Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning are celebrating their first National Ice Hockey League win after a hard fought battle against new team, Leeds Chiefs, at Planet Ice on Saturday.  The 8-4 success was not sealed until the final five minutes following a fracas which ended with Chiefs’ netminder Sam Gospel being thrown out of the game on a match penalty for fighting Rio Grinell-Parke with his blocker. Back-up goalie Miles Finney was thrown into the fray with no time for a warm-up or to psych himself [...]

Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers Two late penalties finally killed off Smith Milton Keynes Lightning’s challenge when they lost 6-4 at Sheffield Steeldogs on Sunday after matching their opponents for most of the game.  Lightning were still in with a chance of taking something from the encounter when they lost the services of Jordan Stokes for tripping and then incurred a too many men on the ice penalty with less than two minutes remaining. Having survived a five on three penalty only a few minutes earlier Lightning were unable to hold [...]

Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning came within a whisker of achieving a shock result against Hull Pirates at Planet Ice on Saturday – eventually losing by the odd goal in nine.  Had it not been for a poor start which saw the visitors take a three goal lead in the first nine minutes Lightning may have run out winners in their first National Ice Hockey League outing against last year’s play off winners. Instead they were left on the wrong end of a 5-4 scoreline. It [...]

Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning had another great pre-season workout last night, this time at Hull Arena where they were pipped in a  3-2 scoreline from which there was much to be optimistic about. Goalie Brandon Stones deservedly picked up the man of the match award for his sterling work in between the pipes – turning away all but a trio of 64 shots on goal.  The hosts were held at bay for more than half the game despite outshooting Lightning 20-5 in the first session [...]

Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers https://a2bairporttransfers.co.uk One of the best ways to get a brand new team ready for a season is to push itself to understand what it needs to improve on and feel the level of intensity it needs to work at to be competitive. This is why we chose to take on last season’s playoff champs Hull Pirates this weekend.  When we caught up with him after the match, Cliff was clear that his to-do list with the team has been massively helped by tonight’s game and he felt [...]

Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning may have gone down to their second narrow loss of the weekend to Sheffield Steeldogs on Sunday but coach Lewis Clifford will have seen plenty of positives from the feisty challenge encounter, writes Paul Brookman. While at least 10 of the Steeldogs team were on last year’s roster MK had just two returnees plus less than handful that had played on the same team together. Last year’s National Ice Hockey League play-off semi-finalists Steeldogs will be buoyed by the 4-3 result at IceSheffield as the new season approaches. Lightning – with Brandon Stones [...]