Flames Get a Single Point in On-the-road Double

Published on: 5 Jan, 2026
Updated on: 5 Jan, 2026

Guildford Flames spent the weekend on the road at Nottingham Panthers and Dundee Stars, gaining a point during a 2-1 overtime loss at the former, and dropping a 4-3 score in the latter.

In a scoreless opening frame at Nottingham Flames netminder Taz Buman was forced to make 18 stops against a much quieter start for Kevin Carr who turned away five for Panthers.

The middle set looked like it too might not see any scoring, but Matt Alvaro changed that when he kicked off the count a little under three minutes from period time.

Just under five minutes into the third, Panthers pulled it even through Tim Doherty to force extra time where Matthew Marcinew delivered the final blow.

Burman made 33 saves on 35 shots while Carr was 22 for 23.

In Dundee, at 13 minutes, Justin Bean set Stars to a lead, and they carried the advantage into the middle frame.

Mathieu Gosselin (left) during the Dundee match Dundee Flames

Kameron Kielly doubled the host’s edge 83 seconds after re-start. Jack Jacome cut the deficit back to a single at 27:57, but a reply by Spencer Naas a few minutes later had Stars again enjoying a two-goal margin to begin the third.

Jake Coughler pulled Flames within a single at 46:24 only for Jonathan McBean to return the 2-goal spread just inside the last 10 minutes.

Not Long after that, Lewis Hook made it a 4-3 game just before Flames were forced to kill a pair of penalties including 41 seconds down two skaters leaving about three minutes to level, but even with an extra skater in the last 90 seconds Flames were unable to force extra time.

Burman made 22 saves on 26 shots while Emil Kruse posted the win with 26 saves on 29 shots.

“We were glad to get a point at Nottingham which was not a bad outcome overall,” said Paul Dixon, “but I thought we did enough at Dundee to get the win. We just did not convert on a lot of our very good chances.”

“It has been a tough holiday schedule, and we are glad to get home for a full week of training before taking on Coventry on home ice Saturday.”