Sheffield Winter Classic This Coming Saturday!

Sheffield Winter Classic: Spartans v Senators

Next Saturday, 27^th December will see the inaugural Sheffield Winter Classic Game between Spartans & Senators take place at Ice Sheffield, facing off at 4.15pm. It promises to be a great occasion in this festive and family orientated time of year, where we can celebrate Sheffield’s vibrant amateur hockey scene with friends past and present, as well as making new friends too in the process.

The Sheffield Ice Hockey Academy has continued to grow and develop from its humble beginnings in 1991; we are now one of the premier set-ups in the country.  This game is all about celebrating the Sheffield Ice Hockey Academy by showcasing our finest senior talents alongside the next generation of Spartans and Senators. As part of this celebration our current U14’s teams, the Stormers & Sabres will take part in an exhibition game which will face off at 3.30pm.

The day of the Sheffield Winter Classic is a day the academy are proud to hold such a fixture and show its self off in the best possible way. This may be a history making day as the club holds it’s first Winter Classic but there is more history to be made by the juniors who are to follow the senior players of today as it will be those young players who will be taking to the ice in future Winter Classic games.

Ticket Prices

£5 – Adult

£2 – Concession

£10 – Family ticket (2 Adults & up to 3 children)

This represents terrific value for money for a family fun filled afternoon of ice hockey and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Saturday.

Sheffield Winter Classic - 2014

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The Walkeden Review: My All-Star Weekend 2014

My first All-Stars weekend is over! Well, my first one I've played in and hope to be in Cardiff next year for the 2015 All-Stars!

UK Forum All-Stars 2014! What You Might Not Know!

The UK Forum All-Stars is a yearly event that takes place around the last weekend of July raising as much money as possible for charity!

It doesn’t matter if you play every week or if your lacing the boots up for the first time the whole point is together raise as much money as possible and you leave the event with lifelong friends.

Each team has people that can hardly skate but just want to get involved it really is an amazing weekend to be a part off.

CC Final - The Right Choice!!

Better late than never I suppose its about time the challenge cup final became a one game affair! as its been a two legged final for awhile now and basically since it became two legged Sheffield haven't won it! So on our behalf maybe its an even better thing.

But seriously though now if you look at any other sports with two legged round you will find that the final of that competition is nearly always just the one game because of the top of my head I cant think of any two legged finals in other sports at the moment.

So as of the 2014/2015 season the challenge cup format will continue as a the two group stages with Belfast, Braehead, Dundee, Edinburgh and Fife in Group A and Cardiff, Coventry, Hull, Nottingham and Sheffield in Group B that will see the top four from both groups qualify for the quarter finals which will be a two legged round with each team playing one game home and one game away and the winners of them games will go onto the semi-final which is also going to be a two legged round the same as the previous round and then for next season and I'm guessing for the seasons after as well the final is going to be held at Sheffield's Motorpoint Arena no matter who is in the final it will be played their and next season the final is set of Sunday 8th March with no other games being scheduled for that day so all focus can be on the final and in my opinion that's how it should be because not only will it allow the league to put money else where but it will also allow the league to make a big fuss about the cup final.

I was looking on social media earlier today (28th March the day of the announcement) and noticed several fans including Nottingham fans moaning about Sheffield hosting the final who thinks it should be permanently in Nottingham but at the end of the day they host the entire playoff finals weekend and I think just that there settles the argument itself!

So come on then guys what is every ones views? get in touch with me and I'll publish the best ones!!

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