NIHL - 2013/2014 Season

[Whoopie]

Just wondered if there is going to be a NIHL side this year. There was a lot of uncertainty at the start of last season with the team with what appeared from the outside to be the minimum of support in the form of ice time and travel. Despite this Cudds and all the others involved carried on and produced a really good team with I believe 5 "call ups" to the Elite squad perhaps proving what a valuable set up this is.

Any news out there?

 

[Ger-Devils]

There will be two teams as far as I'm aware.

Band has signed for London Racers NIHL2

2 others have moved on it seems.

 

[StreetDevil]

I certainly hope so, its the stepping stone to the Elite League team.
And with a large chunk of the very successful U18 team moving up should be competitive with it, problem is we are more or less one of the only teams in that league with no budget so what we achieve each season is fantastic at this level.

Lots of news around on signings for this league.
As Ger-Devils says Ali Band has moved on to London Racers in NIHL 2, Steve Osman our 2nd top scorers has signed for "BIG" budget team Wightlink Raiders and think Steven Fisher may be playing for a London based team after moving for his job?

Hopefully we start to see news on signings and the team very soon

 

[Arms13]

Lots of the bid spenders are signing early:

Isle of Wight are pretty much finished signing, including chucking wedges of riches at Ozzy to get him haha.

Romford are out (rink closed) so lots of Romford players moving about mainly to serial spenders Invicta and one or two 3rd liners to Haringey with Bandy.

Chelmsford to will keep the majority of their team as local lads, with a few extras as Gary Clarke likes to build year on year. The main talking point is Danny Hammond not being re-signed. He will turn up somewhere, probably Invicta!

MK are in trouble with their rink closing for refurb, so not sure on them even playing at all. Waiting for news on that.

Streatham will be moving to their new shiny rink in November so will likely attract a few additonal keys players this season to boost them. Rumours of lots but none confirmed yet. Warren Rost (Boooooooo!!) has just been announced as coach again so expect their signings to be coming soon.

Bracknell will sign mainly the same team with Danny Hughes as coach, some confirmed already but the big addition is Brad Watchorn returning after a short spell at Invicta and not playing the end of the season.

Solent and Gosport have managed to escape the drop because Oxford didn't want to come up, so they will stay NIHL1 and have added Murray from Isle of Wight, I would still expect them to be struggling tho unless they can add an import or two of decent standard.

NIIHL1 Devils....no confirmed news yet. It's only June and the majority of the players here are local trained. With the exception of those that have moved up to EIHL I would expect largely the same again this year with maybe a few Cudd surprises

 

[StreetDevil]

Hopefully some news then soon Arms :?:
This league will be very competitive this year again, heard the MK Thunder is still being discussed and Oxford City Stars maybe forced to take promotion but wont know until later this month after the EIHA meeting?

Lets hope Cudd can retain most of the squad from last season and start to make announcements soon, rumour on the Invicta forum of Vaisenen to Cardiff :lol:

 

[Arms13]

Chris Douglas just confirmed as Netminder at Invicta Dynamos. That will really help them.

 

[Whoopie]

Still quiet on the "Cardiff front" but other teams have been busy signing. Romford Raiders have been able to secure a place to skate at Lee Valley. They are now called "London Raiders". They are still a Romford team though and there was some comments made as to the effect upon the newly formed London Racers who are starting in NIHL 2 and whether they should also start in NIHL 2 being a "new team". With Oxford not stepping up and no news concerning Milton Keynes Thunder we do of course need a reasonable amount of teams to play in this league.

Signings so far: (Taken from Chelmsford forum)
BRACKNELL HORNETS
IN -
Tony Barclay (F/D) - Re-signed 10/6/13
Tom Carroll (F) - From Sabbattical 14/6/13
Tom Fisher (F) - Re-signed (Two-way with Bracknell Bees - EPL) 13/05/13
Jordan Gregory (D) - (Two-way with Bracknell Bees - EPL) Re-signed 24/5/13
Ryan Handisides (F) - Re-signed 3/6/13
Danny Hughes (Player-coach, F) - Re-signed
Peter Jasik (F,I) - Re-signed 13/05/13
Matt Jordan (D) - Re-signed 10/6/13
Nick Minhinnick (F) - Re-signed (Two-way with Bracknell Bees - EPL) 28/5/13
Matt Ovenden (F) - From Sabbattical 14/6/13
Ben Paynter (F) - (Two-way with Bracknell Bees - EPL) Re-signed 3/6/13
Luke Reynolds (D) - Re-signed 24/5/13
Carl Thompson (F) - Re-signed 7/6/13
Brad Watchorn (F/D) - From Sabbattical 17/05/13
Bill Webb (Bench coach) - Re-signed
Ryan Webb (F) - (Two-way with Bracknell Bees - EPL) Re-signed 28/05/13
Richard Wojciak (D) - Re-signed 21/5/13

OUT -
Chris Douglas - To Invicta Dynamos


CARDIFF NIHL DEVILS
IN -

OUT -
Steve Osman - To Wightlink Raiders 17/5/13


CHELMSFORD CHIEFTAINS
IN -
Ryan Bainborough (NM) - Re-signed 30/5/13
Grant Bartlett (F) - Re-signed 18/6/13
Gary Clarke (Player-coach, F) Re-signed
Ben Clements (NM) - Re-signed 30/5/13
Michael Ranby (F) - Re-signed 12/6/13
Tibor Schneider (I,D) - Re-signed 21/05/13
Julian Smith (D) - From London (Romford) Raiders 18/6/13
Alex Staples (D) - Re-signed 12/6/13
Matt Turner (F) - From Romford Raiders 6/6/13

