Ice Hockey UK has put together a provisional fan travel package for UK ice hockey fans interested in going to Slovakia in May 2019 to support Great Britain at the IIHF World Championship in Kosice. IHUK has appointed Sport Legends Events Limited, who alongside its bonded sports tour operator partner (inc. ABTA, IATA and ATOL),…
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Only a handful of seats remain for Great Britain’s game against KHL side Dinamo Riga in February. The encounter at the Skydome in Coventry takes place on Wednesday 6th February 2019 at 7:30pm. It’s the first of five games for GB ahead of May’s top-level World Championship in Slovakia. Despite the limited seating available, supporters are advised…
All five of Great Britain Under-20s’ games at next month’s IIHF U20 World Championship Division II Group A in Tallinn will be shown on FreeSports. Slava Koulikov’s side face hosts Estonia, along with Korea, Lithuania, Romania and Spain, from 13th to 19th January 2019 at the Tondiraba Ice Hall. GB start the six-team tournament against…
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS There is already huge interest in Great Britain’s game against KHL side Dinamo Riga in February. Tickets went on sale yesterday (Monday) and demand has been very high for the mouth-watering encounter. The first of five World Championship warm-up games for GB will take place at Coventry’s Skydome on Wednesday 6th…
Great Britain Under-18 Women have named their squad for next month’s U18 Women’s World Championship Division I Group B in Dumfries. The six-team IIHF tournament runs from 6th to 12th January 2019 at Dumfries Ice Bowl and GB will host China, France, Poland, Netherlands and Norway. GB’s first game is on Sunday 6th January against…
Great Britain players Ben O’Connor, Robert Dowd and Jonathan Phillips will all be having their heads shaved in aid of the charity Prevent Breast Cancer. The trio will be joined by Sheffield team-mates Aaron Johnson and Tanner Eberle, along with David Simms, at the special event after the Steelers game with Guildford on Saturday 22nd…
Earlier today, GB U18 Women named their final squad for next month’s World Championship in Dumfries. IHUK Radio, in association with McDonald’s, was present at the final trial where GB played a Northern Conference U15 boys team, and we spoke with netminding coach Dave Clancy and assistant coach Darryl Morvan. Click below to listen to…
Great Britain Women will take part in the 2018 Winter Classic in Sheffield. The tournament features EIHA Conference teams at U11, U13 and U15 age groups. The events will take place at Ice Sheffield from 28th to 30th December. JLMC event organiser, Gordon Douglas, said: “We are pleased to finally get the details confirmed. Ice time has…
Head coach Pete Russell says Great Britain’s five international challenge games in the UK next year will be excellent preparation for the World Championship in Slovakia. Next May, GB will make their first return to ice hockey’s elite level since 1994 and their training camp will include five top-class international games. Britain will play KHL…
Great Britain Under-18 Women were beaten 5-0 by Northern Conference Under-15s at the Bauer Arena in Ice Sheffield on Friday night. Ben Greenhalgh, Finn Bradon, Damarni James, Logan Jean-Jacques and Alex Kent were on target for the Northern Conference. The game was part of GB’s preparations for January’s IIHF U18 Word Championship Division I Group B…
Great Britain will play five mouth-watering international challenge matches in the UK as part of preparations for the World Championship in Slovakia next year. Pete Russell’s side will be involved in a triangular tournament with Hungary and Italy in April followed by two games against KHL side Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, while Dinamo Riga will visit…