The Belfast Giants hope to continue their good Elite League form against Manchester Phoenix when the sides meet at the Odyssey on Tuesday evening.
Belfast beat Manchester 6-3 in the Challenge Cup at the start of the season and then won 4-3 in the league.
Phoenix then recorded a 5-2 win in Belfast but the [...]
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blog： Belfast v Manchester (Tue)
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blog：Vipers pay tribute to former star
Newcastle Vipers have paid tribute to former player Ian Defty after his death at the age of 29.
Defty joined the Vipers as they were becoming a force in British ice hockey and represented the Great Britain side.
In a statement the club said: “Ian, whilst a Newcastle Vipers player, made an excellent contribution to [...] -
blog：Belfast 5-4 Basingstoke (aot)
The Belfast Giants kept their slim Elite League hopes alive by claiming a 5-4 over-time victory over Basingstoke at the Odyssey Arena on Saturday night.
Colin Shields put Belfast ahead before Brent Hughes and Mike Olynyk replied to put Bison ahead.
Shields, Steve Thornton and Shane Johnson struck to put the Giants 4-2 up but [...] -
blog： Steiner wins weightlifting gold
Steiner was in third after lifting 203kg in the snatch but surpassed everyone in his final clean and jerk – 258kg – the last lift of the event.
The German edged out Russia’s Evgeni Chigishev by a kilogram.
World champion Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia took the bronze with total of 448kg, with Ukraine’s Artem Udachyn, [...] -
blog：Shooter Owen aims for London 2012
The 14-year-old from Ludlow is now in the frame for being groomed for the 2012 London Olympics.
“That would be great, but it’s still a long way away,” he told BBC Radio Shropshire.
“Things are going well. I’m doing well in competitions, and my first aim is to make the England squad.”
Proud dad Richard [...]
