BRAEHEAD CLAN'S play-off push was brought to a premature end last night in a shock defeat to Hull Stingrays.

Only last Saturday the Glasgow side hammered the Stingrays 9-4 in their last home league game of the regular season ahead of the weekend's play-off quarter-final.

A battling hard-fought 3-2 win at Braehead Arena on Saturday left the tie on a knife edge going into last night's crunch second leg at the Hull Arena.

And after taking the lead in the third period through Matt Haywood to go 4-2 up on aggregate, two late goals from the team that finished seventh in the table sent the match hurtling into overtime.

It took the hosts three minutes and 43 seconds for Hull to grab the golden goal, meaning it is the Stingrays who will join Sheffield Steelers, Belfast Giants and the Coventry Blaze in next week's finals weekend in Nottingham.

It is a bitter blow for Ryan Finnerty's Braehead considering where there season was going only a few weeks ago.

Top of the league going into the final stretch, a shock loss in Edinburgh allowed Sheffield to overtake them and win the title, with any hope of making up for that disappointment next week now gone.

It means Braehead end this campaign in second place and as Gardiner Conference winners, while they can look forward to European hockey next season in the Champions Hockey League.