This weekend’s Ice Hockey UK U20 National Finals at the Dumfries Ice Bowl will be live on NIHL Radio. The games will see Fife Falcons U20s play Billingham Stars U20s in a 2:30pm face-off, followed by Sheffield Scimitars U20s vesus Solway Sharks U20s at 7pm. On Sunday, the two winning sides will contest the final…
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Tom Parkinson’s winner with six-and-a-half minutes remaining saw Sheffield Scimitars beat Solway Sharks 7-6 to book their place in the IHUK U20s National Final at Dumfries Ice Bowl. Solway’s Scott Henderson scored a hat-trick but it was the English champions who will now go on and face Fife Falcons in tomorrow’s final. Sheffield raced into…
ICE HOCKEY UK UNDER-20 NATIONAL FINALS SATURDAY 7TH MAY 2016 SEMI-FINAL – FIFE FALCONS v BILLINGHAM STARS (2:30PM) The inaugural Ice Hockey UK Under-20 National Finals gets under way with Fife Falcons playing Billingham Stars in the day’s first game at the Dumfries Ice Bowl (2:30pm). The Falcons qualified as the Scottish champions, winning 12…
ICE HOCKEY UK UNDER-20 NATIONAL FINALS SATURDAY 7TH MAY 2016 SEMI-FINAL – SHEFFIELD SCIMITARS v SOLWAY SHARKS (7pm) The second semi-final at IHUK’s U20s National Finals weekend sees Sheffield Scimitars and Solway Sharks go head-to-head. Sheffield won the EIHA U20 Midlands division with 17 wins and one draw, scoring 214 goals in the process. Solway were…
Bob Wilkinson was presented with a special signed Great Britain shirt at the Conference tournament in Sheffield last weekend. The shirt was signed by the members of the IIHF Council. Bob recently became the first person to appointed as an honorary board member of Ice Hockey UK. He has been involved in ice hockey in the UK for…
The countdown is on for the inaugural Ice Hockey UK Under-20 National Finals, which takes place at Dumfries Ice Bowl this weekend. The top two teams from Scotland and England will do battle in the semi-finals on Saturday 7th May, with the Grand Final the following day. An U11 Scotland East v West clash serves as…
The following players have been selected for the 2016-17 national team training camps to trial for the Great Britain Under-18s and Great Britain Under-16s squads. These players will now have a trial in the coming months with a view to selection for next season’s World Championship tournament for GB U18s and future international tournaments for…
Elite League team Sheffield Steelers have been drawn in Group P of the 2016-17 Champions Hockey League with Salzburg (Austria) and HC71 Jönköping (Sweden). A total of 48 teams from 13 leagues will compete in 16 groups of three in the CHL group stage. The draw was made this morning in Zurich. The full groups are listed…
Ice Hockey UK chairman Richard Grieveson has been discussing the federation’s blueprint for the future. The IHUK board met for a meeting this week and a number of subjects were discussed. The board have agreed to appoint a salaried technical director to oversee the GB programme, in line with many other countries. Grieveson told IHUK…
The biggest festival of junior ice hockey in the UK starts tonight in Sheffield as the 22nd EIHA Junior Inter Conference Tournament begins with the now traditional England-Scotland U19 international. Ice Sheffield is hosting 45 games across the weekend with almost 450 players plus hundreds more officials and supporters travelling from all corners of the…
Following Japan’s relegation from Division 1A of the World Championship, Great Britain now know the five teams they will face at next year’s Division 1B tournament. As well as facing Japan, GB will once again come up against Lithuania, Croatia and Estonia – and are joined by Netherlands who were promoted from Division 2A at…