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Belfast Giants


Arena: Odyssey Arena

Head coach: Steve Thornton
General manager: Todd Kelman
Captain: Colin Shields
Owners: Jim Gillespie & Tom and Donna Mallon

Address: Belfast Giants 2008 Ltd10 Heron Road, Unit 3, Suite CSydenham Business ParkBelfast, BT3 9LE,Northern Ireland

Phone: +44 (0) 28 9046 0044
Email: office@belfastgiants.com
Website: http://www.belfastgiants.com/

Last season's position: 4th in the Elite League

Arena profile:
The Odyssey is a large sports and entertainment centre situated on Queen's Island, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The area is now known as the Titanic Quarter. It was jointly funded by the Millennium Commission (49%), the Laganside Corporation (11%), the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (18.5%), the Sheridan Group (18.5%) and the Sports Council for Northern Ireland (3.3%).

Club history:
The Belfast Giants are an ice hockey team from Belfast, Northern Ireland that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Home games are played at the 7,100-capacity Odyssey Arena in Belfast.Currently the Belfast Giants are sponsored by LBM and are known as 'The LBM Belfast Giants'. The previous major sponsor was Coors Fine Light Beer who sponsored the Belfast Giants in their four seasons.


CLUB NEWS

LBM Belfast Giants coach, Steve Thornton has labelled this weekend as the most important of the Elite League season so far as he sees his side face off against their rivals for the Elite League title.
Last Friday night saw the LBM Belfast Giants take on the Nottingham Panthers in the first of the weekend’s two games at the Odyssey Arena.
Last Saturday night saw the LBM Belfast Giants take on the Nottingham Panthers in the second game of the double header. The Giants again played without Steve Thornton and Brandon Benedict.
Last Sunday night, the LBM Belfast Giants took on the Newcastle Vipers at the Odyssey Arena. The Vipers travelled with only 9 men, two of which were goaltenders.
The race is on… That’s the message that is coming from the LBM Belfast Giants this week as the race for the Elite League title begins to heat up.

CLUB STATS

Nr Name G A Pts PP G SH G Pen.
23 Sean McMorrow 0 0 0 0 0
20 Mark Morrison 0 0 0 0 0
19 Colin Shields 0 0 0 0 0
26 Brandon Benedict 0 0 0 0 0
32 Robbie Brown 0 0 0 0 0
72 Pierre Luc-Faubert 0 0 0 0 0
71 Craig Peacock 0 0 0 0 0
41 George Awada 0 0 0 0 0
16 Steve Thornton 0 0 0 0 0
15 Pat Bateman 0 0 0 0 0

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