The Telford Tigers are a National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) ice hockey team that formed in 1985. It wasn't to last, as Director Roy Williams resigned before Telford Tigers Ice Hockey plc went bankrupt, eventually being wound up in the High Court in Spring 1999 owing money to both Lawless and his players.
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Telford Tigers is one club with two teams who play in the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL); Tigers 1 play in the National League and Tigers 2 play in the Laidler Conference. This includes cookies from third party social media websites. [15][16], After two seasons of building from the ground up Telford would have one of the best seasons in their history. [17]
Marc Lovell joined from the Edinburgh Capitals, Juraj Huska and goalie Peter Betinec moved from Slovakian teams (although the latter was released midway through the season to be replaced by Milan Kostolny), and Dumas' former Coventry teammate Matthias Soderstrom (Swedish) joined from the Italian Serie B. Daniel Mackriel moved to Slough Jets midway through the season. Telford Tigers scores service is real-time, updating live. Concession (NUS, OAP) £9
Telford Tigers are based at Telford Ice Rink, in Shropshire. [8], In October 2013, the BBC reported that the CEO of Red Touch Media, Wayne Scholes had dissolved the 'Fans Trust' and taken over the team under a new company called Red Hockey Ltd.[9] Scholes was the stick-boy for the team during the mid-1980s.[10].
Under "JL", Telford finished as runners up in the British National League and lifted the Upper Deck Christmas Cup in 1997 with a 10–7 aggregate victory over Guildford Flames. By now, the junior programme was starting to pay dividends, with local youngsters Geoff Lane,Darren Broome, Norman Pinnington and Mark Hazlehurst all pulling on Tigers jerseys in the mid 1980s and early 1990s. Adult (18 and over) £13 MK won the game by 2 goals to 0. In the offseason, a new division of the NIHL was created above NIHL 1 North and 1 South called the National League. Telford Tigers 1; Telford Tigers 2; Coaching Staff; Fixtures & Results. We can confirm Telford Tigers 1 will play Swindon Wildcats home and away in the Semi Final of the NIHL National Cup with the away leg on the 14th Feb in Swindon at the Link Centre, 7:30pm face off with the second leg fixture on the following Tuesday, the 20th February at Telford Ice Rink, face off at 19:35.
The return game the following night saw marked improvements from the Tigers as the new team started to gel. To make matters worse, Solihull dropped down to the ENL at the end of the season, thus eliminating the West Midlands Derby from the fixture list.
However, you can change your cookie settings at any time. Again both teams are assembling squads of very talented players from around the world for the 2019/2020 season and both teams are expecting to be once again fighting it out at the top of their respective leagues for silverware and honours. Over the last 30+ years, the Telford Tigers have developed a reputation for hard-fought, but fair, matches against some of the biggest names in British ice hockey.
All content is the property of Telford Tigers © 2017-2020, Images reproduced with kind permission from Steve Brodie & Lauren Rankin ©2017-2020, EIHA Update: ‘Elite’ level of sport expanded, multiple bubbles of six now permitted on the ice The Government has issued new Covid-19 guidance for indoor sport in England and the EIHA have been working with Department for Digitial, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to ensure that our Return To Play guidance is in line with…, EIHA Update: ‘Elite’ level of sport expanded. Also confirmed are the rearranged Tigers 2 games. Telford Tigers IH Club Ltd. was formed for season 1985–86 by Central TV commentator Gary Newbon with entertainer David Ismay as chairman and Canadian defenceman Chuck Taylor as player coach. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies.
Telford Tigers would go on to come 3rd in the NIHL North 1 conference, a semi-final loss in the NIHL National Cup and lost all games in the NIHL Autumn Cup. Telford Tigers 1; Telford Tigers 2; Coaching Staff; Fixtures & Results. He had previously played for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers. After the financial problems of the season before this meant that Tigers started from a weakened financial position which leads to a smaller Roster and the Coach icing for part of the season, he played 15 games scoring 5 goals.
The Place TelfordLimes Walk Oakengates Telford TF2 6EP, Box Office: 01952 382 382 e-mail: theplace@telford.gov.uk. After the Telford Ice Rink opened in October 1984, several challenge games involving Altrincham Aces, Blackpool Seagulls, Nottingham Panthers and Solihull Barons were staged to see if a Telford team would be sustainable.
The first game with MK was away, and resulted in an 8–2 defeat. Legendary rock’n’roll star Francis Rossi had just started his 50-date spoken word tour when Covid-19 hit in March.