Great Britain netminder Ben Bowns and Goaltending Coach Euan King will be part of a live Zoom this Thursday (25th March). Romford Junior Raiders present ‘An Evening with the Goalies’ from 7pm. The pair will talk through their careers and will take part in a question and answer session. Link to Zoom: https://zoom.us Meeting ID:…
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Great Britain forwards Sam Duggan and Liam Kirk are to appear on a Scottish Ice Hockey webinar this evening. The duo will take part in the Friday Night Live feature which gets under way at 8pm. Both players represented GB as a junior and have since gone on to become full internationals. SIH Head of…
The Draft for the 2021 Elite Series took place last night with Great Britain internationals dominating the selections over the course of the evening. The four-team tournament – which is all being held at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham – gets under way next month involving Coventry Blaze, Manchester Storm, Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield…
Great Britain head coach Pete Russell will be in the hot-seat for a Scottish ice hockey webinar this week. Russell will discuss the remarkable past few years for the national side as they went from the third tier to the top flight of world ice hockey. He’ll join Steven Lynch, Barry Carneige and Martyn King…
Great Britain head coach Pete Russell says him and his team will be keeping a very close eye on the 2021 Elite Series. The four-team mini-series – involving Coventry Blaze, Manchester Storm, Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers – will get under way next month. The tournament has the backing of Ice Hockey UK and last…
Former Great Britain netminder Glynne Thomas has passed away at the age of 85 Thomas was one of the country’s finest netminders in the 1960s and 1970s and played for Great Britain in two World Championship tournaments, Pool B in 1961 and Pool C in 1976. He was inducted into the UK ice hockey Hall…
Ice Hockey UK and the GB Programme Board are thrilled to announce a new three-year deal with Bauer Hockey. It means Bauer will continue to supply Great Britain’s national teams – men and women at all levels – with off-ice clothing and equipment. Great Britain Programme Board chairman, David Hand, said: “We have a long-standing…
Euan King as been confirmed as Great Britain’s goaltending coach. The 31-year-old, who works with NIHL side Peterborough Phantoms, represented GB as a junior. He spent much of his domestic playing career with his home-town club Peterborough, but also iced for Basingstoke, Romford, Chelmsford, London and Streatham. King linked up with the national team last…
The schedule for this year’s World Championship in Latvia has been confirmed and Great Britain will start the tournament with a match against second seeds Russia. The 16-team tournament – which is split into two groups of eight – is set to run from 21st May to 6th June 2021 in Riga. There will be…
The IIHF have announced that Latvia will be the sole host for the 2021 World Championship. The decision was made at a council meeting this afternoon and comes on the back of the IIHF moving the tournament away from Belarus because of safety concerns. The 16-team tournament – which is set to run from 21st…
From iihf.com Regular day tickets for the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, will go on sale in the autumn of 2021, when the official game schedule will be completed. Organisers say there will be a “wide price range, with several game and seating categories in use.”. Heikki Hietanen, the…
Former Great Britain coach and player Rick Strachan has retired from the sport. The defenceman made his GB debut in 1995 and went on to win 57 caps and made his final appearance at the 2002 World Championship. He then had a two-year spell as assistant coach before spending two years as head coach between…