Cardiff Devils twice let slip a one objective lead as they had been crushed 3-2 at Coventry Blaze within the Problem Cup on the Skydome Area.
Carson Musser scored the winner with simply over 4 minutes left for Blaze, who had suffered a 6-0 opening sport defeat by Sheffield Steelers 24 hours earlier.
Cardiff – who had begun their marketing campaign with a s – opened the scoring via Bayley Harewood.
It was a primary Elite League objective for Barry-born Harewood, .
The primary interval ended 1-1 after Griffin Ness' leveller, just for Kohen Olischefski to revive the Welsh facet's lead in a second interval that additionally noticed them lose ahead Riley Brandt to a significant penalty.
Ryan Richardson introduced the house facet stage once more with a power-play objective halfway via the third, earlier than Musser secured the comeback win.
"These had been robust situations; the ice was horrible. It didn't sit down all evening, and it's exhausting to play your sport, however that's for each groups," mentioned Devils' head coach Paul Thompson.
"On this sport you’ve got to take your probabilities after they come alongside. We didn't get that 3-1 objective, which can have sealed it. Credit score to the Blaze for coming again."
Sheffield Steelers high the Group A desk after the opening weekend, having adopted up their good-looking opening victory in opposition to Blaze with a shoot-out win at Guildford.
Nottingham Panthers are second, regardless of their sport at Manchester Storm being referred to as off, with Blaze third and Devils in fourth place.
Storm – who’re as a result of host Cardiff on Friday, 18 September – had been unable to play the sport due to "technical points with the ice" on the AO enviornment.
