Flames Complete Pre-season with 3-2 Defeat at Coventry

Published on: 8 Sep, 2025
Updated on: 8 Sep, 2025

Tyler Preziuso, the Canadian forward scored his first for the Flames on Sunday night. Scott Wiggins

Guildford Flames dominated the shot count, but couldn’t recover an early deficit, eventually closing the pre season with a 3-2 defeat at Coventry Blaze.

William Boysen opened the scoring for Blaze in the fourth minute. A shorthanded marker by Kim Tallberg at 8:29 doubled their margin, but a quick powerplay reply by Marcus Tesink cut Flames deficit in half to begin the second.

Despite continuing to dominate the shot count through 40 minutes, 34-10 in favour of the visitors at that stage, Flames found themselves down a pair thanks to a Grant Mismash strike at 24:03.

Early in the third, Spectrum’s men pulled closer off the stick of Tyler Preziuso, but couldn’t find another despite finishing the night on a 52-16 shot advantage.

Taz Burman was 13 of 16 while Dershahn Stewart turned away 50 of 52 shots his way.

“That’s a game where you look back and have to think hard to figure out how you didn’t win it,” said Paul Dixon.

“We had a lot of good things happen in terms of territorial play, puck possession and shots, so a lot of things where you go away feeling good about it, but we have to be able to convert that to goals.”

“As we move into Cup play next weekend, we hope the transition from pre-season will see some better timing around the net with our good opportunities going forward.”

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