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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...