Tag: Elite League
Ice hockey – Robertson hoping for the nod
Caly Robertson netted twice for Edinburgh Capitals in their 9-4 home defeat by play-off chasing Dundee Stars on Sunday.
And the 17-year-old hopes to get the nod to ice when Capitals visit arch rivals Fife...
Ice hockey – Capitals skid to another defeat
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 4, Dundee Stars 9; Milton Keynes Lightning 5, Fife Flyers 2
Dundee Stars earned a play-off lifeline thanks to a 9-4 victory at bottom club Edinburgh Capitals who skidded to their...
Ice hockey – razor-sharp Devils crush Capitals
Elite League; Edinburgh Capitals 2, Cardiff Devils 10; Nottingham Panthers 4, Braehead Clan 3 after overtime. Gardiner Conference: Dundee Stars 6, Fife Flyers 7 (after overtime)
Drew Paris and Joey Haddad both claimed trebles as...
Ice hockey – Capitals stun Giants with welcome win
Elite League: Fife Flyers 7, Dundee Stars 0; Belfast Giants 2, Edinburgh Capitals 4; Braehead Clan 1, Coventry Blaze 3
Bottom club Edinburgh Capitals claimed only their fifth win in 44 games this season when...
Ice hockey – Foster treble sinks sad Capitals
Ben Foster scored a treble and Christian Isackson a double as Milton Keynes Lightning shot down bottom club Edinburgh Capitals 8-2 in Buckinghamshire.
Kevin King was also heavily involved with a goal and three assists...
Ice hockey – captain calls for big effort
Mike D'Orazio is looking for squad players to step-up as his men prepare for Sunday’s home clash with high-flying Fife Flyers.
The club’s interim coach has had to juggle lines following the departure of two...
Ice hockey – two players quit Capitals
Edinburgh Capitals have confirmed that defenceman Nikita Kolesnikovs and forward Pavel Vorobyev have left the club with immediate effect.
Vorobyev originally joined the Capitals in 2016 and finished as the club’s top scorer last season...
Ice hockey – Nickerson banned for 20 games
Edinburgh Capitals on Sunday host a Milton Keynes Lightning squad minus former Fife Flyers defenceman Matt Nickerson who has been handed a 20-game ban.
The 6ft 4in, tough-as-teak blue-liner, who played more than 80 games...
Ice hockey – Hay looking for vital spark
Jock Hay didn’t mince his words after Edinburgh Capitals were beaten 6-3 at Murrayfield by play-off chasing Dundee Stars.
The former Murrayfield Racers forward said the squad shot themselves in the foot with horrendous defending.
Capitals...
Ice hockey – Capitals skid to another defeat
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 3, Dundee Stars 6
Jimmy Jensen claimed a double as Dundee Stars wrapped up a four-point weekend thanks to a 6-3 victory at bottom club Edinburgh Capitals.
It clinched a four-game winning...
Ice hockey – joy as Capitals end losing streak
Elite League: Dundee Stars 3, Braehead Clan 7; Edinburgh Capitals 4, Manchester Storm 3; Coventry Blaze 5, Fife Flyers 2 .
Bottom club Edinburgh Capitals have ended their 15-game losing streak.
They went 2-1 down then...
Ice hockey – late surge secures Fife victory
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 3, Fife Flyers 5
Edinburgh Capitals nightmare season continued when they lost 5-3 at home to arch rivals Fife Flyers who have won eight times in nine games in December.
It was...
Ice hockey – Capitals sign new Finnish forward
Edinburgh Capitals gave new Finnish forward Patrik Moisio his debut at Belfast Giants on Friday.
Moisio was a bronze medal winner with the Finland under-18 team in 2009-2010 and has played 86 games in the...
Ice hockey – Clan extend the misery for Capitals
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 1, Braehead Clan 3
Brendan Brooks claimed two goals as Braehead Clan skated to their fifth win in all competitions over Edinburgh Capitals.
Brooks, a former Fife Flyers star, netted in the...
Ice hockey: Capitals skid to defeat No 7
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 3, Belfast Giants 6; Cardiff Devils 8, Dundee Stars 1; Sheffield Steelers 3, Braehead Clan 0; Guildford Flames 1, Fife Flyers 2 (after overtime).
Edinburgh Capitals new coaching team saw their...
