Devils complete their roster

A couple of moths ago, most teams had quite a few players and rosters were looking strong, but Cardiff Devils only had two players at this point. Then, a big turn around saw them sign ten players in one day! After this, they were signing new players fast, building a very strong contender for the 2014/15 season! Today, they completed their roster with the signing of Canadien forward, Joey Martin. His stats: http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=38518 This is one dangerous roster, and I think this is a team to watch out for!

Cardiff Devils full roster 2014/15

 

Head coach: Todd Kelman/ Neil Francis
Netminder: Ben Bowns 33, Mike Will 3
Defencemen: Carl Hudson 2, Mark Richardson 17, Tyson Marsh 22, Andrew Hotham 24, Josh Batch 41, Treor Hendrix 74
Forwards: Matthew Myers 8,Joey Martin 10, Chris Jones 16, Brent Walton 18, Luke Piggot 21, Joey Haddad 27, Jake Morissette 47, Chris Culligun 57, Andrew Lord 71, Jesse Mychan 80, Doug Clarkson 93

Fear the beard! Matt Nickerson returns to Fife

Possibly the leagues toughest enforcer, Matt Nickerson, has re-signed for the Fife Flyers for the 2014-15 season! He's an entertaining guy to watch drop the gloves and has had famous fights last season with players such as Chris Frank (Braehead Clan), Tim Spencer (Sheffield Steelers), Tuuka Makela (Nottingham Panthers) and many more! All these fights led to a huge 301 penalty minutes! He is a great guy who stands for his teammates and even shaved his beard off for charity. Respect!

The rosters so far, 24 days to go....

With just 24 days to go, the teams are almost complete! Here are lists, from the team sites, of the 2014-15 Elite league teams!

 

*= Player coach

#= Jersey number not yet confirmed

 

Belfast Giants

Head coach: Steve Thorton
Netminder: Stephen Murphy 31

Defencemen: Jeff Mason 3, Robby Sandrock 6, David Phillips 13, Calvin Elfring 24, Cody Brookwell 25, Kevin Phillips 62, 

Forwards: Mark Garside 7, Evan Cheverie 9, Colin Sheilds 19, Kevin Suarette 22, Adam Keefe 47, Craig Peacock 71, Daryl Lloyd 72

                                                 Braehead Clan

Head coach: Ryan Finnerty

Netminder: Kyle Jones 29, Joe Myers 15

Defencemen: Zack Fitzgerald 13, Zach Sullivan 21, Chris Frank 22, Scott Aarssen 6,

Forwards: Matt Haywood 11, Lee Esders 17, Neil Trimm 19, Leigh Salters 24, Tristian Harper 26, Ben Davies 5

                                                   Coventry Blaze

Head coach: Marc Lefebvre
Netminder: Brian Stewart 41, Connor Ranby 31
Defencemen: Mark Smith 5, Mike Egner 6, Rory Rawlyk 8, James Griffin 15, Kyle Bocheck 16, Steven Chalmers 28, Craig Cescon 32
Forwards: Ben Arnt 7, Cale Tanaka 14, Russel Cowley 27, Steven Goertzen 18, Ashley Tait 21,
Ryan O'mara 22, Derek Lee 23, Jeremy Tendler 27, Ross Venus 59

                      Cardiff Devils

Head coach: Todd Kelman
Netminder: Ben Bowns 33, Mike Will 3
Defencemen: Carl Hudson 2, Mark Richardson 17, Tyson Marsh 22, Andrew Hotham 24, Josh Batch 41, Treor Hendrix 74
Forwards: Matthew Myers 8, Chris Jones 16, Brent Walton 18, Luke Piggot 21, Joey Haddad 27, Jake Morissette 47, Chris Culligun 57, Andrew Lord 71, Jesse Mychan 80, Doug Clarkson 93

                   Dundee Stars

Head coach: *Jeff Hutchins
Netminder: Marc Cheverie 39, Craig Holland 31
Defencemen: Sam McCluskey 19, Brad Plumton 20, Paul Swindelehurst 23, Kevin Quick 27,
Forwards: Shane Lust 10, Chris Blight 12, Jade Galbraith 13, John Dolan 16, *Jeff Hutchins 71, Bari McKenzie 86

