It is playoff time as today we kickstart our post season campaign by hosting the Deeside Dragons 2 in the first leg of the Quarter-Finals.

As a reminder, this is a two leg quarter final meaning the team with the most goals over the two games will advance to the semi-finals. Should this evening's game finish as a tie, the result will stand and will be carried over into tomorrows game. However, should it be tied on aggregate tomorrow upon completion of regulation time, overtime will follow to decide a winner.

Tonight's game is a 18:30 faceoff and all tickets can be purchased on the door alongside our 50/50 raffle which can be purchased on the door, also. Our confirmed ticket prices for tonight are:

NIHL Blaze vs Deeside Dragons 2

Playoff Quarter Final - Leg 1

Saturday 28th March 2026

18:30 Faceoff

Skydome Arena

Early Team News

The NIHL Blaze will go into tonight's game with similar injury trouble as they were in towards the latter end of the season with Captain Daniel Kent and Nick Alley being just two of the players missing out this evening.

Although, all is not lost as tonight we welcome back Joel Gavigan from injury and Jack McKay has been granted special dispensation to ice in this years playoffs.

Zac Baker also enters the line-up to make his NIHL Playoffs debut.

Arthur Brookes remains the team's captain with Ryan James and Joel Gavigan wearing the A's. Laverick and Chester are our goaltending duo for this evenings game.

Other Playoff Fixtures

Here are the other fixtures being played out this evening in the Laidler Division:

Sheffield Titans (2) v Kingston Sh