UK Ice Hockey Trivia Quiz

Answer: Belfast Giants

The Sheffield Steelers won the last Superleague title. The Giants came second by just one point, but they made up for that with the Play Offs. The Steelers also won the Challenge Cup. The Play Off title was a first for the Giants' coach Dave Whistle after coaching in the UK for 13 years - it was meant to be his last season in the UK as he moved to the Iserlohn Roosters in the DEL for 2003-04 (Germany), but returned to the UK with the Cardiff Devils half way through the same season.

Answer: Elite League

By the end of 2002-03 there were only 5 teams left in the Superleague, and one of them, the Bracknell Bees announced their departure to play in the FNBL (Findus British National League). The five foundation members of the Elite League were: Belfast Giants, London Racers, Manchester IHC, Nottingham Panthers and the Sheffield Steelers.

Answer: London Racers

The arena the Knights played in was bulldozed at the conclusion of the 2002-03 season, leaving them nowhere to play, as the only other option, Alexandra Palace, was to be used by the new team, the Racers. Many thought it was just a name change, as the Knights were going and Racers coming, but it was a whole new team.

Answer: Nottingham Ice Centre

There's no such place as the Nottingham Evening News Arena, but there is the Manchester Eveining News Arena, the Giants play home games in the Odyssey, and the Racers' home is Alexandra Palace.

Answer: True

The Steelers won 15 games in normal time, whereas the Giants won 16. They both lost 8 in normal time and 1 in over time. The Giants drew 6 and the Steelers drew 5. The main differnce was that the Giants only won 1 game in OT whereas the Steelers got 3. Hence the Steelers won by only one point.

Answer: 1996-97

It was introduced 1996-97 and lasted until 2002-03. There were eight teams in the league for the first year and the Cardiff Devils were the first team to win it. The Sheffield Steelers won the Play Offs and the Nottingham Panthers the B&H Cup.

Answer: Barry Nieckar

Nieckar served 150 minutes in all, plus from one incident alone received an 8 game ban. Bit of a bad boy then! In all the top 10 players in terms of PIMs consisted of 4 Panthers, 3 Knights, 2 Steelers, 1 Giant and 0 Bees. The teams shaped up as: Panthers 964 mins, Knights 755 mins, Steelers 675 mins, Giants 663 mins, Bees 506 mins.

Answer: Belfast Giants

Giants led the pack with 111 goals, Panthers had 92, Knights 87, Steelers 86 and finally Bees scored only 71. Top scorer for the season though was Dan Ceman of the Bees with 16 goals followed by the Giants' Paxton Schulte with 13.

Answer: 1,287

The most called penalty was Roughing, with 216 calls and a total of 546 minutes being served for it alone. In total there were 4004 minutes served, which averaged out as 50.05 minutes per fixture

Answer: Enio Sacilotto

He didn't have a great season as the Bees finished bottom of the league, and were the only team not to qualify for the Final Four weekend. They announced that season that they were to leave the Superleague for the FBNL (Findus British National League).

Answer: Bracknell Bees

The Bees took the League, the Knights won the Play-Offs, the Steelers took the Challenge Cup, and Storm won the Benson and Hedges Cup.

Answer: Manchester Storm & Ayr Scottish Eagles

They both folded due to financial problems and it was reported that many other teams came close to joining them. This was part of the reasoning behind the formation of the Elite league, with its wages cap.

Answer: Rob Stewart

Dave Whistle had been Giants coach since they started in 2000. In their second season he led them to win the league and the following year the Play Off title. Rob Stewart had been Whistle's assistant coach whilst in Belfast and before that in Bracknell, so hopefully a good candidate. Unfortunately though he was only given one season in charge, and given the financial difficulties facing him it is hard to tell just how well he could have done with another year.

Answer: False

The League, Play Offs, Challenge Cup and B&H Cup were all won by the Ayr Scottish Eagles in 1997-98, a clean sweep in fact. The Sheffield Steelers repeated this act in 2000-01. The Eagles won again in 2001-02 when they lifted the Challenge Cup and, as they folded during the 2002-03 season that's everything they won as part of the Superleague.

Answer: Joel Laing

Joel Laing was the Sheffield Steelers netminder, and was the key to them winning the Challenge Cup and League. Hope you enjoyed the quiz!