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Deeside Dragons | ||||
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City | Queensferry | |||
League | NIHL | |||
Conference | Division 1 North | |||
Founded | 2012 | |||
Operated | 2012 - present | |||
Home arena | Deeside Leisure Centre | |||
Colors | Red, Green & Black | |||
General manager | Shaun Bebbington | |||
Head coach | Mike Clancy | |||
Captain | James Parsons | |||
Media | Jakob Forster | |||
Website | https://dragonsihc.com/ | |||
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Championships | ||||
Conference titles | 1 (2015/16) | |||
Playoff championships | 1 (2015/16) |
The Aspray Chester Deeside Dragons are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the National Ice Hockey League, north division. They play their games at Deeside Leisure Centre, Flintshire, and replaced the previous team Flintshire Freeze. They won the North League championship in the 2015/16 season, with a record of 24-3-1 as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs. For the 2022/23 season the club has Aspray Chester as the clubs title sponsor.
The 2022/23 season sees the return of ice hockey to North Wales for the first time in over 2 years, due to the ice rink being used as a field hospital and later a vaccination centre for North East Wales.
In July 2015 it was reported that the Dragons had been bought by Red Hockey Limited, a British Company who own the Telford Tigers English Premier League Ice Hockey team as well as having stakes in Manchester Phoenix and Bracknell Bees.
In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and Flintshire County Council which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents Widnes Wild walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game. Dragons player Alex Roberts received a three-game ban as a result of this incident.
In July 2016 it was announced that Scott McKenzie had left the Widnes Wild to join the Dragons as player-coach. He left the following year.
At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.
Season-by-season record
Season | Position | Wins | Draws | Losses | ± |
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2012-13 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 88 |
2013-14 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 61 |
2014-15 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 31 |
2015-16 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 132 |
2017-18 (NIHL1) | 10 | 2 | 0 | 32 | -347 |
2018-19 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 21 | -43 |
2019-20 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
Club roster 2022-23
(*) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)
Netminders | |||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Catches | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | ||
30 | Philip Pearson | L | (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 (age 37) | Stockport, England | 2022 from Bradford Bulldogs | 22/23 | |||
37 | Michael Rogers | L | (1997-08-17) 17 August 1997 (age 27) | Warrington, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 |
Defencemen | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
11 | Billy Perks | 2001 (age 21) | Wales | 2022 | 22/23 | |||||
13 | Matthew Wainwright | L | (1993-11-19) 19 November 1993 (age 31) | Chester, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
14 | Reece Cairney-Witter | L | (1995-02-14) 14 February 1995 (age 29) | Bradford, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
15 | Lewis Otley | R | (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 (age 25) | Sheffield, England | 2022 from Malungs IF | 22/23 | ||||
19 | Joshua Richardson | R | 1998 (age 24) | Chorley, England | 2022 from Bradford Bulldogs | 22/23 | ||||
21 | Micheal Jones | R | (1981-09-04) 4 September 1981 (age 43) | England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
55 | Ross Kennedy | R | (1998-01-30) 30 January 1998 (age 26) | St Asaph, Wales | 2022 from Leeds Knights | 22/23 | ||||
91 | Marc Lovell | L | (1982-06-02) 2 June 1982 (age 42) | Chester, England | 2012 from Flintshire Freeze | 22/23 |
Forwards | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
4 | Charlie Spridgeon | 2001 (age 21) | England | 2022 from Telford Tigers 2 | 22/23 | |||||
5 | James Parsons 'C' | L | (1987-09-22) 22 September 1987 (age 37) | St Asaph, Wales | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
7 | Alex Parry | (1992-07-01) 1 July 1992 (age 32) | England | 2022 from Altrincham Aces | 22/23 | |||||
9 | Gary Dixon | R | (1986-06-08) 8 June 1986 (age 38) | Liverpool, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
22 | Karl Bacon | Wales | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||||
23 | Simon Furnival | R | (1984-08-11) 11 August 1984 (age 40) | Warrington, England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
29 | Andy McKinney | R | (1991-04-13) 13 April 1991 (age 33) | Hamilton, ON, Canada | 2022 from Telford Tigers | 22/23 | ||||
33 | M.J. Clancy | L | (2000-06-17) 17 June 2000 (age 24) | Chester, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
61 | Jared Dickinson | R | (1994-09-17) 17 September 1994 (age 30) | Salford, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
72 | Chris Jones | R | (1988-05-25) 25 May 1988 (age 36) | Ely, England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
79 | Petr Valusiak* | L | (1986-09-07) 7 September 1986 (age 38) | Ostrava, Czechia | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
88 | Christopher Keating | 1988 (age 34) | England | 2022 from Altrincham Aces | 22/23 |
Team Staff | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Name | Acquired | Role | Place of birth | Joined From | ||||
Michael Clancy | 2022/23 | Head coach | Chester, England | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 | ||||||
Matt Compton | 2018/19 | Assistant coach | Chester, England | |||||||
David Clancy | 2022/23 | Goaltending Coach | Rinteln, Germany | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 | ||||||
Bruce Morton | 2014/15 | General Manager | England | |||||||
91 | Marc Lovell | 2016/17 | Player-Assistant Coach | Chester, England | ||||||
Charles Humphreys | 2022/23 | Equipment Manager | Wales | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 |
2021/22 Outgoing
Outgoing | ||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Leaving For |
References
- "Deeside Dragons at eliteprospects.com". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Powell, Dave (17 February 2016). "Deeside Dragons crowned Laidler Conference champions". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- "Aspray Chester Title Sponsors of Deeside Dragons".
- "Deeside Dragons Ice Hockey team bought by Red Hockey – Deeside.com". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- Porter, Gary (4 April 2016). "Watch Deeside ice hockey bust up that left player with head injury and saw one team walk off". Dailypost.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- Powell, Dave (14 July 2016). "Deeside Dragons appoint Scott McKenzie as new player/head coach". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.