COACH Sylvain Cloutier saluted his battle-weary Hull Stingrays players after they clinched three points out of four to end a nightmare week on a high.
Stingrays followed up Saturday's 4-3 loss on penalty shots in Fife by winning 5-4 in Edinburgh, despite having three players taken to hospital on Saturday night.
Sam Towner and Tom Squires suffered facial injuries after being hit by pucks in Fife, while a third, Matty Davies, also attended as a precaution.
The injuries topped off a week that saw Matt Suderman fly back to Canada, their Hull Arena home flooded and water damage to one, possibly two, of their four vehicles in the car park.
Cloutier paid tribute to his battling and bruised players.
He said: "To get three points this weekend was incredible.
"In the circumstances it is even more rewarding as to pull something like that off does not happen too often. The guys deserve all the credit.
"Fife is a tough building to play in so to get a point, the boys did great. Edinburgh are one of the hottest teams in the league right now, so to hold on to win by a goal was fantastic."
On Saturday, Stingrays fell behind to a Jordan Fulton goal at 2.22.
They levelled through Guillaume Doucet at 11.21 before Jason Silverthorn put them ahead with 55 seconds of the first period remaining.
Two goals from Justin DaCosta (21.58 powerplay) and Kyle Haines (27.26) saw Flyers lead once more before Squires was taken to hospital after a puck hit him in the face while sitting on the team bench.
Towner's night was also brought to a premature end when he too took a puck in the face during a challenge with Fife's Matt Nickerson.
Jereme Tendler made it a 3-3 game at 34.04 and after overtime failed to find a winner, the match went to penalty shots.
Tim Hartung and Doucet scored in the first round and in sudden death Carl Lauzon and Hartung converted before the latter ensured the extra point for the hosts with his third successful shot.
Last night, despite being down to two lines of players, Stingrays led 2-1 at the first break with goals from Silverthorn and Tendler, to one from Martin Cingel.
Kyle Mariani and Silverthorn netted for 4-1.
Capitals pulled back to 4-3 through Tomas Horna and Curtis Leinweber before Lauzon restored the two-goal cushion. Stingrays held on despite Horna's second strike six minutes from time.
One big plus point was Ukrainian defenceman Pavel Gomenyuk, who proved an unexpected success.
He retired in the summer, but was drafted in to replace Suderman.
Cloutier said: "Gomy did a great job. He is in good shape, he played a regular shift, he moved the puck well, he played on the powerplay and penalty killing and he made some nice hits – he did not look out of place."
