Raiders will look to get their National League campaign back on track after a frustrating three-game weekend yielded just a single point.

They head to lowly Telford tomorrow (Saturday), before hosting mid-table rivals Sheffield at the Sapphire Ice & Leisure Centre on Sunday (5.15pm).

And they will be hoping for a better return than last weekend, when they snatched overtime defeat from the jaws of victory against leaders MK Lightning, then lost a double-header against Swindon, who climbed up to second after Leeds lost at bottom club Berkshire Bees.

Zach Yokoyama, who scored 26 points in 19 games as injury cover for Adam Laishram, said before his departure from the club this week: “It’s a tough one, MK on Friday and then Swindon yesterday and today.

“It’s hard on the legs, but we definitely pushed it.

“Today [Sunday] was a bit harder, but very good to play the last few games.

“It’s challenging, but it’s good. Makes me better every game, makes you think, but it’s good.”

Shaun Miller cancelled out a first-minute opener by Lightning on Friday, before helping set up Andrew Shewfelt to put Raiders 2-1 up.

And Tjay Anderson netted inbetween a pair of Lightning goals, before Shewfelt made it 4-3 at the start of the final period.

Only 15 seconds were left on the clock when the visitors tied it up again, having withdrawn their goalie for an extra skater.

And they sealed a 5-4 win with just over a minute of the sudden-death period played.

Raiders took a point from the overtime loss and saw Jake Sylvester open the scoring in Swindon, but former Romford junior Glenn Billing replied in each period for a hat-trick to put the hosts 3-1 up.

And after Sylvester converted on a 5-on-3 advantage, Raiders withdrew goalie Ethan James on another powerplay but saw Wildcats net a shorthanded empty-net goal with 32 seconds left to secure a 4-2 victory.

Raiders bench coach Lewis Jones said: “It’s a tough one to take but we know we can beat these.

“Ethan stood tall, fantastic as ever. He was dialled in tonight, dialled in last night, he brings it every night and does a fantastic job for us.

“He gives us a chance to win and that’s all we can ask for from Ethan.

“We just need to make sure we’re a little bit tighter on our [penalty] kill.

“All of their goals came on special teams, and the shorthander for the empty net when we’ve thrown the dice.”

After a scoreless opening period in Romford on Sunday, Swindon struck twice in the middle session and either side of another Shewfelt effort early in the final period to lead 4-1.

Miller hit back, but another late effort saw Swindon skate off with a 5-2 triumph.

“I think we started slow. Probably the three games in consecutive days,” said Raiders captain Jack Cooper, whose side now sit in sixth place.

“Powerplay looked decent over the weekend, we just need to capitalise when we’re going 5-on-3.

“Other teams do it to us, we need to work on that. That will help us win those sort of games.

“It’s tough sometimes. Ethan stood on his head this weekend, so without him it’s a completely different game.”