A new dawn, a new day

So this week has been rather interesting for the Steelers as owner Paul Ragan decided to focus 100% on his other team the Cardiff Devils. This left the Elite League Champions in the hands of Sheffield born Tony Smith, who's commitment and professionalism will keep the Steelers on form. Welcome to the family Tony!

I would also like to welcome our new British winger Lee Esders to the house of Steel. Lee played for the Hull Stingrays last season and picked up 13 points in 53 games. I am positive that he will be great for our team and will flourish under Ryan Finnerty's coaching. I look forward to seeing Lee on the ice in a Steelers jersey!


Lee Esders
(from Hull and East Riding paper)

Moving on to field hockey now, I played for Wakefield hockey club today against rivals Wakefield Wanderers. Despite dominating the pitch we lost 2-0 due to the hard hits of the Wanderers 3 forwards. I would like to thank all the my girls as todays game was great, we may have lost but our spirits remained high! Would also like to thank the umpires, especially the young man who started chatting to me, you were lovely! Should have got his number really!

Bye for now! x




Wakefield Hockey club



The off season would not be the same without drama!

Once again the Sheffield Steelers have a troubled off season as Rink Corp their latest management goes into voluntary liquidation. Paul Ragan, who owns the Steelers and the Cardiff Devils, runs the company.

Fans from both clubs have been assured that the teams will not be affected and that season tickets will be honored as matches will continue as planned. The club is currently being run by a company called Ice Arena and shall be run separately from the Devils who will be run by Cardiff Ice Arena.

As a Steelers fan I am used to this off season worry of whether or not I will have a team next season. It's the same every summer and it makes us stronger then ever!

Not wanting to dwell on the negatives for a moment longer, I would like to welcome the Fife Flyers to our league. We have been waiting a long time for them to join the Elite League and I don't know about you but I am certainly looking forward to all the trips up to Scotland seeing as we have four teams based up there! Hopefully we might get some double headers - weekend away in Scotland anyone?

I shall leave you with two big rivalry games for the Steelers next season:

26^th December – Home against Nottingham Panthers

27^th December – Away against Nottingham Panthers

Make sure you put them on your calendar as these games are not to be missed! x

Any hockey is better than no hockey!

The last game of the hockey season was the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup Final. Boston beat the home team Vancouver 4-0 with goals from two skilled players Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. Marchand sealed the Bruins win by scoring a last minute empty net goal after the Canucks pulled their netminder in a last chance attempt to score. Tim Thomas the Bruins netminder once again stood strong and shut out Vancouver - no wonder he got MVP! This win is the first time Boston have won the Stanley Cup since 1972 and I have got to say it was worth getting up at 1am to watch this amazing feat (who needs sleep when you have hockey?)

Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images

However when the game ended and the Bruins celebrated I did not celebrate, before you ask no I'm not a Canucks fan! The reason I did not join in with the celebrations was due to a case of off season blues! What do I do now since there is no ice hockey and no field hockey? Simple answer was to help out with my hockey club.

Today was a good example of me helping out, teaching 9-year-olds how to play hockey. Normally I don't like coaching kids as they never seen to listen to me but I found it rather enjoyable today, teaching them about the game I love and live by. One kid turned up in a Toronto Maple Leafs shirt, ok it's not ice hockey but it's still a form of hockey so he became legend of the day! It made me smile knowing that he was a fellow ice hockey and field hockey fan!

Ok thats all for today folks - thanks for reading :)

It's great waking up to Hockey...

Nothing better then starting your day by finding out that hot shot forward and fan favourite Jeff Legue has returned to the Sheffield Steelers for his 5th season on the Ice. The 29 year old Canadian even managed to prank David Simms before signing on the dotted line by sending David a photo of himself driving a Nottingham Panthers car - oh how it made me laugh when i saw it!



Jeff Legue during Steelers warm up



The day was put on a slight downer when it was announced that Jerramie Domish (a.k.a The Speed Demon) would not be returning to us as he has gone to rivals Coventry Blaze. Will miss him on our blue line but I wish him the best of luck in Coventry!

To end my day I watched the movie "Sex & drugs & rock & roll". I have to say it was a great movie about Ian Dury's life and I would recommend you watch it! However you can tell I am a huge hockey fan as I got majorly excited when I saw the character who plays Ian Dury's son in a Chicago Blackhawks jersey!

Thats all for today - thank you for reading