Cardiff Devils handled Glasgow Clan 2-1 in regulation, and they did it by banking a goal in each of the first two periods before leaning on their own end late. The margin never grew, but it never had to.
The Devils led 1-0 after twenty minutes and pushed it to 2-0 through forty, controlling the run of play in a game that stayed tight on the scoreboard. Glasgow's only answer came in the third, cutting it to 2-1 and setting up a one-goal finish Cardiff managed without surrendering the equalizer.
The telling number is the period split: 1-0, 1-0, 0-1. Two goals were enough because Cardiff kept the sheet clean for two full periods, and with scoring details incomplete, that structure — not any individual flourish — is the story of the night.