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09/05/2012
The NZIHF has received a
donation of
Taktifoi.
This is a coaching aid. White
plastic film with drawing of an
ice rink on with a charge that
sticks them to the outside of
the rink glass. Coaches use
whiteboard pens to draw plays on
the glass inside the rink. For
an NZIHF member discount use
code takti5.
More information here.
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06/05/2012
Applications
are invited for the following
positions;
- Ice Blacks (Manager, Assistant Manager, Assistant Coach)
- Ice Fernz (Manager, Assistant Manager, Coach, Assistant Coach)
-
National U16 Development
Team (Assistant
Manager, Assistant Coach)
More information here...
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27/04/2012

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19/04/2012
The 2012 NZ
Ice Blacks were dismissed from
Division IIA by
an unrelenting Serbia in their
last game at the IIHF Division
IIA World Championships last night.
More
info here...

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12/04/2012
The NZ
Ice Blacks have finished their
training in Austria and have
travelled to Reykjavik, Iceland
to compete in the IIHF Division
IIA World Championships 12-18 April 2012.
Games will be televised live
here
http://www.ruv.is/beint .The
Ice Blacks first game is against
Iceland on "BLACK FRIDAY".
More
information here...
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03/04/2012
The NZ
Ice Blacks have left New Zealand
for their training camp in
Europe. They will be competing
in the IIHF Division IIA World
Championships in Reykjavik,
Iceland 12-18 April 2012.
More
information here.

Members of the 2012 New Zealand
Ice Blacks at the airport.
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01/04/2012
The NZ Ice
Fernz have finished in fourth
place after losing 1-5 to
Hungary this morning in their
final game at the IIHF Women's
Div IIA World Championship in
Maribor, Slovenia.
More
information here .....
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19/03/2012
The NZ Under
18 team won silver in the IIHF U18 Div
IIIA World Championship in Sofia
Bulgaria (12-18 March), after
losing to 3-8 to Belgium in the
final. Kahu Joyce won the
tournament best defence man
award.
More
information including daily
reports here .....
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16/03/2012
The NZ Ice
Fernz departed New Zealand for
their training camp in Austria. They will compete in the IIHF
Women's
Div IIA World Championship in
Maribor, Slovenia 25-31 March 2012.
More information
here.

Members of
the 2012 Ice Fernz en-route to
Austria
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29/02/2012
The NZ Under
18 team have departed for
Austria for a training camp
prior to competing in the IIHF
U18 Div IIIA World Championship
in Sofia Bulgaria (12-18 March).
More
information including daily
reports here .....

Members of
the 2012 NZ U18 team at Auckland
Airport.
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03/02/2012
The NZ Ice
Blacks Head Coach Andy Kaisser
is pleased to announce the
2012
Ice Blacks Team. The
team will compete in the IIHF
Open Div IIA World Championship
in Reykjavik, Iceland - 12-18
April 2012 . More information
here.
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27/01/2012
The NZIHF
Junior Girls Development Camp
was held in Christchurch in
January.

More photos here.
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27/01/2012
The NZIHF
2012 U13 & U16 Summer
Development Camp was held at
Paradice Avondale, Auckland
from 21-25 January 2012.
We would like to thank all
coaches, parents and helpers to
make this camp a successful and
enjoyable time again.
Feedback from parents and
participants including suggested
improvements is invited. Please
send feedback to Grant Hay by
email -
president@nzicehockey.co.nz.

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24/01/2012
The New
Zealand Under 20 Team took the
bronze medal in the IIHF Under
20 Div III Worlds. The event
web site is here, and for
other comments visit the team
facebook page here.
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20/01/2012
Libby-Jean Hay
finished 8th and and
Callum Burns 3rd equal (4th on
countback) in the finals their
respective events last night.
These are fantastic results for
New Zealand. Full results women
here and men
here.
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20/01/2012
INNSBRUCK – Libby-Jean Hay is
an unlikely story - a
17-year-old ice hockey player
from New Zealand - a nation
where ice hockey takes a back
seat to sports like rugby and
swimming. She was competing in
the recent Youth Olympic Games
Ice Hockey Skills Challenge and
took time out to visit with
IIHF.com.
Video here....
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11/01/2012
Follow the
progress of the New Zealand
Under 16 team on tour in
Australia. For daily reports
from Head Coach Andrew Hay go to
the U16 home
page here....
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22/12/2011

