Regular contributor Stephen Smeeth tries to focus on the season ahead with the perspective of what has gone before. Almost a year since Kingdom of the Giants kindly posted a little blog from me. To summarise that piece, it was just to get everyone excited, ready for the 2018/19 season and refresh some memories to... Continue Reading →
We struggle to recall a louder noise in the SSE Arena. The scene was one of nervous tension in the winner-takes-all final game of the 2019 IIHF Continental Cup. Visiting team Arlan Kokshetau had taken a 2-0 lead into the final period with the Giants facing a mountain to climb. Chris Higgins, returning to Belfast... Continue Reading →
The King is dead. Long live the King. Well, not quite. But the departure of EIHL MVP Tyler Beskorowany from the Belfast Giants this Summer left perhaps the biggest pair of skates to fill in the entire league. As reported on this week's A View From The Bridge off season special- along with an exclusive... Continue Reading →
The only thing better than watching your League, Cup and Conference Champion Belfast Giants is watching them all season long. And imagine you could do that for just over the cost of a pint! Just a few tickets remain of the original 200 released by AVFTB panelist and Giants stat-man Davy McGimpsey, with all profits... Continue Reading →
By Joel Neill This coming season, the Teal Army will be swapping the glamour of Sheffield industrial estates, Chippy Lane in Cardiff, "a restaurant" in Nottingham, and literally all of Fife for the modest surrounds of Augsburg (Germany), Liberec (Czech Republic) and Lulea (Sweden) as the Belfast Giants venture back into Europe on their first... Continue Reading →
It's the 29th May and around the cities of the EIHL, hockey is perhaps not the first thing on everyone's mind. But that didn't stop the Teal Army from packing into the SSE Arena to hear from Head Coach Adam Keefe, fresh off a successful World Championships campaign as Assistant Coach to Pete Russell and... Continue Reading →
The Belfast Giants will travel to Germany, Czech Republic and Sweden in the forthcoming group stage of the Champions Hockey League. Today’s CHL draw, that took place at the IIHF World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, place the Giants in Group C with Augsburg Panthers of the DEL, HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of Czech Extraliga and... Continue Reading →
Following a season of silverware for the Belfast Giants, Colin Shields completed his final professional ice hockey game with a 4-3 victory as Team GB retianed their positon in Championship level of the IIHF World Championships and condemned a dispondant French side to relgation to Division I. GB fought back from 3-0 down to bring... Continue Reading →
(Full audio interview below) THE SMOTHERMAN ERA ROLLS ON. Your Belfast Giants have confirmed the return of one of last year’s most compelling stories, and most beloved players. It didn’t take Jordan Smotherman long to win the hearts and minds of the Teal army when he arrived on these shores back in February. Not only... Continue Reading →
The most casual elements of Northern Ireland’s hockey fandom could have been forgiven for thinking that GKS Katowice were EIHL newcomers in 2018/19, such was the regularity of their appearances at the SSE Arena. The Polish outfit, coached by enigmatic Canadian Tom Coolen played out some ferocious battles against Adam Keefe’s men in Continental Cup... Continue Reading →
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