44 min

Behind the Bench Episode 10 - Part 1 - The Superleague year Behind the Bench with Neil Francis

    • Sports

British Ice Hockey went through it's biggest ever change in the summer of 1996, 8 clubs broke away from the British Ice Hockey Association to form the Superleague, a new league that had an unlimited cap on Imports and Expenditure.
 
It heralded the highest level of hockey Britain had ever seen, and the Cardiff Devils and the Sheffield Steelers went head to head to try and win it.
In Part 1:
- Franny talks about his adventure to Graz 
- We give the background on the 8 clubs who broke away 
- Scott Dobben takes us off his Christmas Card list
- and we find out who scored the second ever Superleague goal.
 

British Ice Hockey went through it's biggest ever change in the summer of 1996, 8 clubs broke away from the British Ice Hockey Association to form the Superleague, a new league that had an unlimited cap on Imports and Expenditure.
 
It heralded the highest level of hockey Britain had ever seen, and the Cardiff Devils and the Sheffield Steelers went head to head to try and win it.
In Part 1:
- Franny talks about his adventure to Graz 
- We give the background on the 8 clubs who broke away 
- Scott Dobben takes us off his Christmas Card list
- and we find out who scored the second ever Superleague goal.
 

44 min

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