Manchester Phoenix captain Kenton Smith has assured fans they will improve despite successive defeats to Sheffield Steelers at the weekend.

Phoenix lost 7-3 in Sheffield on Saturday before being beaten 5-4 at home the next day.

Smith said: "We will bounce back and learn from the errors we made.

"We were unlucky not to get something from the game [on Sunday], we all thought David [Beauregard] had given us the lead but the ref differed."

He added: "They made the most of that incident by scoring two quickly to take the period.

"Missing Tony [Hand] and Murph [Stephen Murphy] was tough but to lose Bruce Mulherin was another big loss to us."

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