Steelers Get Revenge on Home Ice

Published on: 23 Feb, 2026
Updated on: 23 Feb, 2026

Back on home ice, Sheffield Steelers avenged Saturday’s loss at Spectrum by scoring a pair of goals in the opening frame, widening it to 4 later on, then fending off a furious reply on the way to a 6-3 win over the visiting Guildford Flames.

Stephen Harper kicked off the scoring in the seventh minute and Mitchell Balmas, with just 39 seconds left in the frame, had the Yorkshire side up by a pair.

Robert Dowd and Jack Dougherty, about two minutes apart, near the midway mark, made it a four-goal spread. A 33rd-minute strike from Mathieu Gosselin got one back, then a Travis Brown follow-up inside the period’s last three minutes sent Flames to the break two goals adrift.

Flames forward Jack Jacome in action Sunday at Sheffield.  Hayley Roberts

A little over six minutes after the re-start Jamal Watson added another to bring Flames within a single goal, but a Patrick Watling reply shortly thereafter reopened a gap, then Harper’s second for the Steelers, about five minutes from time, thwarted a full comeback attempt.

“Falling behind early and then by such a wide margin made it tough on ourselves to play so much of the game chasing uphill to get it back,” said coach Paul Dixon. “We gave ourselves far too much work against such a quality team.”

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