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All time leagues: Champions Hockey League | Continental Cup | EIHL | Challenge Cup (EIHL) | National Ice Hockey League (UK) | SNL - Scottish National League | U20 Scottish League | U16 Scottish League | British Ice Hockey Super League | Crossover League | Northern League
This club in 2018-2019: Continental Cup | EIHL | Challenge Cup (EIHL) | U16 Scottish League
| # | Pos | Player name | State | Born | Height | Weight | Shoots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | Travis Lavery |  | 29.10.2003 | 180 cm | 72 kg | right | Show profile» | |
| C | Carter Hamill | | 29.09.2004 | 174 cm | 62 kg | left | Show profile» | |
| RW | Mack Stewart | | 18.06.2004 | 173 cm | 82 kg | left | Show profile» |
* no longer in the club
Initially members of the now defunct Superleague, the Giants won the championship in 2001-02 and were play-off champions in 2002-03. With the Superleague\'s demise, there were concerns that the Giants would not survive because of major financial problems which had developed. Running up debts of £600,000 and facing the threat of liquidation creditors voted to accept 20p in the pound allowing the club to continue. One company was believed to be owed nearly £65,000.
However, with the creation of the new Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) for the 2003-04 season, the Giants survived. The Giants finished 4th in the league\'s first season, but failed to reach the post-season play-offs..
The Giants finished runners up in the 2004-05 season behind the Coventry Blaze but were winners of the Cross-over League Cup, which was played with teams from the BNL.
In 2005, The Giants unveiled the biggest signing in the history of British ice hockey;[citation needed] NHL All-Star and Olympic Gold Medal winner, Theo Fleury. He made his debut against the Edinburgh Capitals. The Giants won 11-2, with Fleury scoring a hat-trick. With 4 additional assists, he was named man of the match.
Besides Fleury, several other players who previously played in the NHL have played for the Giants; Paul Kruse, Jason Ruff, Paxton Schulte, and Jason Bowen, Bowen and Kruse having played almost 600 games between them.
The Belfast Giants currently have one supporter\'s club: the Official Belfast Giants Supporters\' Club (OSC). There are also several popular fan websites and forums that support the Belfast Giants in their own way.
Retired numbers:
4 Shane Johnson
11 Colin Ward
16 Rob Stewart
27 Paxton Schulte
18 Graeme Walton
44 Todd Kelman
League Championships 2001-02, 2005-06
Playoff Championships 2003, 2010
Knockout Cups 2008-09
Challenge Cups 2008-09
Retired numbers: 11 Colin Ward, 27 Paxton Schulte
League winners:
Belfast Giants return to SNL
The Scottish National League team of the Belfast Giants will return to the SNL for the coming season. They last played in the 2014-15 season but SIH chairman David Hand said that with a new rink being built in the Dundonald area it is believed that adding Belfast will lead to new hockey players and adding Belfast can only help with the process,
(12 Jul 2019)Coventry wins EIHL playoffs
Coventry Blaze beat Sheffield Steelers 4-2 in the final to win the EIHL playoffs. Belfast Giants beat Hull Stingrays for the third place. Sheffield Steelers are EIHL champions as they won the regular season.
(05 Apr 2015)CSKA Sofia signed Russian veterans for Continental Cup
CSKA Sofia certainly won't travel to Bremerhaven for Continental Cup second round as underdog: Bulgarian team has strengthened the roster with the addition of five Russian players among which stand out former stars as Oleg Kvasha and Vladimir Antipov, both retired after last season. Other veterans contracted are: defender Mikhail Lyubushin and forwards Dmitry Vlasenkov and Dmitry Bykov.
Cska will play first game friday night against host Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven
Riley Emmerson received 10-games ban
The Elite League's Department of Player Safety has handed Edinburgh Capitals Riley Emmerson a 10-match ban and fined the club £1,000 because of the injury sustained by Belfast Giants Kevin Phillips as a result of a Emmerson boarding check during the Capitals home game on Sunday 7th September 2014.
Edinburgh have been fined £1,000 for failure to supply the matchnight footage required
Belfast Giants and Lugano retires numbers
HC Lugano retired yesterday the jersey #33 of Finnish defender Petteri Nummelin during a farewell match against Lukko Rauma. Nummelin left Lugano after 12 seasons to sign a two-years contract with Lukko (except 2006-2008 seasons with Minnesota Wild) after 2 championships won (2003, 2006), 423 games, 139 goals and 322 assists, a title of MVP of the NLA in 2003, when he was the best scorer of the league and four titles as defender with the highest amount of points in NLA (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). "The retirement of a jersey is more important then a World title for a player" said Nummelin during the ceremony.
Also Belfast Giants retires yesterday the shirt #44 honouring its current GM Todd Kelman during home winning debut against Italian HC Bolzano. Kelman played eight seasons for the Giants with 419 caps, the all-time leader in games played as well as the leading scoring defenceman in the organisation's history with 73 goals and 141 assists. As GM Kelman won 4 titles for the Giants. "I'm happy to now call this wonderful city mine & my family's city. Belfast has been very good to me and I love the people here." said Kelman
(01 Sep 2013)Belfast Giants win Elite Ice Hockey League
By beating defending champion Sheffield Steelers 5-1 in fron of 7.000 spectators, Belfast Giants win their third EIHL title, the first from 2005-06
(17 Mar 2012)EIHL starts
The British Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) started yesterday with two games. David-Alexandre Beauregard scored a hat trick when Nottingham Panthers beat Cardiff Devils 6-1. Mark Ramsey and Steve Birnstill both scored in the shootout to secure the 2-1 win for Sheffield Steelers against Belfast Giants.
(04 Sep 2011)Great Britain (3)Belfast Giants participates in season 2018-2019: Continental Cup, EIHL, Challenge Cup (EIHL), U16 Scottish League
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