Ice hockey – Capitals strengthen from the back
Edinburgh Capitals' new netminder Tyler Beskorowany will arrive early in the New Year and the 27-year-old Canadian will replace current netminder Pavel Shegalo at No 1.
Ontario-born Beskorowany is 6ft 4in and a former National...
Ice hockey – Khristich quits Capitals
Edinburgh Capitals and their head coach Dmitri Khristich have parted company.
The Ukrainian-born former National Hockey League player replaced Michael Dobron.
And he was charged with getting the club to the play-offs.
Khristich believes his decision to...
Ice hockey – Captials burned by Flames
Elite League: Cardiff Devils 6, Braehead Clan 4; Edinburgh Capitals 2, Guildford Flames 7; Sheffield Steelers 1, Fife Flyers 3
The nightmare continues for Edinburgh Capitals who have skidded to their sixth straight defeat.
Elite League...
Ice hockey – Dutiaume looks to slay Giants
Fife Flyers head coach Todd Dutiaume is desperate to land silverware for the club’s success-hungry fans.
And high-flying Belfast Giants provide a formidable obstacle to Fife’s progress in the Challenge Cup.
The first-leg of the mouth-watering...
Ice hockey – basement rivals clash
Edinburgh Capitals and Dundee Stars clash head-on on Friday (face-off 7.30pm) in a huge basement battle at The Dundee Ice Arena.
They are desperately in need of points as they bid to catch the chasing...
Ice hockey – Capitals to ‘strengthen’
Edinburgh Capitals have assured succes-hungry fans that they will strengthen on and off the ice.
The Murrayfield side, who anchor the 12-strong table with only six points from 22 league fixtures, promise to confirm new...
Ice hockey – Capitals burned by Blaze
Elite League: Fife Flyers 5, Milton Keynes Lightning 2; Milton Keynes Lightning 5, Dundee Stars 1; Coventry Blaze 4, Braehead Clan 3 (after overtime); Dundee Stars 5, Manchester Storm 3; Edinburgh Capitals 2, Coventry...
Ice hockey – Stars struck by Lightning
Elite League: Coventry Blaze 4, Braehead Clan 3 (after sudden death overtime); Milton Keynes Lightning 5, Dundee Stars 1.
Brian Hart netted Dundee Stars’ consolation strike in a 5-1 defeat at Elite League newcomers Milton...
Ice hockey – Dutiaume claims weekend win double
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 1, Fife Flyers 5; Cardiff Devils 3, Dundee Stars 2; Braehead Clan 0, Nottingham Panthers 3
Fife Flyers completed an Elite League weekend win double over bottom club Edinburgh Capitals.
The Kirkcaldy...
Ice hockey – Capitals hit for six by Flyers
Elite League: Braehead Clan 3, Coventry Blaze 1; Fife Flyers 6, Edinburgh Capitals 2; Guildford Flames 7, Dundee Stars 3
Bottom club Edinburgh Capitals were beaten 6-2 by Fife Flyers at Kirkcaldy with Danick Gauthier...
Ice hockey – Flyers bosses warn squad
Fife Flyers entertain misfiring Edinburgh Capitals on Saturday 7.15pm and coach Todd Dutiaume confirmed that the coaching staff would not allow complacency ahead of the game against the Elite League bottom-markers.
Edinburgh let a 2-0...
Ice hockey – Hutchins aiming to KO Giants
Jeff Hutchins, Fife Flyers’s assistant coach, said they felt that either Belfast or Cardiff would select Flyers in the draw.
Edinburgh-based Hutchins confirmed that dates have not been worked out but Belfast are the higher...
Ice hockey – Khristich hopes two are fit
Edinburgh Capitals should have two key players available for Wednesday’s Elite League clash with champions Cardiff Devils at Murayfield.
Denis Trakhanov required medical attention after being cut just below his nose by an opponents stick...
Ice hockey – Capitals fans celebrate after shooting down Stars
Elite League: Edinburgh Capitals 5, Dundee Stars 3; Nottingham Panthers 4, Fife Flyers 5 (after overtime)
Edinburgh Capitals put their off-ice problems behind them to record another stunning home victory.
Only seven days after beating Coventry...
Ice hockey – Khristich looking up after snuffing out Blaze
Dmitri Khristich has gone from the high life in the world’s top ice hockey league to rock bottom of the Elite League.
It’s a journey that the Ukraine-born ex-player obviously did not envisage when he...