Deeside Dragons

Deeside Dragons are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the National Ice Hockey League, north division.[1] They play their games at Deeside Leisure Centre, Flintshire, and replaced the previous team Flintshire Freeze. They won the North League championship in the 2015/16 season, with a record of 24-3-1[2] as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs.[3]

Deeside Dragons
CityQueensferry
LeagueENIHL
DivisionNorth 2
Founded2012
Operated2012 - present
Home arenaDeeside Leisure Centre
ColorsRed & Green    
CaptainJames Parsons
Websitedragonsicehockey.com
Championships
Conference Championships1 (2015/16)
Playoff championships1 (2015/16)

In July 2015 it was reported that the Dragons had been bought by Red Hockey Limited,[4] a British Company who own the Telford Tigers English Premier League Ice Hockey team as well as having stakes in Manchester Phoenix and Bracknell Bees.

In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and Flintshire County Council[2] which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents Widnes Wild walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game.[5] Dragons player Alex Roberts received a three-game ban as a result of this incident.

In July 2016 it was announced that Scott McKenzie had left the Widnes Wild to join the Dragons as player-coach.[6] He left the following year.

At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.

Season-by-season record
Season Position Wins Draws Losses ±
2012-13 2 17 1 6 88
2013-14 2 18 2 8 61
2014-15 5 15 2 17 31
2015-16 1 24 3 1 132
2017-18 (NIHL1) 10 2 0 32 -347
2018-19 7 9 2 21 -43
2019-20 6 12 0 15 2

Club roster 2020–21
Netminders
No. Nat. Player Catches Date of birth Place of birth Acquired Contract
Defencemen
No. Nat. Player Shoots Date of birth Place of birth Acquired Contract
Forwards
No. Nat. Player Shoots Date of birth Place of birth Acquired Contract

2020/21 Outgoing
Outgoing
No. Nat. Player Shoots Date of birth Place of birth Leaving For
Radim Reznicek L (1995-10-06) 6 October 1995 Czech Republic HC Stadion Cheb


References
  1. "Deeside Dragons at eliteprospects.com". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. Powell, Dave (17 February 2016). "Deeside Dragons crowned Laidler Conference champions". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-04-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Porter, Gary (4 April 2016). "Watch Deeside ice hockey bust up that left player with head injury and saw one team walk off". Dailypost.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  6. Powell, Dave (14 July 2016). "Deeside Dragons appoint Scott McKenzie as new player/head coach". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
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