Deeside Dragons
Ice hockey team in Queensferry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aspray Chester Deeside Dragons are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the National Ice Hockey League, north division.[1] 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[2] as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs. For the 2022/23 season the club has Aspray Chester [3] as the clubs title sponsor.
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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 | ![]() | |||
Head coach | Mike Clancy | |||
Captain | ![]() | |||
Media | Jakob Forster | |||
Website | https://dragonsihc.com/ | |||
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Championships | ||||
Conference titles | 1 (2015/16) | |||
Playoff championships | 1 (2015/16) |
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,[4] 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[2] 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.[5] 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.[6] He left the following year.
At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.