on their fourth powerplay thanks to Constable a little under six minutes from period time. Flames first powerplay came late in the set, but without a conversion, and Flames then closing the period on the penalty kill, the final stanza began with the home team still a goal adrift.

Action around Flames netminder Jake Kupsky who made 29 saves on 32 shots. John Uwins

The trailing side was able to see off the powerplay then, in the 46th minute, Jake Coughler had the evening all square at a pair each which set up the necessity for extra time and the Blaze decider.

“We had a lot of the play and some good opportunities in overtime so it is frustrating to go away without a win,” said coach Paul Dixon.

“The best part of our game was definitely the third and overtime, and we mostly did a very good job of penalty killing across the night, but we do have some things to clean up for our next start.”