Flames Make It a Weekend Cup Clean Sweep at Nottingham

Published on: 21 Sep, 2026
Updated on: 22 Sep, 2026

Guildford Flames produced an impressive road performance on Sunday afternoon, beating the Nottingham Panthers 4–1 at the Motorpoint Arena to make it back-to-back Challenge Cup victories.

The Flames made the perfect start when Karl Boudrias opened the scoring at 13:39 of the first period to give Guildford a 1–0 lead at the first intermission.

Nottingham responded early in the second period, with Zach O’Brien levelling the game at 28:15, but the visitors regained control and restored their lead with Nottingham’s Spencer Naas sent to the penalty box for tripping. Chase Gresock converted on the power play at 38:18.

The slim margin remained on the board into the final set before, Justin Ducharme at exactly 50 minutes, extended the Flames’ lead to 3–1. Panthers pulled their goaltender in the closing stages in an attempt to get back into the contest, but just 7 seconds from time, Josh Waller found the empty net to complete the scoring.

Brad Arvanitis who collected his first start and first win in Flames gear. Nottingham Panthers

Brad Arvanitis started in goal for Guildford, making 28 saves on 29 shots against Mat Robson who was 24 of 27.

Guildford Flames have moved from bottom of the standings two weeks ago to second. Click on table to enlarge.

“We didn’t feel we did enough last week to get us what we thought were potential results, and the guys were really dialled in across this set of games to get us full points,” said Assistant Coach Andy Hemmings.

“It is a long season, but this is what we need each and every time to be in with a shot at competing for silver. We know we have players who can do it and now we have to find a way to execute on more nights than not to continue with these kinds of positive results.”

Match Statistics (by Don Starr)