Basingstoke welcomed Sheffield back to the Bison arena for the second time in a fortnight. On the previous occasion it had been a 6-1 whooping however since then Bison had added more to their injury list. Tomas Karpov sat out as did Aaron Connolly with the two having picked up […]
Ice Hockey
Last weekend I did something that was out of character, I decided to stay home and not go to hockey. I can’t do Sunday Bison home games as the face-off is too early but prior to last weekend I’d missed just one Saturday so it was nice to get back […]
Saturday night and another trip to Hampshire for hockey. One noticeable thing was despite still being January the M4 wasn’t in complete darkness when leaving Slough at 5pm. An uneventful journey saw arrival at the arena in time to watch the majority of the warm up. From the warm up […]
The Basingstoke Bison lined up to take on the Manchester Phoenix, even with the warm up coming to an end it was notable that the rink was filling well. By the time the puck dropped the stands were still filling, people were still coming in and a great night of […]
It was a smoother than usual journey down to the Spectrum for a Sunday evening face-off. The M4 – M25 combo can be tricky heading out of Slough at 5pm on a Sunday but thankfully last night all the traffic was behaving well. Basingstoke had, the previous night, played out […]
The Basingstoke Bison played host to the Peterborough Phantoms for the final time in the regular season with the home series tied at 1-1. Basingstoke had taken the points in the highly physical early season clash while Peterborough had taken the points in the early December visit. Basingstoke Bison welcomed […]
After a disappointing OT loss at Swindon with a goal scored apparently after the whistle it was back to home ice for the Basingstoke Bison for their opening home league fixture of 2015. 15th November, against Swindon was the last home win in the league although there had been huge […]
After a weekend away from ice hockey it was time to get back to it and the final destination pre-Christmas was Bracknell where the Bison were playing a road game. I had attended the first Bees vs Bison encounter where the home team had, in my opinion, snuck the win […]
Due to my work commitments this Saturday would turn out to be our final trip to Basingstoke this side of Christmas. We had missed out on the Phantoms first visit to Basingstoke, the one where Janis Auzins proved he was susceptible to being wound up and the one where Dave […]
Last weekend, with my cover duty in the DJ Box at Basingstoke complete and the fact the games were from the English Challenge Cup against the NIHL1 teams Ben and I had headed to MK where we saw Lightning vs Phantoms in great company. The schedule showing Bison vs Tigers […]