Dundee Stars’ recent form slump continued last night with a 6-3 home loss to Nottingham Panthers their sixth straight defeat.
The reverse means the Marc Lefebvre’s team failed to collect a point this weekend following their 5-2 defeat at lowly Manchester Storm on Saturday and Dundee have been overtaken by rivals Fife Flyers, who have now won their last four games.
Stars stay on 43 points from 41 games while Fife moved on to 44 from 40 and Nottingham’s third win in a row moved them into the top three, with Braehead Clan slipping down to fourth.
Panthers pulled away from their opposition in the final session, winning it 4-1 after the opening two periods had produced 1-1 scorelines.
Four goals in less than six, third-period minutes ended the contest with evergreen David Ling top scoring with a double.
Stars’ goals came from Mikael Lidhammar, assistant player-coach Bobby Chaumont and Doug Clarkson.
Fife beat Braehead Clan 4-3 in Glasgow and shocked their hosts by taking the lead in the first minute through Danny Stewart.
Flyers went 2-0 up with a Kyle Haines goal after 29 minutes and a third from TJ Caig seven minutes later.
Jamie Fritsch opened the Glasgow side’s account with 22 seconds left in the middle session and Alex Leavitt reduced the deficit further after 47 minutes.
Clan raised the temperature with a third after 51 minutes, with Fritsch on the mark for a second time, but they were unable to find a way past Fife netminder David Brown.
On Saturday Mathew Sisca top scored for the Storm in their 5-2 success over Stars, whose goals came from Justin Faryna and Brett Switzer.
Fife Flyers hammered Edinburgh Capitals 8-1 at Kirkcaldy. Kyle Haines started the rout before Shayne Stockton and Michael Dorr made it 3-0.
Justin Fox, Patrick Cullen, Danny Stewart and Nico Sacchetti put Flyers 7-0 up before Taylor Dickin counted for Capitals.
Dorr added his second and Fife’s eighth late on.
Dundee Tigers thrashed Kilmarnock 11-2 to move up the Scottish National League table.
Scott Marr claimed a treble with Grant Reekie grabbing double.
Paul Guilcher, Stuart Barnett, Daniel Topping, Andrew Henderson, Robbie Barnett and Kris Phillips were the other marksmen.