              Edinburgh Capitals

Unfortunately, we don't have enough sources to give you the full roster but here's all I could find:
Head coach: *Richard Hartmann
Netminder: Tomas Hiladvlosky 53
Defencemen: Marcel Petran #, James Wallace #
Forwards: Rene Jarolin 35, Greg Collins #, Daniel Naslund #, Jade Portwood 36, Dennis Rix #

                      Fife Flyers

Head coach: Todd Dutiaume
Netminder: Kevin Regan 32, Blair Daly 29
Defencemen: Thomas Muir 2, Chris Wands 4, Kyle Horne 5, Kyle Haines 55
Forwards: Ned Lukacevic 8, Stephen Gunn 10, Josh Scoon 15, Allan Anderson 18, Bobby Chaumont 21, Matt Reber 22, Jordan Fulton 26, *Danny Stewart 39, Chris Auger #

                        Hull Stingrays

Like with the capitals, I don't have enough sources but here's all I could find!
Head coach: *Omar Pacha
Netminder: David Brown #
Defencemen: Omar Pacha 2, Scott Robson 11, Tom Ralf 14, Jamie Chilcot 15, C.J Chartrain #, Yan Turcotte #,
Forwards: Cory Tanaka #, Matt Larke #,  Jordan Mayer #, Dominic Osman 9,  Eric Galbraith #, Sam Towner 16, *Carl Lauzon 19, Matthew Davies 26, Zach Hervato #

                                         Nottingham Panthers

Head coach: Corey Neilson
Netminder: Craig Kowalski 33/ Dan Green 34
Defencemen: Steve Lee 45, Evan Mosey #, Steve Ward #, Sam Oakford #, Charles Landry #, Bryan Schmidt #, Cody Wild #, Mike Berbube #,
Forwards: David Clarke 5, Robert Lachowicz 7,Robert Farmer 19,  Chris Higgins #, Brandon Benedict 26, Greg Jacina 41, Max Parent #, Bruce Graham 21,Chris Lawrence #, Jonathan Boxill 89

                                          Sheffield Steelers

Head coach: Gerad Adams
Netminder: Frank Doyle
Defencemen: Gord Baldwin 3, Rod Sarich 19, Dustin Kohn 22, Mark Thomas 44
Forwards: Tyler Mosienko #, Mathieu Roy #, Michael Forney 14, Jason Hewitt 17, Jay Latulippe 18, Jonathan Phillips 20, Phil Hill 24, Luke Ferrara 29, Pascal Morency 55, Robert Dowd 75

 Let us know in the comments what you think to these rosters. Coventry Blaze and Dundee Stars look strong in my opinion. We will update you on every signing from now on. Just 24 days until Nottingham Panthers start the champions league against Lukko! See you soon! :)

                                             

                                            

                                                    

Another rebuild update

Again sorry for lack of updates. Our rebuild is close to done! We will be back on track soon! 

Some special news

Hi everyone, Hockey season is almost here! And some good news regarding this site too! EIHL fans nation, has teamed up with a hockey edits site for EIHL/NHL, http://icehockeyedits.weebly.com/ They do fantastic

edited pictures, be sure to like them on facebook! We will add there pictures to our posts throughout the season! Thanks to them for this fantastic opportunity! 

Also, there is only 32 days until the season starts with Nottingham Panthers playing in the CHL! The excitement is building, here's for a great season! 

EIHL fixtures released! Hockey is coming home!!!!!!

The beginning...The first of the Elite league fixtures via eliteleague.co.uk

 

 

Since hockey season ended, the excitement of the action has been missed by us all. The journeys we went on with our teams, are now long gone and as we get on with our lives, we miss the drama that happens in hockey. A community, a family, a place where dreams come true and hearts are broken. It's more than a passion, it's part of our lives!

  Missing it? Well today, the schedule for the new season was released which means one thing: Hockey IS coming back!! The schedule for the new season is better than ever with many competitive games and the enjoyable, magical game of hockey will return and this special game we love will return and we can be re-united with the hockey family for the 2014-15 season.

