DARE TO DREAM. WE DARED TO DREAM AND WE DID IT.
Hungary 2-2 Great Britain after regulation and GB's point sends them to the top flight of World Championship ice hockey with back-to-back gold medals.
OH MY WORD. WOW!
Final score: USA 6-3 Great Britain. What a performance from the boys and what unbelievable support from our amazing fans. We ran one of the best teams in the world so close. A night everyone in GB should be very proud.
💙 Great Britain ice hockey and IHUK are devastated that forward Mike Hammond has passed away. Hammond died last night in a car accident in Canada. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all team-mates. RIP Hammy - we will never forget you.
👉
59:44 - GOOOOALLLLLLLLLLL GB OH MY WORD. Robert Farmer sneaks the puck under the netminder and GB are 15.8 seconds away from the top tier. Hungary 2-2 GB
🇬🇧 THE UK WILL HOST THE 2023 MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION I GROUP A 🇬🇧
Teams: Great Britain, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Romania
Venue: Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
Dates: 29th April to 5th May 2023.
We are pleased to confirm that after receiving a puck to the face during the game, our equipment manager
@Taff2520
is fighting fit and back at it.
#Warrior
Congratulations to our very own GB forward Liam Kirk
@kirky_1424
who has finished as joint-leading goalscorer at year's World Championship. The 21-year-old scored seven goals in seven matches, which was the same tally as Canada's Andrew Mangiapane.
🇬🇧🇬🇧
@kirky_1424
Liam Kirk has also just been named onto the all-star team. Congrats Kirky. Everyone is very proud of you...
All-Star team...
GK: Jussi Olkinuora (FIN)
DE: Korbinian Holzer (GER)
DE: Moritz Seider (GER)
FW: Andrew Mangiapane (CAN)
FW: Conor Garland (USA)
FW: Liam Kirk (GBR)
MATCH REPORT: Great Britain secured their top-flight World Championship status with a dramatic 4-3 overtime victory over France in their final game at the World Championship.
Liam Kirk scored twice as Great Britain produced another stunning performance as they beat Belarus 4-3 in the Group A of the
@iihfhockey
@2021iihfworlds
in Latvia.
😍 "A moment for the ages"
Relive THAT moment again as it happened
Listen to the pure euphoria in the voices of
@MurphOnIce
and Paul Adey
Just WOW 👏👏👏
#IIHFWorlds
FINAL SCORE....
Switzerland 6-3 Great Britain
Another superb performance from your GB boys against another one of the world's best team.
You should be proud of every single member of this team.
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Ice Hockey UK and the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham are honoured to announce that the venue will host a stage of the qualifiers for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
😍 THANK YOU JONO - A GREAT BRITAIN LEGEND 😍
🇬🇧 Captain Jonathan Phillips will play his final Great Britain game today and move onto 116 caps.
Read about his GB career 👉
🇬🇧 GB TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT 🇬🇧
Great Britain Head Coach Pete Russell has named his 25-player squad for the 2022 IIHF World Championship in Finland.
Read more...
Great Britain Under-20s have unveiled their captaincy team for the upcoming World Championship Division II Group A tournament in Tallinn.
Liam Kirk will captain the side while Jordan Kelsall and Chad Smith have been named as the alternate captains.
Great Britain and Ice Hockey UK would like to send our condolences to the family, friends and team-mates of Alex Graham who passed away at the weekend.
This is a difficult time for so many people and our thoughts are with everyone affected by this devastating news.
RIP Alex.
🍊🏒 The Steelers are devastated to advise that Alex Graham sadly passed away this weekend.
Everyone at the club is heartbroken by the news and wish to pass on our thoughts and condolences to Alex's family, friends and teammates.
More:
#BleedOrange
…
IT WASN'T A DREAM - Re-live Great Britain's magical moment last night against France, hear what it meant to some of those involved and see some special behind-the-scenes moments.
Great Britain will face Canada, USA, Finland, Germany, hosts Slovakia, Denmark and France in Kosice next year in their first return to the top level of the World Championship since 1994.
Congratulations to Great Britain forward Liam Kirk
@kirky_1424
who has signed a three-year
@NHL
entry-level deal with
@ArizonaCoyotes
, as reported by agent Dan Milstein
@HockeyAgent1
this morning.
Everyone is so proud of you Kirky!
Read more...
😍 So, the
@keeperofthecup
surprised the Great Britain dressing room earlier this afternoon with one of the most famous trophies in the world.
It was an honour to have it with us.
GB UNDER-20S WIN SILVER!!!
Japan U20s beat Lithuania U20 5-2 in Vilnius
Congratulations to Japan with the gold medal and promotion - and well done to Lithuania with their bronze medal
💙 You'll never be forgotten Hammy 💙
Hundreds of friends, family and team-mates gathered yesterday for a Celebration of Life service for Mike Hammond in Canada.
Great Britain have moved up to 16th in the
@IIHFHockey
world rankings. It’s a jump of three places from their 2020 position of 19 and it’s their highest ranking since they were introduced by the IIHF in 2003.
Congratulations to Great Britain Women's Casey Traill
@CaseyTraill
, who has created history by becoming the first UK player to be drafted to the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL).
We are all so proud of you Casey.
Read more...
EXCITING NEWS...
Great Britain will face Team Canada (
@HC_Men
) in an international challenge game at the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
@nottinghamarena
on Tuesday 5th May 2020 (7:30pm face-off).
Great Britain 🇬🇧 literally sang "we're s***, and we know we are" after avoiding relegation with a 4-3 overtime win over France 🇫🇷 at the
#IIHFWorlds
🤭😂
Liam Kirk, Ben Bowns and Mark Richardson were named as Great Britain's official players of the
@IIHFHockey
@2021iihfworlds
World Championship. The trio were awarded special cufflinks after GB's final game in Group A against Switzerland.
MATCH REPORT...
Robert Farmer scored 15 seconds from time to secure Great Britain the point they needed to win the gold medal and promotion to play in the top level of the World Championship for the first time since 1994.
💙 At Mike Hammond's Celebration of Life service a video was played encapsulating what Hammy meant to us here at Great Britain.
👉
With thanks to Dave and Liam at
@visionmixprod
.
GB UNDER-20S WIN THE BRONZE MEDAL!!!
Estonia U20s beat Romania U20s 9-1 in the final game at the Under-20s World Championship Division II Group A in Tallinn, so GB will return with a third-placed finish.
#LionsPride
WOW - WE ARE GOING TO OVERTIME
Dowd, Perlini and Richardson score three goals in just over three minutes to take us to overtime. This team just doesn't know when it's beaten! Warriors!
What you feeling GB fans?
🇳🇴 Norway 3-3 GB 🇬🇧
The players have arrived at the hotel in Košice. A quick unpack and bite to eat, then it's down to the rink for media duties and their first practice skate.