v Eskimos

The Statesmen kicked off the winter season with their first win against the Cambridge Eskimos. With the two previous encounters ending with a goal in it, the Statesmen were expecting a close game. The Statesmen welcomed three new players in their first game Tom Lahtinen, George Prich and Dmitry Selimir.
The Statesmen got off to a nice start with a goal from Tom on his first game for the Statesmen and bouyed by this jumped off to a 3-0 lead after 15mins, though this could have easily been tied with the Eskimos getting 3 clear breakaways but some great goaltending for Ben kept them out.
The 2nd period was a more back and forth affair with the Eskimos and Statesmen trading goals but the Statesmen getting the better of the period 5-3 with Mike getting a brace to lead 8-3.
The third period went to the Eskimos with the goal hungry Statesmen pushing more forward but unsuprisingly only scoring 1 to the Eskimos 3, 9-6 the final score. MOTM James

Ben gets 50

Thanks to Steve for finding some 'lost' gamesheets and thanks to our founder Mark Feehan as well, lol.
As such officially Ben has now reached 50 games and Ty has 250 goals, congrats Ben.

Memorial Game for Mat Hoxby

Sunday saw the first memorial game for Mat Hoxby who died last year in a fatal car accident. He played for both teams so it was only fitting we have a game in his honour and try to raise some money for Cancer Research (a charity he would have chose and one that is very worthwhile and close to me as well).
In what is hoped to be a bi-monthly game and a memorial cup to be kept by the winning team, the score doesn't really matter, but let's just say that the Statesmen are the current cup holders;)
Thanks to everyone who turned up in a very enjoyable game and we managed to raise a bit over £400 for Cancer Research. Thanks everyone.

Win v Hyenas

In a battle of the Freitag's, the game saw the Statesmen eventual 10-0 winners from only 8 players. A great game played in the spirit normally played between the 2 sides and a special occassion for the senior Freitag was undermined by the junior.

Win v Wolves

The Statesmen played the Solihull Wolves at the Coventry Skydome on the 20th June. In an enjoyable game in a very nice rink the Statesmen were never in danger and won 11-1.

James, Paddy & Mike

Congratulations to James (50) and Paddy (25) assists against the Solihull Wolves and to Mike H who scored his first goal for the Statesmen.

Best D Man & 50 games

Congratulations to Paddy who won best D man for the Streatham tournament and to Isaac who reached 50 games.