Berkshire Bees Fans

   Last life for playoff hopes Bees first shut out of the season and pipped to the post in Swindon  A visit to Swindon on Saturday night saw the Bees in a tight encounter with the Wildcats. Period one ended 1-1, Dan Rose scoring the first goal of the game assisted by Luke Jackson and  Adam Rosbottom who has returned to the Bees line up after leave for his role in the RAF. Wildcats were to edge 2-1 in front by the end of the second and went a goal further ahead in the third on the powerplay. Bees brought themselves back to one goal behind with a brilliant goal scored by Dom Gabaj assisted by Will Stead  but were unable to find the game tying goal with the final score of 3-2 ending the game in favour of Swindon. Gossy stood firm in the net all evening, preventing many good goal scoring opportunities for the Wildcats.   Sunday saw the Bristol Pitbulls visit Slough. Both teams are evenly matched with 3 of their last 4 meetings going into overtime, tonight was t...

  A point in Bristol and Phantoms edge the Bees One point out of four, but it could of been more Bees earned a point in Bristol on Saturday night as they took the Pitbulls to overtime after the teams tied at 5-5 at the end of the third. Bees goals were courtesy of Will Stead (2), Dominik Gabaj, Juha Lindgren and Josh Smith. Sadly for the Bees, Pitbulls were to score the vital overtime goal and earn themselves that all important second point. Sunday saw Phantoms visit Slough and take away the two points, the scoreline 3-2 in Phantoms favour. Sadly Bees goals from Jack Goodchild and Juha Lindgren were not to be enough. Player of the Weekend Results This week's player of the weekend was  Harvey Stead  with 42% of the vote, Jack Goodchild gave close competition coming second with 37%. Many congratulations to Harvey. Who will be up for the vote this weekend? You can view all our player of the weekend winners from the last 2 seasons here:  Bees IHC Fans Database Coming up ...

   Must win game in Bristol followed by a visit from the Phantoms Mixed fortunes last weekend Raiders visited the Slough Ice Arena on Saturday night and the two teams provided us with an exciting contest. Raiders are a stronger opposition compared to last season so this was never going to be an easy game. Having said that, Bees were always in control and had a 2-0 lead by the end of the first with goals scored by Ryan Webb and Will Stead. Bees were to increase their lead in the second and we knew it wouldn't be long before Brendan Walkom had the puck in the net. Raiders were able to score their first of the night before the end of the period, a tied period and a scoreline of 3-1 going into the third. The final period saw a huge effort from Raiders to reduce the deficit and, despite some great saves from Matt Smital, Raiders scored their second goal of the evening with 5.07 remaining. The inevitable Raiders timeout followed with less than 2 minutes remaining and as expected Eth...

   Wildcats too good and Bison edge 15 goal thriller A tough weekend, Bees score 10 goals with no points to show for it Bees ventured down the M4 to Swindon on Saturday evening with the hope of coming away with two points. The Bees have a good record against the Wildcats this season and on their last visit to the Link Centre, although short benched, Bees came away with the win. Sadly all hopes of a repeat result were dashed as the Wildcats already had five goals before Bees were able to find the back of the net. Bees best period was the third, having come back from the second period break 6-1 down, Bees turned up the pace and found themselves within 3 goals by 47.26, Luke Jackson and Brendan Walkom adding to James Galazzi's second period goal. Wildcats did enough to contain the Bees for the last ten minutes and secure the 2 points with the final score 6-3. Stuart Mogg was man of the match for the Bees, his assist on the Bees first goal of the night was superb. Sunday night saw...

  Robbed by the Tigers and Phantoms good form continues One point out of four but should have been more The Tigers came to tea on Saturday evening and given their poor form of late we had hopes that the points were Bees for the taking. Tigers new import, Rory Hermann, was debuting for the team and Bees saw the eagerly awaited return of Josh Martin from injury, James Galazzi returned from suspension but sadly Alan Lack was absent from the line up. Although Tigers were the first to score the Bees found themselves 2-1 up at the end of the first period courtesy of a brace from Brendan Walkom. Tigers brought the game back to 2-2 half way through the second period before an altercation at the Tigers net between Josh Martin and Brad Day (Tigers n/m) and a melee of other Tigers saw Bees given a 5 on 3 opportunity and who should net for the Bees?, Brendan Walkom scoring his hat trick goal.   Period 3 saw the Tigers push for the equaliser and a Tigers timeout called at 57.54 saw Br...

   Bees pick up points in 3 of last 4 games Two out of four points for rejuvenated Bees Bees welcomed Wildcats to Slough for a rare Friday evening fixture. Apparently the Wildcats are not a fan of Friday night games, as they have very little success on this day of the week and fortunately for the Bees this fixture was to be no different for Aaron Nell and co. Bees were to come out all guns firing and were 3-0 up at the end of the first period courtesy of Brendan Walkom, Dominik Gabaj and Juha Lindgren. Bees were to add another goal in the second period, Harvey Stead with a cracking goal allowing the Bees a 4 goal cushion at the end of the period. The first half of the third period saw Bees take a couple of minor penalties which they killed but then Dom was to head to the box for a cross check timed at 52.18 and finally the Wildcats were able to put something on the score sheet. Colby Tower found the net but it took a lot of discussion by the officials and input from the goal j...

Probably the best weekend so far this season Back to two imports, having our coach on the bench and a three point weekend We had all been counting the games until Dominik Gabaj could return to the Bees lineup following his 10 game suspension and in a way it was fitting that his first game back was an away fixture in Basingstoke which was the same rink he played his first ever game for the Bees. On his debut for the Bees he was impressive and the same could be said of this game too. Bees were to go into the period 1 break with a 1-0 lead courtesy of Lewis English . After the break, Bison were to draw the game level before Jack Goodchild gave the Bees the lead again on his debut, This period saw the most blatant too many men on the ice not get called against the Bison, it was obvious to everyone other than the officials and Bison couldn't believe their luck. The period ended 2-1 to the Bees. Period 3 was a tight affair with Bison throwing everything they could at the Bees net. Bees w...