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Match Preview: NIHL Blaze vs MK Thunder

We take on MK Thunder for our first game of the season.

28 August 2025 at 17:13:38

Here we are again, it's hockey season and we are set to take to the ice for the first time in 2025/26 as we host MK Thunder in Pre-Season.


After the busiest summer the squad has had in a number of years, including a lot of roster turnover, our newly built squad is eager to get back onto the ice to realise it's potential. Seven newcomers will join the squad this season, strengthening ever area of the ice:


2 Nick Alley, Forward

7 Jack McKay, Defenseman

14 Daniel Retter, Defenseman

36 Owen Chester, Netminder

71 William Harrison, Defenseman

91 Connor McNaughton, Forward

97 Jordan Bloom, Forward


All seven players are set to make their season debut this Saturday, at the Skydome Arena.


Our opponents, MK Thunder, have also had a busy summer with a number of new players joining the squad from teams such as Solihull, Guildford, Nottingham, Haringey and more. Last season, the Thunder iced in 35 games, losing 34 of those and claiming the win in the other match. In that time, they scored fifty-three goals whilst conceding two-hundred and ninety-one.


Their top point scorer from last season, Xander Robinson is back with the squad after nine goals and seven assists last season, for sixteen points. Aaron Burton, their top performing netminder has also returned this season, posting a .884% save percentage in his games last season.


Two newly constructed sides, both looking to kick off the new season in style with a great game soon coming. Join us at the Skydome Arena on Saturday 30th August, 18:45 faceoff. Tickets are just £5, so bring a long a friend. All tickets purchased on the door.

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