The Champions Hockey League returned to the UK as Cardiff Devils were beaten 5-0 by Adler Mannheim of Germany in Wales. Covid-19 protocols saw the Devils without British players Ben Davies and Josh Batch, as well as head coach Jarrod Skalde and assistant coach Neil Francis. Jordan Szwarz, Joonas Lehtivuori and Moritz Wirth gave the…
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Great Britain Women have named their team for October’s Olympic Qualifiers in Korea. There are five new faces in the GB squad with first full call-ups for netminder Ella Howard, Ellie Wakeling on defence and forwards Charlotte Harris, Chamonix Jackson and Isabell Whiteley. The Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 2 takes place in Gangneung from Thursday 7th…
Great Britain Women stepped up their preparations for October’s Olympic Qualifiers with a training camp in Nottingham on Saturday, followed by a game against an Under-21 Select side from Coventry Blaze’s NIHL and academy sides on Sunday. GB twice came from behind in a 2-2 tie with goals from Isabell Whiteley and Abbie Sylvester. Netminders…
Tickets for next year’s World Championship in Finland are now available through Great Britain Supporters Club (GBSC). GB are in Group B – which is being held in the 13,500-seater Tampere Deck Arena – and they will face Belarus, Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and the USA. Britain’s group games take place between 14th…
The schedule for the 2022 World Championship in Finland – which is being held between 13th and 29th May 2022 – has been unveiled. GB will be playing in the top flight for the third successive season after appearing in the 2019 edition in Slovakia and this year in Latvia. Pete Russell’s side are in…
Great Britain head coach Pete Russell will be joined by GB coaches and players for this month’s English Ice Hockey Association’s (EIHA) Coaching Symposium. Russell will lead this special online event on 21st August while GB Goaltending Coach Euan King and GB Under-20s head coach Martin Grubb will be in attendance too. GB players Jonathan…
Great Britain Under-20s Head Coach Martin Grubb has confirmed the players who will go forward to trial for this season’s World Championship squad. A total of 44 players attended the identification camps in Sheffield and Dundee – and the first selection camp will take place later this month. There will be further camps in September…
Its been confirmed that Great Britain Women will be joined by Iceland for October’s Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 2 in Gangneung in October. Slovenia and hosts Korea are GB’s other opponents for the four-team tournament from Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th October 2021. The round 1 tournament in Reykjavik – involving Iceland, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and…
Great Britain Under-18s Head Coach Sean Easton has confirmed the players who will go forward to trial for this season’s World Championship squad. Over 55 players attended identification camps in Sheffield in June and Dundee in July and the selection camp will take place in Ice Sheffield on 18th August. The under-18s will travel to…
As part of his lead role in the English Ice Hockey Association’s (EIHA) Coach and Education Programme, Great Britain Head Coach Pete Russell has started the process of selecting coaching staff. The EIHA announced earlier this month that Russell would take up the new role to “help shift the EIHA towards an athlete-centred development programme by…