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Tony Hand: A Life In British Ice Hockey

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Great Britain’s greatest days on the ice came in the 1930s, crowned by Olympic gold in 1936. Since World War II, though, appearances in the top division have been fleeting. Prior to last season’s survival sensation in Slovakia, the Brits had not appeared in the top division since 1994 and had not won a game at that level since 1962. With patchy records of many of the players of the 30s and 40s – and even the team of 1962 – this list necessarily has a modern bias.

He made his senior debut on 20 September 1981, at the age of fourteen against the Fife Flyers when the Murrayfield Racers had a player shortage. [1] He gained his first point against the Billingham Bombers on 17 October 1981, with an assist to a Chris Kelland goal. He finished the 1981/82 season having played 19 games, scoring 4 goals and adding 7 assists for 11 points. He followed it up the following year with 20 goals and 22 assists, a total of 42 points, in 24 games.It’s not cheap bringing this Podcast to you, that’s why I’ve chosen to use Patreon to ask for donations to keep the Podcast going. Plus I’ll be continually posting to Patreon, Videos and Podcasts that are exclusive to You, my Patrons. Podnieks, Andrew (25 April 2017). "A league of their own: IIHF Hall of Fame names 20th induction class". IIHF . Retrieved 22 March 2019.

Tony Hand was born on 15 August, 1967 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Discover Tony Hand's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old? Popular As Forgive us if we write some of the figures here again as they are frankly astounding: 1,748 games played, 1,642 goals scored, 2,992 assists, 4,634 points. And this is just in domestic games in the major competitions. We’ve had to omit, for reasons of space, European Cup games, junior GB internationals, Scottish Cups, GB friendlies, and on and on. During the close season, Hand trained with Geneve-Servette and was offered a contract as their fourth import, but in the top Swiss league which allowed only three imports to play in game, he turned it down. Instead he returned to Murrayfield where, in an indifferent year, he scored 114 goals and 162 assists in 49 games, including his 1,000th point and 500th goal. You should provide all of the information requested insofar as it is available to you. A minimum set of information needs to be provided before a record can be saved. started badly for Hand with an eight-game ban for a drug offence when a cold remedy gave a positive result for traces of ephedrine. However, the domestic season got better for him personally as he was awarded a place on the All-Star team and was voted Players' Player of the Year. He was also the League's top scorer with 60 goals and 80 assists in 36 games and captained the Scotland side that beat England 7–6 in the 49th Home International, scoring three of the goals. For the Murrayfield team though, the season was full of controversy and disappointment which ended without qualifying for the play-offs.After a disappointing second season with Dundee, Tony took the opportunity to return home to Edinburgh. That season he coached his Capitals team to third place in the BNL, their highest ever League position. The Edinburgh Capitals also won the Scottish Capitol Cup, ironically beating his former Dundee Stars team. Tony Hand MBE Willie Dunn comes to the Warriors after being Managing Director of Murrayfield Racers for two years, working alongside Hand.

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