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The cover photo shows Stanley Cup and Olympic Medal winner, THEO FLEURY, parading the Elite League trophy, won by his team Belfast Giants.
Photo by Diane Davey (www.ddimaging.co.uk)
 


The Annual's 176 pages include ...

All the Honours & Awards for the 2005-06 season

The unique buidings in
Altrincham and Cardiff

International Round-up

World Championships - Britain's and Ireland's games

GB scoring records 1989-06

Continental Cup

Team photo, report and scoring statistics
from every major team

and much, much more ...
 


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THEO FLEURY
 Giant talent, giant temper

The most successful and certainly the most notorious professional player ever to come to this country joined Belfast Giants for the 2005-06 season.

Theo Fleury, 37, won an Olympic gold medal with Canada and a Stanley Cup with Calgary Flames, but he was also tossed out of the NHL for failing to stick with their drug rehabilitation scheme.

A genuine character then, though maybe not the best ambassador for the Elite League as it strived to be taken seriously.

All Fleury's talents were on display in Belfast, for better or for worse. \he led the league in scoring and was voted player of the year by the British Ice Hockey Writers Association and their most valuable player by the Giants. He was also the league's dirtiest player with 270 penalty minutes.

He was equally gifted in making controversial remarks - you can find a selection of his riper comments in the annual's Quotes of the Year section.

 


 

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Which team had the best total attendance figures
in the Elite League for 2005-06?
Belfast Giants
Nottingham Panthers
Sheffield Steelers

 

Homes of British Ice Hockey
 

Homes of British Ice Hockey

Martin C Harris, the sport's unofficial historian and a regular contributor to the Annual, has come up with a novel way of looking at the history of the game - describing all the UK buildings where it has been played.  

The book contains a wealth of information on each building, including team histories, statistical information, architectural details and many illustrations - a fascinating book for anyone with an interest in ice hockey.

Who top scored in the Elite League for Edinburgh Capitals ?
Dino Bauba
Tony Hand
Neil Stevenson-Moore

English Premier League
All-Star First Team

G - Pasi Raitanen - Sheffield
D - Paul Dixon - Guildford
D - Marian Smerciak - Guildford
F - Kyle Amyotte  - Romford
F - Gary Clarke - Milton Keynes
F - Claude Dumas - Telford
 

This edition of the Annual
includes Tributes to

Kenny Barnes
Jonathan Delisle
Joe Doyle
Phil Drackett
Dutch Hiller
Richard Kolisnyk
Hugh Morrison
Barrie Stevenson
Tod Thurston
Ross Tyrell
Jimmy Young
 

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Who won World Championship, Division I, Group A?
(Amiens, France 24-30 April 2006)
France
Germany
Great Britain
Hungary
Israel
Japan


 

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LATE NEWS - ELITE FIND A SPONSOR
On the Friday before August Bank Holiday 2006,
the Elite League announced that no-frills airline,
bmibaby, had agreed to be their title sponsor for
the next seven years.
No financial details were disclosed but the
Annual's sources said the deal was worth
around £50,000 a year in cash plus free flights.
The airline has airports near most of the
League's clubs.

 

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