Manchester Storm

  • Ice Hockey Super League winners 1999
  • Autumn Cup 2000

The Manchester Storm were an ice hockey club in the city of Manchester in England. They played in the British Hockey League and later in the Ice Hockey Superleague. The games were played in the Manchester Evening News Arena, the hockey games at a capacity of 18,500 seats has.

History

The team was founded in 1995 and took on the game mode in the British Hockey League. Equal in their first season won the Storm with 99 points sovereign British Hockey League, the then second highest British league. The team scored 539 goals in 52 games, with 1364 penalty minutes the team was also a leader in this statistic. The team qualified in the subsequent playoff games for the newly formed Ice Hockey Super League.

The first season in the top division in England was athletic satisfactory, only 14 of 43 games, the team of Manchester could win. In the following season, the team was able to achieve a positive balance game for the first time. In the season 1998/99 the team won 65 points in the regular season and won for the first time the British Ice Hockey Championship. In the following year included the Storm to the top group, a year after the team broke and reached the eighth. The 2001/02 season was completed on the last rank. The Storm denied after three games before the team had to be disbanded due to financial problems. One year later, was founded at the initiative of the Friends of Manchester Ice Hockey with the Manchester Phoenix, a new professional hockey team in Manchester.

In addition, the team between 1996 and 2000 on all four sweeps of the European Hockey League participated.

Well-known former players

  • England Rick Brébant
  • United States Dwight Parrish
  • Canada Frank Pietrangelo
  • Canada Nick Poole
  • Canada Jeff Sebastian
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