The Sheffield Steelers began the defence of there elite ice hockey league title on a Saturday night at the Sheffield arena looking to become the first team in history to win 3 British league titles in a row and extend there record of most league titles to 10. The opponents were the Braehead Clan Runners up in 2015 and 3rd place in 2016 the Clan...
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The Sheffield Steelers unbeaten start to the challenge cup campaign came to an abrupt end this past weekend suffering back to back defeats firstly a 4-3 loss away at Nottingham on Saturday night followed be a disappointing performance at home against the Cardiff Devils. The Steelers got off to a perfect star as John Armstrong put the puck past Ben Bowns after 26 seconds to...
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Following a 4-3 victory in Coventry the previous night the Sheffield Steelers returned to the Sheffield arena looking to make it 3 wins out of 3 in the challenge cup standing in our we this time was the defending cup champions and our biggest rivals the Nottingham Panthers. The crowd of just over 7000 fell silent (apart from a few hundred panthers fans) as within...
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The Sheffield Steelers returned to the champions hockey league this season as the EIHL's only reprehensive in the competition. The Steelers would be drawn in group P against Swedish side HV71 Jonkoping and the Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg. 18th of August and game 1 away at HV71, with 16 minutes left in the 3rd period the Steelers would be on level terms with the...
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The Steelers first game of the 2016/17 elite ice hockey league season got underway yesterday with the visit of our rivals from across the pennines the Manchester Storm in the EIHL challenge cup group B. The Steelers last won the cup in 2003, the final season of the ice hockey super league era and will be hoping to end a 14 year hoodoo come this...
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I've decided to start this blog series on SG as for me this website is a bit of a clean slate. I don't have any family or friends who are members (as far as I know) a few years ago I would keep things bottled up but now I feel like I'm able to talk about things better and how I have changed as a...
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Friday 10th June 2016 - A day that started like the previous 2 days, the sun was shining down and my tent was starting to feel like the inside of a volcano. I headed over to my friend's camp for a couple hours of drinking and discussion on who everyone wanted to see today. At 11:15am I started to make my way to the main...
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Thursday 9th June 2016 - I woke up to the bright orange glow of my tent and sound of the aircraft taking off/landing across the road (literally east midlands airport runway was across the road from my "quiet" campsite) I checked the time to find out it was only 5 in the morning 24 hours earlier I was boarding the train to get here and...
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