There were more positives than negatives for the Invicta Dynamos after a hit-and-miss weekend.

The Mos won 11-4 away against the Romford Buccaneers on Saturday and were beating Chelmsford Chieftains in Gillingham on Sunday before things began to go against them, eventually losing 4-2. Mos player Harrison Lillis spent the night in hospital after suffering a “significant dislocation” in the game against the Chiefs.

Saturday’s game saw them up against former star Juraj Huska when they faced the Buccs but four goals in the opening period put the Dynamos well in control.

Louis Colvin, Oli Bronnimann and Ruskin Springer-Hughes (2) all scored. Both teams scored two apiece in the second period before the Mos ran away with it in the third, with Tom Soar bagging a couple and Springer-Hughes completing the win.

“We started extremely well in the first period,” said Mos’ head coach Karl Lennon, reflecting on their weekend opener.

“They were a bit of an unknown to us because we haven’t seen any of them really, a newish roster, and they had no Raiders game that day so they had a couple of players from their senior team down for the Buccaneers. We knew something about those guys from playing in pre-season at least.

“First period we were fantastic, our structure and intensity was good and I was somewhat surprised to be 4-0 ahead. I didn’t expect it to be so comfortable.

“Second period we started okay, then we had a weird period when they scored a powerplay goal and also a shorthanded goal against us which was quite frustrating, because we gave away the puck in silly places and they broke on us and scored. You shouldn’t really be giving away situations like that, but we did.

“After a bit of a wobble in the first few minutes of the third period our class shone through and the score was run up a bit.

“We had some really good finishing on the night, the guys were scoring across all the lines which was very good from a coach’s point of view. It was a solid performance in the end.”

Old rivals Chelmsford came to town on Sunday and the Mos were 1-0 up at the end of the first period and led 2-1 by the close of the second.

Both teams picked up a five minute major following a toe-to-toe between Harrison Lillis and Chiefs’ Alan Lack - leading to a hospital visit for the home player to fit his shoulder back in place.

Regan O’Neil had scored Mos’ second goal but a broken skate also left him out of action and in the third period the visitors were more ruthless in front of goal, turning the match on its head.

Twice the Mos had good chances to score, which weren’t converted, and twice Chelmsford went straight down the other end to finish and late on they added a fourth.

“It was a bit scrappy but we looked quite comfortable,” said Lennon, after the opening two periods.

“Harry had to leave the game to go to hospital and have his shoulder put back into place and after that we lost Regan O’Neil.

“The plastic holder of his skate broke, rather than the blade. You can’t change those very quickly. He tried a couple of other pairs of boots that were either the wrong size or were not up to standard and he couldn’t finish the game which was a pain because he played absolutely fantastic up to that point and was very solid defensively.

“It meant that we were a little bit short on the back end. We were trying to shuffle the deck a bit to try and get ourselves sorted.

“We still had some spells in the third period. They equalised after we’d had a chance, which we missed, which killed a bit of momentum and then exactly the same thing happened again. It was that real momentum killer for us then.

“We were still in the game and looking for that equaliser with five or so minutes left but they got another goal with about 40 seconds to go, we made a bad change and that was that, it was done.

“I was very happy with with the first two periods, we just couldn’t get it done, but more positives than negatives.”

The club issued a statement on Monday regarding the injury to Lillis, where he “suffered a significant dislocation to his shoulder.”

He’ll now be missing for several weeks and the club said: “We would also like to take this opportunity to offer our immense gratitude and thanks to our fantastic team medic, Joe Rodgers, who supported Harry throughout the evening.

“He accompanied him to the hospital, elevated his arm for 4 hours to help ease some of the pain and remained with him until Harry was discharged from hospital at 4.30am. We are extremely lucky to have Joe at our club and he always goes above and beyond to look after our team – thank you so much.”