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Marty returns a bit battered and bruised, and is joined this week by John. They chat about all things Fife and pride, look at Manchester's future, discuss the start of the winter Olympics, and finish with jerseys, this plus...

With Marty on the IRL, John takes the wheel and they almost immediately fall off! He's joined by Dave and Aaron to discuss the EIHL's new league standings after a woeful two weeks for Sheffield, Fife's management changes, EIHL Pride,...

It's the first episode of 2026, and in true Door 14 Hockey podcast, it's chaos! We chat the last month of action, DOPs decisions, upcoming conti cup, before tech issues send period 3 into reverse. Note: Sorry for the sound...

The last episode of 2025 is here before a very busy festive period. Marty and John look at the current Fife situation and possible signings, ongoing Olympic ice rink nightmares, the newly announced 3ICE world cup tournament, and of...

Another week, another podcast and the return of a familiar voice. This episode we look back at the last two weeks of action, chat DOPS, Challenge cup, olympic games, CHL, jersey releases and more. Why not check out the video...

Another week of Ice hockey action, and Martin and Aaron are back to look at all the stories. Challenge cup group stage complete, Déjà vu statements from Fife, Global expansion in the NHL, and a possible World Record challenge,...

Check out the guys' predictions for where the trophies land in 2025/26

Right, let’s be honest none of us thought this would last ten years. When we hit “record” on that very first Door 14 Hockey Podcast back in August 2015, it was just four mates (Marty, John, Dave, and Aaron)...

A running blog for the 2023 EIHL Playoff Final Weekend, where the Belfast Giants, Sheffield Steelers, Cardiff Devils and Nottingham Panthers will fight it out for the title of Playoff Champions.

Remember the last podcast when John siad he was mad enough to write a blog, well he did! Well done DoPS and EIHL!! We present for your enjoyment, “John’s Thoughts”.

The guys are off on an adventure to Las Vegas for John's Stag-Do, why not follow along!?

Listen in as John gets the chance to interview some excellent people in Kirkcaldy.

As the eve of real hockey is upon us and the EIHL gets started in earnest, we asked Marty, Aaron and Dave to have a look at the three conferences in the league and to have a go at...

"Hello Europe, EIHL calling!" The Cardiff Devils will see the puck drop competitively for the first time this season, in games that matter, and will be hoping to represent the league in the Champions Hockey League as well as Nottingham...

Its been a long (and finally a hot) summer, but as we see the schedule released and come close to the month-to-go mark for the start of the 2018-19 EIHL season, John has a few things that have been...

Our very own Dave is in New York! (not jealous). While there he is checking out a few NHL games (not jealous). Keep an eye on our twitter feed for live updates form him and also check out his...

As my adventure to the spiritual home country of hockey ends with me sat in seat 39G of Air Canada’s flight to London, I find myself at a loose end and able to start to reflect on what has...

  So, I’ve been in Canada a little under a week now and I’ve been to my first ever NHL game at the Bell Centre (Centre Bell to the native Québécois Montrealers) and so far the hockey experience here...

A few weeks ago, many of you will have read our prediction blogs on all three conferences.   Some of you may also have read the specific section in my (John’s) Erhardt Conference predictions blog concerning the Nottingham Panthers,...

It has been 25 years since District 5 skated onto our screens and became known worldwide as the Mighty Ducks. We watched in awe as Gordon Bombay lead a rag tag bunch of unlikely hockey players to not only...

  Last up we take a look at the last, and newest, conference in the form of the Patton Conference. We have already discussed the Patton conference with team fans and you can read that blog here. However let’s...

So we’ve seen the Gardiner Conference reviewer by Marty. This time around John turns the attention to the Erhardt Conference, or as many are calling it; the Arena Teams. The Belfast Giants, the Cardiff Devils, the Nottingham Panthers and the...

This is it, with only days to go to the official start to the Elite League season and our first podcast done and dusted, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the league...

With the first competitive games of the Hockey season coming in just over a weeks time, in the form of the CHL, we thought it would be a good time to look at the competition for the 2017/18 season....

With the start of the season just around the corner I thought it would be an idea to engage with some of the fans from around the league. So, I picked the Patton Conference as there was so much...

As the 2017/18 season kicks off, it’ll officially be 10 years since I arrived in Belfast from a small place called Fife (some of you may have heard of it). Nine years since I got to know Marty, around...

As I type this out we are only a few weeks away from the first games of a new season with the majority of Elite League teams taking on exhibition games in the lead up to the first day...

Tonight the Door14Hockey team got together for pints to talk about the 2017/2018 season ahead. This quickly turned out to be a coffee in a quite coffee shop as all the bars where buzzin (who knew a Friday night...

So, we finally got here....an actual Blog on the website! It’s taken us a bit of time and while we all love recording the podcast, but it’s taken us months to get one of us to sit down and type...