After a successful pre-season with 3 out of 4 wins the Sherfield School Basingstoke Bison took to home ice to start the 2016/17 season and the defence of the English Premier Ice Hockey League. Their opponents were the Telford Tigers, who didn’t complete a win against the Bison last season […]
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Following a successful weekend in pre-season the “friendlies” came to an end with the Swindon Wildcats visiting the Basingstoke Arena. Saturday’s mist issues were consigned to history and the view was crystal clear! Basingstoke welcomed new signing Jakub Barton who made his debut and gave a start to Dan Weller-Evans […]
With the highs of 2015/16 still fresh in the memories of hockey fans the 2016/17 pre-season had started on Wednesday at Swindon before the home ice return for the Basingstoke Bison saw them take on local rivals Guildford Flames. The Bison won the league in 2015/16, the best team over […]
Yesterday the EIHA announced that it had been voted through that the EPIHL will allow teams to dress 5 non EIHA trained players in every game, an increase of 1 from previous seasons. Reaction has been mixed but I think it’s a great idea. It ups the standard of the […]
Following interest on-line when I tweeted that the final Bison programme article of the season touched on the possibility of 5 imports in the EPL here’s the article from the final episode of Stampede from the 15/16 season. What excellent nights the last two Sunday’s have been. First the high […]
For one final time in the 2015/16 season the Basingstoke Arena played host to English Premier Ice Hockey but this was different, this was play-off hockey. A place at Coventry was on the line, one team extending their season and one ending it. A trip to Deeside the previous evening […]
A capacity crowd filled the Basingstoke Arena for party night as the Paul Baldwin Agencies Basingstoke Bison were to have the 2015/16 English Premier Ice Hockey League Champions presentations but first the matter of the final game of the season between the 1st and 3rd placed teams. Bison were missing […]
Since I announced on Twitter last week what the topic of my column in the Basingstoke Bison for Sunday just gone (which shall from now on be known as League Winning Day) I have been asked to share the write up for those that weren’t at the game and therefore […]
The Basingstoke Arena filled to capacity to roar on the Paul Baldwin Agencies Basingstoke Bison for their Sunday night home game against the Swindon Wildcats. With a win the previous evening in Telford having extinguished Flames outside hopes of winning the league all that stood between the Bison and the […]
With just another single game weekend the Paul Baldwin Agencies Basingstoke Bison played host at the Basingstoke Arena to the travelling Hull Pirates. The home team reduced their injury list as both Alan Lack and Grant Rounding returned leaving just Alex Symonds out injured. After playing last weekend Tomas Hiadlovsky […]