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28/11/2011
The NZ Ice
Fernz Head Coach Corey Down
is pleased to announce the
2012
Ice Fernz Team. The
team will compete in the IIHF
Women's
Div IIA World Championship in
Maribor, Slovenia 25-31 March 2012.
More information
here.
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02/11/2011
The inaugural Youth Olympic
Winter Games will take place in
less than three months’ time and
New Zealand will be well
represented. New Zealand’s first athletes
selected to the 2012 Winter
Youth Olympic Team will be part
of this exciting new event which
will see over 1,000 of the
world's best 14-18 year olds
contest all winter Olympic
sports.
Thirteen of New Zealand’s
finest young winter talent have
been named into the team and a
further two are expected to join
the Team as qualifications
continue until mid-December.
Among the athletes named are
Olivia Thomson (biathlon), David
Weyer (curling), Eleanor
Adviento (curling), Kelsi Heath
(curling) Luke Steele (curling),
Callum Burns (ice hockey),
Libby-Jean Hay (ice hockey),
Beau-James Wells (freeski),
Hamish Bagley (snowboard), Harry
Izard-Price (alpine), Piera
Hudson (alpine), Samantha Poots
(freeski) and Tim Herbert
(snowboard).
More....
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10/10/2011
The NZIHF
2012 U13 & U16 Summer
Development Camp will be held at
Paradice Avondale, Auckland
21-25 January 2012.
Registration forms and more
information available here.
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20/08/2011
The NZ Under
20 Head Coach Stephen Reid
is pleased to announce the
2012 Under
20 Team. The team
will compete in the IIHF Under 20
Div III World Championship in Dunedin
15-22 January 2012.
More information
here.
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15/09/2011
The NZIHF is
pleased to announce the
NZ U16
Development Team to travel
to Australia from the 8-15
January 2012.
More...
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13/09/2011
The NZIHF is
pleased to announce the
selection squad for the 2012 Ice Blacks.
The 2012 Ice Blacks team will be
selected from this squad in
February 2012 and will compete
in the 2012 IIHF Division IIA
Championships to be held in
Reykjavik, Iceland on the 12-18
March 2012.
More
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13/09/2011
Listen to
NZIHF Communications Manager
George Pilgrim talk about New
Zealand Ice Hockey on "Ice
Hockey Internet Radio". Look for
Blogtalkradio on this web site.
George is featured about 20
minutes into this broadcast.
Select the item shown, then "the
play arrow".

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08/09/2011
To the Ice Hockey Nations of
Russia, Belarus, Canada, Czech
Republic, Germany, Latvia,
Slovakia, Sweden and Ukraine.
On
behalf of the New Zealand Ice
Hockey Federation we extend our
deepest sympathies to families,
friends and colleagues of the
players that were involved in
the recent tragic
air disaster.
You are all
in our thoughts and prayers at
this sad time.
Grant Hay
(President)
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06/09/2011 - www.iihf.com
Melbourne's icing on the cake.
Australia, New Zealand celebrate
champs, join together for TTCL.
MELBOURNE/AUCKLAND – Melbourne
Ice in Australia and the Botany
Swarm in New Zealand defended
their titles as the hockey
season in the southern
hemisphere came to an end.
More...
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04/08/2011
In the final
round of the NZJEL
in Dunedin this weekend the
Northern U16 team defeated Southern U16 team
in two of their three games -
3-6, 9-2, 11-2 and took the 2011
NZJEL Title in convincing style.
2011 League
awards went to;
League
MVP - Frazer Ellis (Auckland)
Best
Forward - Callum Burns
(Southern)
Best
Defence - Richard Dawson
(Auckland)
Best
Goalkeeper - Firth Bidois
(Auckland)
Top
Points Scorer - Frazer Ellis
(Auckland)
MVP
Auckland - Scott Randall
MVP
Southern - Lachlan Frear
MVP
Canterbury - Liam Dallimore


