The latest end of season review is here, and it is number seven of nine. It's another Gardiner Conference side, and a team that actually surprised a few at home and away last season. We present to you; the Fife Flyers.
Season in summary: When comparing previous seasons, Fife had a great season. They finished 6th in the overall standings which for a lesser known team, was an amazing campaign. With Shane Owen being a brilliant pick up to tend the goal, 2015-16 league title winner Russ Moyer on the blue line having a season that probably surprised Russ himself and plenty of goals from Ryan Dingle - they did themselves proud on ice in Kirkcaldy last year.
Performance of the Season: Quite a few stand out results for the Flyers but I'm going for one that killed a championship title challenge. Yes it's the 6-3 win in "The Auld Barn" against the Steelers. Flyers really stepped up the plate that night, and as I said it killed off the Steelers title hopes in my eyes. A complete team performance that left the majority of the 1553 attendance going home with huge smiles. But the 9-5 at home to Belfast and a 4-3 overtime win at Nottingham were pretty close in topping it.
Low point of the Season: I'm going to say two losses against the Caps would be the low points. Prior to and post this, Flyers pushed Clan close to the Gardiner Conference all the way and contributed to a good season. Who actually would go on and know exactly what effect those four points might have had. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it Todd?
Player of the Season: Not many knew much about him before the season, but a fair few knew about him at the end though. My Flyers Player of the Season, goaltender Shane Owen. Owen made an astonishing 1754 saves in 52 games; that's a hell of a rubber faced. He also came out of that with a more than creditable 90.90% save. Obviously people have taken note and the 27 year old Canadian will between the pipes of BIK Karlskoga of the All Svenskan league season in 2017-18. Fife will need to find a decent replacement.
Anything else? After much will they, or won't they - Flyers will take part in their 7th EIHL season this year. Todd Dutiaume is still the man behind the bench and he's assisted by former GB internationalist Jeff Hutchins. Whilst recruitment has been slow compared to other teams, Flyers never have been rushed as far as I'm concerned when it comes to this. Much will be expected from single game NHLer (he played for Washington Capitals in the final 2013-14 regular season game) Peter LeBlanc. As regards Owen's replacement, we still don't know...
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Performance of the Season: Quite a few stand out results for the Flyers but I'm going for one that killed a championship title challenge. Yes it's the 6-3 win in "The Auld Barn" against the Steelers. Flyers really stepped up the plate that night, and as I said it killed off the Steelers title hopes in my eyes. A complete team performance that left the majority of the 1553 attendance going home with huge smiles. But the 9-5 at home to Belfast and a 4-3 overtime win at Nottingham were pretty close in topping it.
Low point of the Season: I'm going to say two losses against the Caps would be the low points. Prior to and post this, Flyers pushed Clan close to the Gardiner Conference all the way and contributed to a good season. Who actually would go on and know exactly what effect those four points might have had. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it Todd?
Player of the Season: Not many knew much about him before the season, but a fair few knew about him at the end though. My Flyers Player of the Season, goaltender Shane Owen. Owen made an astonishing 1754 saves in 52 games; that's a hell of a rubber faced. He also came out of that with a more than creditable 90.90% save. Obviously people have taken note and the 27 year old Canadian will between the pipes of BIK Karlskoga of the All Svenskan league season in 2017-18. Fife will need to find a decent replacement.
Anything else? After much will they, or won't they - Flyers will take part in their 7th EIHL season this year. Todd Dutiaume is still the man behind the bench and he's assisted by former GB internationalist Jeff Hutchins. Whilst recruitment has been slow compared to other teams, Flyers never have been rushed as far as I'm concerned when it comes to this. Much will be expected from single game NHLer (he played for Washington Capitals in the final 2013-14 regular season game) Peter LeBlanc. As regards Owen's replacement, we still don't know...
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