OUT -
Danny Hammond - To Invicta Dynamos 20/5/13
Mike McKay - To unknown 18/6/13
Julius Sinkovic - To France 3/6/13


INVICTA DYNAMOS
IN -
Chris Douglas (NM) - From Bracknell Hornets 7/6/13
Dan Fudger (F) - Re-signed 19/6/13
Ryan Giles (D) - From Romford Raiders 24/5/13
Danny Hammond (F) - From Chelmsford Chieftains 21/6/13
Juraj Huska (I,F) - From Romford Raiders 22/5/13
Alan Lack (F) - From Bracknell Bees (EPL) 11/5/13
Kevin Parrish (Coach) - Re-signed
Arran Strawson (F) - Re-signed 17/05/13
Shaun Wild (F/D) - From Sheffield Steeldogs (EPL) 31/5/13

OUT -
Sam Cheema - To Haringey Racers 14/6/13
Nathanial Rose - To Wightlink Raiders 20/5/13
Tim Smith - To Unknown 13/5/13


LONDON RAIDERS - (SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION) - FORMERLY ROMFORD RAIDERS
IN -
Jason Buckman (F) - Re-signed 18/6/13
Danny Marshall (Player-coach, F) - Re-signed 12/6/13
David Oliver (D) - Re-signed 19/6/13
Billy Phillips (D) - Re-signed 21/6/13
Shaun Yardley (F) - Re-signed 18/6/13

OUT -
Tom Davis - To Haringey Racers (NIHL2S) 31/5/13
Ryan Giles - To Invicta Dynamos 24/5/13
Juraj Huska - To Invicta Dynamos 21/05/13
AJ Smith - Retired 27/5/13
Julian Smith - To Chelmsford Chieftains 18/6/13
Matt Turner - To Chelmsford Chieftains 6/6/13


MILTON KEYNES THUNDER
IN -

OUT -


SOLENT AND GOSPORT DEVILS
IN -
Kris Abbott (F) - Re-signed 1/6/13
Alex Cole (D) - Re-signed 1/6/13
Christian Cole (NM) - Re-signed 22/5/13
Will Francis (Player-coach, D) - Re-signed 1/6/13
Andrew Goddard (D) - Re-signed 28/5/13
Alex Murray (F) - From Wightlink Raiders 31/5/13
Adam Rich (F) - Re-signed 31/5/13
Aaron Taylor (NM) - Re-signed 22/5/13
Luke Tull (D) - From Wightlink Tigers (NIHL2S) 31/5/13

OUT -


STREATHAM REDSKINS
IN -
Terry England (Bench coach) - Re-signed 3/6/13
Warren Rost (Head coach) - Re-signed 3/6/13

OUT -
Jakub Klima - To unknown 12/6/13


WIGHTLINK RAIDERS
IN -
Alex Barker (F) - From Slough Jets (EPL) 02/05/13
Matt Colclough (NM) - Re-signed
Nick Compton (D) - Re-signed 22/5/13
Jeremy Cornish (Player-coach, I, F) - Re-signed
Richard Facey (F) - Re-signed 29/5/13
Ben Lock (D) - Re-signed 14/05/13
Damon Larter (D) - Re-signed
Steve Osman (F) - From Cardiff NIHL Devils 17/05/13
Dan Pye (D) - Re-signed 08/05/13
Nathanial Rose (F) - From Invicta Dynamos 20/5/13
Nathan Taylor (F) - Re-signed 14/05/13
Craig Tribe (F) - Re-signed 5/6/13
Corey Watkins (F) - Re-signed 13/6/13

OUT -
Aidan Doughty - To Mattawa Voyagers (GMHL - Canada) 23/5/13
Alex Murray - To Solent & Gosport Devils 31/5/13

 

[StreetDevil]

Totally gutted as Osman to Wightlink Raiders has been followed up with NIHL ALL Star forward Sean "Scarzy" Scarborough and Steven Fisher both signing for Streatham Redskins :cry:

No news yet on our NIHL team for this season and slightly worried with a lot of experience lost from our roster.

http://www.streatham-redskins.co.uk/201 ... for-goals/

 

[grinder]

Dident expect that one ?, £££££££££ talks , hard to compete with paid teams,

 

[Arms13]

Fisher moving to Streatham is more of a lifestyle and locational choice rather than money talking. He has moved up to London with his girlfriend and changed jobs so it makes sense to play somewhere local and make a bit of beer money too.

Scarzy on the other hand was always going to be a tough player to retain, I would suggest almost every team would have wanted him this year and offers were flying about, it seems Streatham have the biggest lure with a new rink, London location and some money to chuck about.

James Warman is also highly likely to pop up in Streatham as he too has moved to London for a work placement following his Uni in Bath.

I'm sure Cudd will pull it all together in time for the season starting though. There is a constant line of great local talent, mixed in with the regular old/young boys. Maybe one or two old/old boys won't be lacing up tho but its still the summer so who knows.