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Great Britain [Elite League]
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- Parent Category: Leagues
- Published on Wednesday, 12 September 2007 09:29
Elite League
- Table standings are not very important in Elite League. Team forms are constantly changing and surprises are very often. Home and away performances are usually more important than position on table.
- Keeping track of livescores is not an easy task. Both ih-update.co.uk and britishicehockey.co.uk are putting much effort in providing live scores, but they don't have all matches covered. Good source for livescoring are teams' forums. There are usually some members attending match and posting all result changes.
- Some teams have good media coverage on-line, so be sure to check those links for news.
- All matches involving Cardiff Devils have excellent previews on Devils' web site.
- Ice-pad size is very important, as 'big' teams tend to struggle when playing at small rinks and vice-a-versa.
- There are two rounds each weekend and team's performances on Sunday are rarely connected to Saturday's performances.
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Official League Site
Official Team Links
- Basingstoke Bison
- Belfast Giants
- Cardiff Devils
- Coventry Blaze
- Edinburgh Capitals
- Hull Stingrays
- Manchester Phoenix
- Newcastle Vipers
- Nottingham Panthers
- Sheffield Steelers
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Forums
- Elite forums
- Manchester Phoenix forum
- Steel Talk (Sheffield Steelers forum)
- Edinburgh capitals forum
- The Cage Forum (Nottingham Panthers forum)
- Coventry Blaze Forum
Unofficial Team Links (with team news)
- Fortress Odyssey (Belfast Giants)
- Kingdom of the Giants (Belfast Giants)
- The Capitals Corner (Edinburgh Capitals)
- The Inferno (Cardiff Devils) - including forum and livescores of Devils' matches
Blogs
News and rumours
- Rumors
- Sky Sports
- Belfast Telegraph
- BBC Coventry (usually broadcasting live Coventry's games)
- Coventry Telegraph
- Manchester Evening News
- SportHull.co.uk
- icNewcastle
- this is nottingham
- The Star (Sheffield)
- icWales (Cardiff)
- Five Minute Major (Manchester)
- sport.scotsman.com
- Basingstoke Gazette
Livescore
Rink sizes- Sheffield Steelers [Hallam FM Arena]: capacity 9000, ice-pad size 197 feet x 98 feet
- Nottingham Panthers [National Ice Centre]: capacity 8000, ice-pad size 197 feet × 98 feet
- Belfast Giants [Odyssey Arena]: capacity 8000, ice-pad size 197 feet x 98 feet
- Newcastle Vipers [Metro Radio Arena]: capacity 5500, ice-pad size 197 feet x 98 feet
- Basingstoke Bison [Planet Ice]: capacity 4000 (1800 according to Wikipedia), ice-pad size 197 feet x 98 feet
(I apologise for the mistake I made in Planet Ice capacity. I haven't re-checked my infos, so I doubled the capacity by accident. Thanks to the people at Elite Forums for spotting that error) - Edinburgh Capitals [Murrayfield Ice Rink]: capacity 3800, ice-pad size 200 feet x 97 feet
- Coventry Blaze [Sky Dome Arena]: capacity 2900, ice-pad size 184 feet x 92 feet
- Cardiff Devils [Cardiff Bay Ice Rink]: capacity 2500, ice-pad size 184 feet x 85 feet
- Manchester Phoenix [Altrincham Ice Dome]: capacity 2526, ice-pad size 190 feet x 95 feet
- Hull Stingrays [Hull Ice Arena]: capacity 2000, ice-pad size 197 feet x 98 feet
Previous standings (regular season only)
| Club | 2003/4 | 2004/5 | 2005/6 | 2006/7 | 2007/8 | 2008/9 |
| Basingstoke Bison |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
9 |
10 |
| Belfast Giants |
4 | 2 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
| Cardiff Devils |
5 | 3 |
5 |
3 |
6 |
5 |
| Coventry Blaze |
3 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Edinburgh Capitals |
8 | 10 |
8 |
8 |
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| Hull Stingrays |
9 |
10 |
9 |
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| London Racers |
8 | 6 | ||||
| Manchester Phoenix |
6 | 6 |
7 |
6 |
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| Newcastle Vipers |
2 | 8 |
5 |
7 |
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| Notthingham Panthers |
2 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
| Sheffield Stealers |
1 |
5 |
6 | 4 |
2 |
1 |
Colored cells represent play-off champions for that season.
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