Category: Men Seniors

Great Britain have named their squad for the upcoming international matches against Norway in Nottingham and Cardiff.
The two sides will meet at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham on Tuesday 1st November (7:30pm).
They will then go head-to-head again the next evening in Cardiff’s Ice Arena Wales, on Wednesday 2nd November (7:30pm).

Ice Hockey UK chairman Richard Grieveson has taken a number of positives from the partnership approach adopted between the governing body and EIHL in organising and promoting the two forthcoming international games between Great Britain and Pool A nation Norway.

GBSC has secured tickets in block 3 for the Nottingham game and a block (tbc) for the Cardiff game, these are on hold for us until 15h October, if anybody would like to sit in the GB Blocks please can you email us by the 14th October. We believe GBSC will order the tickets and you pay us directly – this is to be confirmed.

Great Britain will play two international games against Norway, along with two games against Poland, as part of their preparations for next year’s World Championship tournament in Belfast.
Norway are ranked 11th in the world and last month qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea.

The full schedule for the World Championship (Division 1B) tournament at the SSE Arena in Belfast has been confirmed.
The tournament, which is the first men’s World Championship to be held in the UK for nearly 25 years, will run from Sunday 23rd to Saturday 29th April 2017.

Great Britain have appointed Corey Neilson as an assistant coach to replace Chuck Weber.