Coventry Blaze hit seven goals past the Cardiff Devils in a 7-3 win in South Wales on Thursday night
With Marc Lefebvre in charge as coach following his appointment yesterday, the Blaze travelled to Cardiff Devills and got off to the best possible start when Adam Henrich scored an unassisted goal on 2.24.
On 8.33, it was two when Ross Venus scored with another unassisted goal.
The Blaze had Kelsey Wilson and Michael Henrich both in the sin bin leaving them with a three against five from which Cardiff scored 12.31, through Mac Faulkner, assisted by Andrew Lord and Tomas Kurka.
When the two minutes were up and the Blaze were back to full strength, Coventry attacked and scored a third through Michael Henrich, assisted by Gerome Guidice and James Griffin on 14.12.
The Blaze fans were in raptures and there was another goal to celebrate when Ryan Ginand netted, assisted by James Griffin, twenty three seconds later.
Blaze net minder Zacharias made a great double save to deny first Marsh and then Morrisette before a highly satisfying opening period for the Blaze ended.
There was just under ten minute of the second period played, when Coventry scored a fifth goal through Ryan Ginand, who fired home unassisted on 29.33.