A2B Airport Transfers Match Report: Wildcats 7 – 0 Smith Recycling MKL
Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers It was a tough evening for the Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lighting as they fell to their heaviest defeat of the season on Saturday night at the Link Centre in Swindon, losing out by a score of 7-0. Lightning came in to the game down 5 of their regulars, with Lewis Christie (personal reasons) joining James Griffin, Russ Cowley and Grant McPherson (Injury) and Harry Ferguson (Suspended) on the sidelines. Christie is expected to re-join the team on Sunday against Leeds Chiefs. Lightning's numbers were bolstered [...]
Match Preview: Smith Recycling MKL vs. Leeds Chiefs 27th October 5.15pm
It's our first Sunday game of the season. Perfect for the start or end of half-term (depending which county you live in!). Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning welcome Leeds Chiefs back to Planet Ice for our second meeting of the season, MKL having won 8-4 last time out. Essential Info - Doors Open 4:30pm, Warm up 4:35pm, Face Off 5:15pm. Tickets available here or on 01908 540020. To get you in the mood, check out DJ Bertie's pre-match playlist here. Players will come onto the ice for warmup to the anthemic Come as you are by Nirvana. Grab a copy [...]
Signing News: Logan Prince makes the switch from MK Thunder
As we look to further drive the quality and depth of our squad, we are formalising something that has been working well for us across a number of games this season.  We’re therefore chuffed that Logan Prince has agreed to join us as a permanent member of the Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning team. We’re particularly pleased after the fantastic shift that Logan put in during our roadtrip win at Raiders. 22 year old Swindon born Logan has had stints with Swindon, Bristol and MK teams in the past and if you’ve seen him play you’ll already know that he’s [...]
Introducing our Remembrance Day Commemorations
Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning together with the Supporters Club are delighted to share with you our plans to commemorate Remembrance Day 2019. On Saturday 9th November for the home game against Bracknell Bees, we will remember those who have fallen, pay our respects and support the Royal British Legion by wearing a special Remembrance jersey. These jerseys will be available through the own and loan scheme and will cost £125 each, and if there is demand we will produce a limited run for purchase as replicas. We have been working with the Royal British Legion this year to gain their [...]
Tom Carlon signs for 2 weeks as cover
It's been clear to everyone that Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning has been playing with a short bench recently, with a set of players missing through injury. Their recovery is going well, but we want to avoid as much as possible playing with a lower number of players as this increases the likelihood of injuries to those players through additional workload. We're therefore delighted that Tom Carlon will be joining us for some short term injury cover. Head Coach Lewis Clifford had this to say: "With the short bench we have been running over the past few weekends, it is [...]
A2B Airport Transfers Match Report: Raiders 3 – 4 Smith Recycling MKL
Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers After the agony came the ecstasy as Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning celebrated a hard won 4-3 win over Raiders at Romford’s Sapphire Leisure Centre on Sunday. They did it despite being desperately short benched – icing just eight recognised forwards as James Griffin joined the list of the injured which numbered Russ Cowley, Grant McPherson and Jordan Lawday plus the suspended Harry Ferguson. Milton Keynes Thunder’s Logan Prince was also given a start. The morale boosting victory was all the more sweet as it came [...]
Match Photos – MKL 3 – 4 Bracknell. 19th October
Tony Sargent has again been at work capturing some amazing game images for us. Please have a browse of these photos at your leisure. Click here for Leeds tickets Click here for Leeds tickets
A2B Airport Transfers Match Report: Smith Recycling MKL 3 – 4 Bracknell Bees
Match Reports are brought to you in association with A2B Airport Transfers It was Charity night at MK last night, with Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning and the Supporters' Club raising money for the Milton Keynes Hospital Charity Cancer Centre Appeal. At the end of the night, a cheque for £2,841.15 was presented on the ice to Charlotte Jelley, as well as Shirt of their Back winners Glyn Greene (for Skinns) and Sam Bill (for Clifford), Ollie's Grid winner Stephen Day, and 50/50 winner Debbie Wilmott. Thank you all for you support and to the Supporters' Club for [...]
Match Preview: Smith Recycling MKL vs. Bracknell Bees 19th October 7pm
It's Charity night this weekend as Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning welcome Bracknell Bees to Planet Ice on Saturday for the second meeting between the two teams in just under a fortnight. We will be raising money for Milton Keynes Hospital Charity Cancer Centre appeal. Essential Info - Doors Open 6pm, Warm up 6:20pm, Face Off 7pm. Tickets available here or on 01908 540020. To get you in the mood, check out DJ Bertie's pre-match playlist here. During the first period interval we will have 14 year old Louis Gregory performing his figure skating routine for us as well as the [...]
Dean Skinns joins to provide cover
We're delighted that Dean Skinns has joined Smith Recycling Milton Keynes Lightning to provide some short term goaltending cover. Jordan Lawday has picked up an injury and Dean will join us to provide injury cover on a game by game basis. Speaking about Dean's arrival, Smith Recycling MKL Head Coach Lewis Clifford said: "I'm really pleased that Dean has agreed to help us out on a short term basis. Jordan has picked up a knock, and we want to make sure that we give him the time he needs to work it off. Brandon Stones has been great in net [...]
