Deeside Dragons

Deeside Dragons
City Queensferry
League ENIHL
Division North 2
Founded 2012
Operated 2012 - present
Home arena Deeside Leisure Centre
Colors White, Red & Green
Captain James Parsons
Championships
Conference Championships 1 (2015/16)
Playoff championships 1 (2015/16)

Deeside Dragons are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the National Ice Hockey League, north division.[1] They play their games at Deeside Leisure Centre, Flintshire, and replaced the previous team Flintshire Freeze. They won the North League championship in the 2015/16 season, with a record of 24-3-1[2] as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs.[3]

In July 2015 it was reported that the Dragons had been bought by Red Hockey Limited,[4] a British Company who own the Telford Tigers English Premier League Ice Hockey team as well as having stakes in Manchester Phoenix and Bracknell Bees.

In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and Flintshire County Council[5] which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents Widnes Wild walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game.[6] Dragons player Alex Roberts received a three-game ban as a result of this incident.

In July 2016 it was announced that Scott McKenzie had left the Widnes Wild to join the Dragons as player-coach.[7] He left the following year.

At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.

Season Position Wins Draws Losses ±
2012-13 2 17 1 6 88
2013-14 2 18 2 8 61
2014-15 5 15 2 17 31
2015-16 1 24 3 1 132
2017-18 (NIHL1) 10 2 0 32 -347


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