If you had said at the start of the 2023/24 Champions Hockey League that the Belfast Giants could go into the last day of the league stage with a chance of reaching the round of sixteen, I would have said... Maybe this year, actually. It looked like Belfast could be competitive in at least some … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: HC Dynamo Pardubice
If you were to go out onto the streets of Belfast and ask the passers-by if they have ever seen The Magic Flute... The chances are you would get a colourful spectrum of answers. Salzburg's famous son and that opera's composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reputedly never got as far as Belfast. His music is everywhere … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: EC Red Bull Salzburg
HC Bolzano qualified for this season's Champions Hockey League by winning the ICEHL regular season, just falling short of completing a double in losing the Playoff final to EC Salzburg. They have had a busy pre-season, already playing six games with two further practice games scheduled at the time of writing. Their first two CHL … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: HC Bolzano Foxes
Happy Sepp-tember. We here at FC Hockey Media would like to fully endorse GC Kuss for La Vuelta at this time. If you're not watching La Vuelta, Sepp Kuss is the super-domestique for Jumbo-Visma, largely sacrificing his own race ambitions to help his team leader win the overall race (General Classification, hence GC). Last Saturday … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: Ain’t No Mountain Haie Enough
... Seriously though, La Vuelta a España 2023 may have had the most chaotic start to a Grand Tour ever. The organisers somehow forgot that the sun sets, with the first day's time trial stage ending in darkness. Top contender Remco Evenepoel was not amused. Torrential rain on day two led to the start-line being … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: Tappara Mornin’ to Ya
What a race it was. The top teams going hammer and tongs against each other until all but one finally cracked. Mountains of fans watching stages that repeatedly hosted sporting theatre. All culminating with an undisputed champion. For now. Looking to the season ahead is even more mouth-watering. Tadej Pogačar. Jonas Vingegaard. Juan Ayuso? ...Mark … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: Rauman Through Europe
A perfect run through their Challenge Cup group has given the Belfast Giants a seven-game winning streak when you include their 3-2 Champions Hockey League overtime win against reigning Czech Extraliga champions Oceláři Třinec. Which is very much worth including. Again, that is the current three-time and counting Czech Extraliga champions Oceláři Třinec. Not too … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: Skellefteå AIK
After travelling home from their first clash with HC Oceláři Třinec, the Giants can look forward to a few days rest, maybe ease out the knots... Nope. A second game in three days awaits the Giants against one of the most well known clubs in Europe. HC Davos One of my first introductions to European … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: HC Davos
Two minutes. That's all it took for Bobby Farnham to lift the roof off a crackling SSE Arena against Liberec. The second period took a wee bit longer. Organised chaos. Like something from Slapshot, if you asked the Bílí Tygři coach. I don't remember seeing Curtis Hamilton's world class snipe in Slapshot mind. Winning that … Continue reading Giants Go Beyond: HC Oceláři Třinec
From Glamour to Glasgow What. Look I like Glasgow, I do, but I have now been soaked in both Glasgow and Augsburg, and the rain didn't attack me from the ground up in Augsburg. The Clan have also never given me free food. German beer tents. Currywurst. Apple strudel shots. These are my metrics. Ohh, … Continue reading We’ll Have A Night… The 2019-20 Belfast Giants Season Part Two: Four Point Fortnights
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