Professional Ice Hockey England

This is a list of ice hockey leagues both professional and amateur from around the world.

Professional ice hockey england. New england women s hockey alliance women only. In 2017 the league was disbanded with its teams either joining the top tier elite ice hockey lea. They also won medals at the world championships in 1935 1937 and 1938. Headquartered in blackpool the epihl was one of two professional ice hockey leagues in the united kingdom.

A total of 27 teams played in the league at one time or another. Ice hockey has been played in the united kingdom since the beginning of the twentieth century and it was a game between english army veterans played in canada that is the first recorded use of a sawed off ball which led to the use of the puck in hockey. Home matches for the london ice hockey teams are played at the four venues mentioned above streatham leisure centre. Parentheses denote year of establishment and where applicable year of disestablishment.

London raiders ice hockey club fans all teams play both home and away matches. British ice hockey is the best place for all of the latest breaking news features results and rumours from across the elite league national leagues women s game and team gb. Multiple new england states are experiencing issues with the coronavirus for hockey players prompting suspensions in play some states including massachusetts and new hampshire have paused ice. As of 2012 the ten team two division professional elite ice hockey league is the highest level of competition in the united kingdom and features teams from each of the four home nations.

The english premier ice hockey league was an ice hockey league of 10 teams all of which were based in england. However because of the disruption of world war ii and a lack of suitable venues afterwards the sport faded rapidly. The hartford whalers were an american professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in hartford connecticut the club played in the world hockey association wha from 1972 until 1979 and in the national hockey league nhl from 1979 to 1997 originally based in boston the team joined the wha in the league s inaugural season and was known as the new england whalers throughout. North america major professional.

The great britain men s national ice hockey team enjoyed worldwide success through the 1920s and 1930s achieving bronze at the 1924 olympics and gold twelve years later.