Flames Lose Again to Giants

Published on: 9 Nov, 2026
Updated on: 9 Nov, 2026

In the second night of a road double at Belfast Giants, Flames scored an early third period goal to go ahead, but Giants replied with three unanswered goals including an empty netter seconds from time to send Flames away with a 4-2 defeat.

A 19th minute Scott Conway goal had Giants ahead by a single.

It took until beyond the halfway mark for Flames to level thanks to Matt Alvaro’s goal at 31:33 that set up a winner take all third period.

A good re-start helped Flames to their first lead of the weekend thanks to Mathieu Gosselin, but Giants hit back just over a minute later off the stick of Morten Jensen to square it at two each and Jason Fram bagged the winner just inside the last 10 minutes.

Captain Matt Alvaro during Sunday’s game.  Alvaro had the Flames opening goal.  Belfast Giants

As Flames tried to tie in in the last minute with their net empty, Conway sent the puck into the unguarded cage to guarantee the Giants win.

Brad Arvanitis made 29 saves on 32 shots against Jake Kupsky who stopped eight of 10 his way.

“We didn’t generate as many offensive chances as we might have liked, but when you have a third period lead you want to be able to turn that kind of game into a win so it is disappointing to come out empty handed,” said head coach Paul Dixon.

“We have to re-look at some things when we get back and try be more effective against Sheffield and Nottingham next weekend.”

Match Stats by Don Starr

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