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 […]
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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 […]
Saturday’s destination was the newly refurbished Planet Ice, Milton Keynes where the Lightning would take on the Phantoms. The journey passed smoothly, memory from my time working there got Ben and I navigated to the arena easily and by fortune a car left a space not more than a 100 […]
My third and final cover game at Basingstoke saw the Bison take on the Swindon Wildcats. Having seen the Bison win the first two games of my stint I wanted a 3 for 3 record. The win was also important as the Bison are the only team keeping pace with […]
Sunday night’s road trip had only one possible destination as the Guildford Flames were the only local team at home. Their opponents were Slava Koulikov’s Peterborough Phantoms who were on Spectrum ice for the second time in the season. After journeying through Windsor, Staines and Chertsey to join up with […]
Week two of cover duty at the Bison arena saw me take charge of the DJ Duties for the Basingstoke vs Milton Keynes game. Milton Keynes were one of two teams I had yet to see this season, following last night’s game the only team I’m yet to see is […]