BRADFORD BULLDOGS will be hoping to rediscover their ability to find the back of the net when they head to the home of defending NIHL North Two champions, Telford Tigers 2 this weekend.

The Bulldogs are enduring a tough transition campaign after losing several key players at the end of last season, either to retirement or moves elsewhere.

At 13 games in, the Bulldogs find themselves third-bottom with just the three wins to their name.

Their last two games have seen them fail to register a goal, following up a 6-0 defeat at Altrincham Aces two weeks ago with a 9-0 loss to the same opponents on home ice last Sunday.

Their task will get no easier this weekend when they head to Shropshire to take on Telford, one of only two undefeated teams in the division.

Already the Tigers find themselves in a two-horse race for the title with current leaders Sutton Sting, who are only ahead having played three more games.

Telford enjoyed a 10-3 win at Bradford back in September and will be expecting to pick up another three points on home ice.

Against Altrincham at home, the Bulldogs were up against it from the start, outshot 20-5 in the first period at the end of which they were trailing 2-0 following goals from Carl Price and Elliot Hunt.

The game was effectively ended as a contest, however, when the visitors plundered four goals in as many minutes around the halfway point.

Price skated down the middle of ice to make it 3-0 at 29.45 before Kane Morin added a fourth just under two minutes later.

There was to be no respite for the hosts when Billy King and former Bulldogs’ forward Malachi Budd then scored within 20 seconds of each other in the 34th minute.

By the 45th minute, it was 8-0 after Max Sullivan and Price - with his hat-trick marker - left Bulldogs’ goalie Jack Mickevicius beaten again, Ronnie Grimes rounding off the rout with just 10 seconds remaining.