  As usual the 10 teams will compete in the 52 game season starting September 5th when Belfast Giants start their league defence in Dundee with the Stars kick start their Gardiner conference defence. Stars and Giants will surely be a stunning start to the season as these two teams get the honour of bringing the EIHL back! Playoff weekend is 4th/5th April when it all climaxes!

  Saturday night, the season gets straight back into full swing when Giants take to the ice again in the cup with Braehead Clan when the purple army return. Sheffield Steelers start their huge playoff defence against the Stars when they raise their proud championship banner! Cardiff Devils will host Hull Stingrays too not forgetting Fife Flyers vs Coventry Blaze!

The seasons sure to be a mega experience once again, we hope you'll enjoy it! Nottingham Panthers will start their EIHL campaign a week later due to Champions hockey league(CHL) action! They also have a few home games on 22nd August/24th August 2014. Good luck Panthers and also Belfast Giants (Continental cup) who will do us proud in Europe this season! To find your teams pre-season schedule, please visit team sites! Here we go then, hockey is back! See you soon! :-)

Note: The rebuild of our site is almost over. By the weekend, all should be complete. Thanks for your patience! Sorry for any inconvenience.
 

Sorry for lack of updates

Sorry we haven't been posting lately as we are working on the site but all will be back to normal on Tuesday when the EIHL schedule is released and we start our countdown to the ice hockey season!  😃

See you later! Enjoy the rest of the football World Cup too! Come on Argentina!! 

Some new features on our site for the new EIHL season

Hi Hockey fans! We apologise for lack of posts as we've not had much time as of late, but hope to be back on track soon. Step three of the updates to our site is telling you the new features on our site this season. Last season, the blog was poor, and we apologise for that. In  season 2014/15, we are aiming for a more exiting EIHLFN!

What will be happening? (From September)

 Sunday/Monday: Weekend match reports (A round up of all the weekends EIHL action)

Tuesday: Fans story (More later in this post)

Wednesday: Reviewed by you (We look at a certain topic and discuss it, We post these most days, but there will be an extended Reviewed by you on Tuesdays) Also, 'be inspired', more below

Thursday: Throwback Thursday (We look at some historic moments in ice hockey history)

Friday: Highlight round up (Video highlights from all the weeks games via EIHL team sites and videos of  some amazing plays etc and hockey funnies) Also, some fun hockey articles and possibly a preview for upcoming games

Saturday night (A short round up of Saturdays matches)

These posts will happen on them days, but signing news will come as soon as possible and we will post fun articles of things going off in hockey around the country/world and news/hockey talk from a range of different things pretty much every day! Whether you play and/or watch hockey, there will be something for you!

New features

Sandwiched in between the normal schedule, is some new features for ice hockey lovers to enjoy! Most days, we will post stuff about hockey talk and interesting topics our favourite sport! Sometimes about watching, playing much more! It will literally be a place where you can read about all things hockey! 

So, what are the new features? Heres a few:

Fans story

This is where you get to send in some of your best ice hockey experiences. Send your story to letsgopanthers68@yahoo.co.uk  and pictures as well, if possible and we'll post them on the blog every Tuesday!

Be inspired

Love watching ice hockey? Why not play it? On Wednesdays, we will give you reasons of why you should get involved in playing ice hockey, or even street hockey. No matter what age, gender or ability you are, it's a really fun thing to do as a hobbie. Become one of the on ice heroes and have the time of your life playing hockey!

Highlight round up

On Fridays, we will post video highlights of as many EIHL games from the week as we can so you can sit back and enjoy. We may be setting up a Youtube and putting all the games as playlists so you can watch all of them at one click of a button, and afterwards we will look at the best plays from the videos (top 5). Also, we will find any other hockey related videos including funnies and NHL.  

Throwback Thursday

Every Thursday, we will look back on historic ice hockey moments from the past. This can be a range of things from any time, and any league. 

What about off season?

During off-season, we will post the best moments from 2014-15 season along with team previews, and much more to get you in the mood for the return of hockey!

We will have more soon on new features for the site, see you soon!