It was the perfect start to the weekend for the Invicta Dynamos as they won 5-4 at the Streatham Redskins.

The Dynamos had to make do without the services of Haydn & Taylor Wootton, Grant Baxter, Damien Welch and the injured Adam McNicoll.

For Streatham, Chris Wiggins was missing but it was a debut for the returning Callum Best.

Any fear the Dynamos would start the game with nerves was put to rest as early as the ninth second when Steve Osman tested home netminder Will Sanderson.

The Dynamos kept the pressure on and they got rewarded for their effort in the third minute when Steve Osman tucked the puck past Sanderson following hard work from Eriks Ozollapa who claimed the assist.

It only took the home side two minutes to equalise, Kamil Kinkor claiming the goal with assists from Nicky Chinn and Callum Best.

Perhaps the pass of the night from Steve Osman opened-up the Streatham defence in the 7^th minute leaving Ozollapa one on one with Sanderson and making it 2-1 in favour of the visitors.

Not prepared to sit back the Dynamos kept attacking at every opportunity and following a face-off in the Streatham zone Ondrej Zosiak and Conor Redmond combined and when Zosiak shot Steve Osman tipped the puck past the diving hand of Sanderson to stretch the lead by two goals.

With the first period edging to a close, Streatham’s Jack Tarczycki was penalised for holding which the Dynamos took advantage from with Bailey Wootton feeding Ozollapa who spun on the turn and fired in the fourth Dynamo goal.

Barely half a minute later Conor Redmond extended the lead to 5-1 with the Dynamos probably wishing the period would never end.

Streatham changed netminders for the second period, Sanderson being replaced for David Wride.

It was Streatham who started the period stronger, and a Jacob Ranson holding penalty was just the opportunity the Redskins needed when they pulled back a goal in the 26^th minute through Joe Johnston.

Joe Allen then made it 5-3 in the 34^th minute to tee-up an interesting third period.

The travelling Dynamo fans were chewing their fingers nail from the 49^th minute after Joe Allen scored in a crowded penalty to put Streatham only a goal behind.

Although conscious of being only a goal in front by this point the Mo’s kept attacking at every opportunity and should have scored a sixth goal in the 52^nd minute when Bailey Wootton was in the clear one-on-one with Wride but he agonisingly shot wide of the goal.

Damien King was superb in the Dynamos net and along with his fellow skaters the Dynamos held out to record their second victory at Streatham this season.

Damien King picked-up the man of the match beers for the Dynamos whilst the hosts man of the match went to James Warman.

Next up for Invicta is a home game versus the London Raiders with Nicky Lewis an injury doubt after only being able to participate in the first period.