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From Braehead to Billingham

This past weekend I made my first ever visit to the Braehead Arena, home of the Clan, to see the home side take on Dundee Stars.

Where are they now: Evan Cheverie

6'1, 31 year old forward Evan Cheverie hails from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. I would describe him as a big flair player who could play either centre or wing.

Where are they now: Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell a 5' 9” left shooting centre from Gloucester, Ontario, Canada played for the Basingstoke Bison during the 2002/2003 season.

Bah! humbug!

Where was the Nottingham Panthers Christmas spirit this festive period? They rocked up to Sheffield on Boxing Day and took all the points out of the Christmas stocking.

Defending the mice

Another game and another week in which we are questioning the officiating in the Elite League. If you didn’t get a chance to watch last Fridays game its worth trying to catch it on SKY.

Thompson has stepped down from his job as head coach of Great Britain. Now the given reason for this is that Thompson believes he can't give the job the attention it deserves with the current situation in Coventry and must focus his energies there

Now is the winter of our discontent

When the world of British ice hockey goes into meltdown, which it is apt to do from time to time, it’s generally during the off-season when to be honest there’s not a lot else happening.

The failure of Newcastle

I have just read a very interesting blog by Ian Braisby on the Cats Whiskers regarding the failure of Ice Hockey in Newcastle and after reading a very well written blog I thought it was important to provide another perspective and view.

Lets get Physical, Physical!

“Hockey is a physical sport” a line used time and time and time again by both its promoters and its detractors. Be it by those defending an action on the ice or by those who feel there just isn’t enough action.

We're battling hard

Well Christmas is fast approaching now and for us up here in Braehead we have a lot of games in December. We have recently been hit by a number of injuries so its been tough to compete but we have battled hard.

Blogs

Belfast	v	Cardiff
4th February 2012 19:00
Braehead	v	Edinburgh
4th February 2012 19:00
Nottingham	v	Dundee
4th February 2012 19:00
Sheffield	v	Hull
4th February 2012 19:00
Coventry	v	Fife
4th February 2012 19:30
Sheffield	v	Belfast
5th February 2012 17:00

Hull	2-8	Coventry
3rd February 2012 19:30
Fife	2-3	Braehead
1st February 2012 19:15
Dundee	1-4	Fife
29th January 2012 18:30
Hull	2-1	Cardiff
29th January 2012 18:00
Coventry	1-6	Nottingham
29th January 2012 18:00
Edinburgh	3-6	Sheffield
29th January 2012 18:00

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
1	Belfast Giants	39	31	8	3	159	80	65
2	Nottingham Panthers	39	29	10	2	176	85	60
3	Sheffield Steelers	33	29	4	0	128	73	58
4	Coventry Blaze	39	24	15	1	147	112	49
5	Cardiff Devils	37	20	17	9	119	103	49
6	Braehead Clan	38	21	17	2	141	123	44
7	Hull Stingrays	40	11	29	4	107	162	26
8	Edinburgh Capitals	38	11	27	3	89	170	25
9	Fife Flyers	37	7	30	5	76	166	19
10	Dundee Stars	38	6	32	5	87	155	17

Bracknell	v	Telford
4th February 2012 18:00
Basingstoke	v	Swindon
4th February 2012 18:30
Slough	v	Guildford
4th February 2012 18:30
Milton Keynes	v	Manchester
4th February 2012 19:00
Sheffield	v	Peterborough
4th February 2012 19:30
Manchester	v	Swindon
5th February 2012 17:30

Basingstoke	5-4	Slough
29th January 2012 18:00
Peterborough	3-2	Bracknell
29th January 2012 17:30
Sheffield	4-2	Swindon
29th January 2012 17:30
Telford	5-4	Guildford
29th January 2012 17:30
Milton Keynes	1-5	Basingstoke
28th January 2012 19:00
Slough	5-2	Peterborough
28th January 2012 18:30

	Club	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
1	Guildford Flames	36	24	12	3	163	105	51
2	Slough Jets	35	23	12	1	160	112	47
3	Manchester Phoenix	37	22	15	3	136	119	47
4	Sheffield Steeldogs	37	21	16	4	116	101	46
5	Milton Keynes Lightning	35	22	13	1	113	92	45
6	Basingstoke Bison	36	20	16	2	130	119	42
7	Swindon Wildcats	37	15	22	5	119	123	35
8	Bracknell Bees	36	12	24	8	106	142	32
9	Peterborough Phantoms	36	13	23	2	115	155	28
10	Telford Tigers	37	9	28	2	100	190	20