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2024-2025
 

The 2024 off season was a busy one for Flames as they implemented one of the biggest re-tools in recent memory with just 8 skaters returning from the year prior.  Lewis Hook, Matt Alvaro, Ryan Tait, Brett Ferguson, and Sam Talbot up front with Defenders Marcus Tesink, Mike Crocock and Kyle Locke resuming on the blue line.  Eamon McAdam and Adam Long returned to the net, joined for this season by newcomer Jake Kupsky.

Hopes were high for a new lineup that appeared to add significant firepower with former NHLer Dan Catenacci rostered along with former Cardiff Devils star Jake Coughler, Nottingham Panthers standout Brett Welychka and Daniel Tedesco returning for a 2nd stint with the club after tallying 90+ points just 2 seasons prior.  Spectrum’s men also secured the services of British international Josh Waller and the youngest of the foreign contingent, Canadian Ethan Strang. They would play in front of incoming Defencemen Travis Brown most recently of the Belfast Giants and Charlie Dodero fresh off a championship in Slovenia. 

Excitement for what was believed to be a team that might be competing for a title, was dampened early and often starting with an opening night loss at Manchester Storm.  Flames recovered the next night in the return visit on home ice, but 4 consecutive losses that followed in the newly formatted Cup competition already had hopes for advanced Cup round play fading; a reality of which eventually came to fruition while finishing last in the group thanks to just 2 wins in 10 Cup games.  Worse than results was an indication of what was to be the story of the season for Flames when Welychka suffered a training injury in the opening week that would keep him out until mid December. It was the start of a medical crisis the club had not seen in its entire existence that ended with just 2 players appearing in all 54 league outings.  The early months saw Coughler and Locke both leave the ice and not return for the season, while a host of other injuries across the roster had Flames playing short staffed for nearly the entire campaign.  There were some silver linings with the additions of Defenceman Charlie Curti and forward Jack Jacome early on to fill some gaps.  The injury run also eventually returned Austin Glover to the front lines after his season ending injury the year prior, while James Shearer, Sam Jones, himself sidelined for around 3 months shortly after arrival, and Zack Hoffman all came in to help patrol a severely depleted blue line unit that had 9 rostered at the position often with only 4 able to take to match duty.  All of the mid season signings helped Flames maintain a solid home record and gain a little more than half the points on offer over the course of the schedule, eventually settling for a 6th place league table finish and a playoff quarter final date against Nottingham Panthers. 

The post season 2 leg aggregate goal event started well for Spectum’s men on home ice with a 3-2 Leg 1 win, but a 6-3 defeat at Nottingham in Leg 2 just 24 hours later eliminated Flames from playoff contention.     

League Table
GP W OTW L OTL/SOL GF GA PTS
Belfast* 54 31 6 11 6 208 132 80
Sheffield 54 33 4 14 3 217 137 77
Nottingham 54 30 4 14 6 182 120 74
Cardiff 54 29 3 18 4 178 143 68
Coventry 54 23 7 20 4 183 167 64
Guildford 54 22 3 22 7 179 174 57
Glasgow 54 19 7 25 3 166 188 55
Dundee 54 18 4 27 5 169 204 49
Manchester 54 19 3 29 3 168 197 47
Fife 54 3 2 47 2 117 305 12

*League Champions
 
Challenge Cup Group A Table
GP W OTW L OTL/SOL GF GA PTS
 Sheffield Steelers* 10 5 2 1 2 38 30 16
 Cardiff Devils* 10 6 0 3 1 42 32 13
 Nottingham Panthers* 10 4 2 3 1 32 29 13
 Coventry Blaze 10 3 2 3 2 32 35 12
 Manchester Storm 10 2 2 5 1 32 38 9
 Guildford Flames 10 2 0 7 1 23 35 5

*Clinched Quarter Final Berth

Cup Champions: Belfast Giants

Playoffs

Playoff Quarter Finals

Game 1: Guildford 3 Nottingham 2
Game 2: Nottingham 6 Guildford 3
(Nottingham win 8-6 on aggregate)

Playoff Champions: Nottingham Panthers

Player Stats
Player  GP G A PTS PM
Ryan Tait 65 14 40 54 4
Ethan Strang 65 28 25 53 6
Matt Alvaro 64 30 23 53 75
Daniel Tedesco 63 15 35 50 59
Jack Jacome 60 21 27 48 55
Brett Ferguson 60 13 25 38 79
Joshua Waller 62 13 24 37 16
Daniel Catenacci 56 19 18 37 90
Lewis Hook 60 12 22 34 12
Charlie Dodero 46 7 24 31 94
Travis Brown 64 4 27 31 67
Charlie Curti 55 8 21 29 35
Brett Welychka 35 11 12 23 31
Mike Crocock 64 1 20 21 26
Sam Jones 20 4 8 12 14
Samuel Talbot 66 2 8 10 10
Austin Glover 29 1 7 8 8
Kyle Locke 20 2 4 6 20
Marcus Tesink 50 1 3 4 37
Jake Coughler 11 1 2 3 27
Sean Norris 20 1 1 2 0
James Shearer 26 1 1 2 4
Zack Hoffman 14 0 2 2 18
Stephen Calisti 10 0 0 0 9

 
Netminder MINS SOG GA Save % SO GA.AV
Jake Kupsky 1917 1117 95 91.50% 2 2.97
Eamon McAdam 2025 1156 108 90.65% 1 3.20
Adam Long 19 3 0 100.0% 0 0.00

 

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Surrey GU1 1UP

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