Pre-season Win for Flames at Bristol

Published on: 30 Aug, 2026
Updated on: 30 Aug, 2026

Guildford Flames continued their training camp schedule with a visit to NIHL (National Ice Hockey League) side Bristol Pitbulls. Spectrum’s men jumped out to an early lead and never looked back on the way to an 11-1 win.

Goals from Josh Waller inside the opening five minutes, Brett Neumann on a powerplay a couple minutes later and Chase Gresock near the midway point of the frame had the visitors in command. Former Flames star John Dunbar cut the deficit immediately after that, but Waller’s second of the contest sent the visitors to break with a 4-1 advantage.

Waller completed his hat trick with a 27th minute strike. Another by Sam Talbot at 34:55 had Flames starting the third up by five.

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Gresock extended the difference just over a minute into the final stanza. Justin Ducharme added another seconds after that and his second came about five minutes later. Karl Boudrias put the score into double digits and former Pitbull, Elliot Lewis, closed the evening with the 11th less than two minutes from time.

“It was good to get opportunities on different parts of the game with some powerplay and penalty killing time,” explained coach Paul Dixon.

“We get home tomorrow night and get another chance to sharpen up a little more. I think guys are starting to get a bit more comfortable with each other and kind of building ourselves up to being in a good spot when cup and league competitions start in a couple of weeks.”

Goal scorers:
John Dunbar (Stewart, Bricknell) 10:05 Joshua Waller 04:27
Brett Neumann 06:49 – PPG
Chase Gresock (Ducharme, Boudrias) 09:25
Joshua Waller (Sanford) 11:19
Joshua Waller (Sanford) 26:41 – PPG
Sam Talbot (Waller) 34:55
Chase Gresock (Racine) 41:05
Justin Ducharme 41:29
Justin Ducharme 46:45
Karl Boudrias (Lewis, Talbot) 54:16
Elliot Lewis (Gresock, Kallen) 58:26

Match stats:

Period Scores: 1-4, 0-2, 0-5

Shots on goal: Bristol Pitbulls 21 Guildford Flames 49

Attendance: 1,306

Note: PPG – power play goal – Pitbulls’ were short handed with at least one skater in the sin-bin.