HK Metalurg Skopje won the first three games of the new season in the Balkan Ice Hockey League A-group.
In three games the Pirates received only two goals against in the opener on friday night versus the Ice Devils from Sofia, final result 5:2 for Skopje. The actual champion Ice Devils Sofia gave the Pirates a huge fight with only 8 men in the line up, but they could not follow the speed of the three lines of Metalurg. Skopje took the lead early and quickly in the second period scored a second goal - but the Ice Devils fought back and equalized the game 2:2. Before the end of the second Metalurg took again the lead and brought the game home with two more goals in the last period.
NSA Sofia was the second opponent in the season on Saturday night in the Slavia Arena. From the first minute on Metalurg dominated the game and it was no question that the game will be won. 4:0, 4:0 and 8:0 in the last period was the score and the Pirates crushed NSA with 16:0.
The youngest team in the league Dnjepr from Sofia was a hard opponent for the Pirates on Sunday morning. Chances on both sides marked the beginning of the game and it lasted a while till Metalurg opened the score in the first period. After every minute played Metalurg seemed more concentrated and finding into the game, Dnejpr earned no score of the good chances they had and Metalurg answered with three more goals to close the game 4:0.
Next games for Metalurg in the BaHL:
21/11/2014 – friday – 22:00 – NSA - Metalurg
22/11/2014 – saturday - 19:00 – Metalurg – Dinamo
23/11/2014 – sunday – 08:00 – Мetalurg – Dnjepr
Local bulgarian time
Standings:
Team - Games played - wins-draw-lost-goals-goals against-goal difference - points
Metalurg 3 3 0 0 25 2 23 9
Dnjepr 2 1 0 1 8 5 3 3
Dinamo 2 1 0 1 4 10 -6 3
Ice Devils2 0 1 1 6 9 -2 1
NSA 3 0 1 2 6 23 -17 1
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