With the regular season done eight of the nine teams had two more games in them to battle for a place at Coventry in the final four weekend. Play-off hockey is where the intensity steps up massively and the rule book is relaxed slightly. 240 minutes is all that stands […]
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The 2014/15 regular season is done. Wayne Scholes set out to win the treble in this season and he’s got two of the three trophies already stored in the Telford trophy cabinet. I must admit I had pretty much expected for this season to be a write off for me. […]
For my final live hockey game of the 14/15 season I followed the Bison to the Hive to watch them take on the Bees. Every game now is for pride only for the Bees as they know there are the solitary team from nine to miss the play-offs. Notable in […]
The sad fact of tonight’s game is that it’s my penultimate live game of the 14/15 season. The Bison play a home game next Sunday and then the solitary game the weekend after is played on the road. With the team likely to finish in a top 4 spot the […]
A massive sell out crowd gathered at the Basingstoke Arena for the Flames final visit of the regular season. Season ticket holders only were the sole people to be gaining admission long before the face-off as the “Sold Out” signs were put up. A sell out is always a success, […]
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 […]
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 […]