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04/09/2011
Ice Hockey
(Australia) shoots, and scores
It will be
standing room only at the
Melbourne Icehouse
for the
Australian Ice Hockey
League Goodall Cup
finals this weekend. Not a big
deal, you might say, in a venue
that holds only 1000 seats.
But until
two years ago, to watch the
Melbourne Ice battle Newcastle,
Sydney and Adelaide teams for
the national title, you would
have been travelling to a grungy
suburban outpost to sit with
maybe a couple of hundred
diehards.
More
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03/09/2011
The North
Island maintained their unbeaten
record in the Skate of Origin
with an 8-6? win over the
South Island at Avondale
on Saturday night.
Game report here.
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31/08/2011 -
www.times.co.nz
Swarm secure fourth title
The skilful and stylish Botany
Swarm have maintained their
national dominance by collecting
their fourth New Zealand Ice
Hockey League championship title
in seven years.
More .....
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29/08/2011 -
www.odt.co.nz
Stampede beaten but proud
Southern Stampede coach Stephen
Reid is still a proud and
pleased man. He saw no reason to be too
despondent after seeing his side
beaten by the Botany Swarm in
the national ice hockey league
final in Auckland on Saturday
night. More ...
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28/08/2011
As expected
the Botany Swarm dispatched the
Southern Stampede 5-3 to take out
the 2011 New Zealand National Ice
League title.

The victorious
Botany Swarm.
(More photos of the NZIHL finals
here)
League prizewinners
were;
MVP Red
Devils - Kyle Papai
MVP Dunedin
Thunder - Cameron Frear
MVP West
Auckland Admirals - Blake Jackson
MVP Southern
Stampede - Simon Glass
MVP Botany
Swarm - KC Ball
MVP League
- Gino Heyd - Dunedin Thunder
MVP Finals
- Alexandr Polozov - Botany Swarm
Top Points
Scorer - Chris Eaden - Canterbury
Red Devils
Best Defenseman
- Daniel Nicholls - Canterbury Red
Devils
Top Goalkeeper
- Zak Nothling - Botany Swarm
Top Rookie
- Jerreau Hohaia - Canterbury Red
Devils
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20/08/2011 -
www.odt.co.nz
Losing Ice Blacks give improved
performance
New Zealand
was beaten but not disgraced when
it went down to Australia in ice
hockey for the second time yesterday.
The strong Australian team completed
a clean sweep of the Winter Games
when it beat New Zealand 4-1 in
a tightly fought final at the Dunedin
Ice Stadium.
More...
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20/08/2011
Australia Win Gold with 4-1 defeat
of NZ
Australia has
claimed back the gold medal from
New Zealand's national ice hockey
team at the 2011 New Zealand Winter
games with a 4-1 win in the Grand
Final. Australia's stacked side
of Australian Ice Hockey League
stars went undefeated through the
tournament, but were pressed by
a physical and energetic "Ice Blacks",
keeping the Aussie's honest throughout
the Kia Motors Winter Games Final.
More...
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20/08/2011
The Ice Blacks
won 6-1 against China at the 100%
Pure New Zealand Winter Games tonight
and will face Australia in the final
tomorrow.
Winter games photos here.
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19/08/2011
Australia Seals Final Spot with
8-2 Defeat of the Ice Blacks at
the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter
Games
Australia have
ensured they will play in Sunday's
Final at the 2011 New Zealand Winter
Games after their second of two
round robin victories, a 8-2 defeat
of New Zealand's "Ice Blacks".

Australia had
outscored New Zealand 7-1 in the
first two periods, but an increased
level of physicality and effort
for the Ice Blacks kept the final
period fairly even, a good sign
with New Zealand likely to defeat
the Chinese Saturday night in the
lone semi-final.
More...
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18/08/2011 -
www.odt.co.nz
Third-period blitz key to NZ victory
It was blitzkrieg
attack by the Ice Blacks in the
third period when they scored five
goals to beat China 8-3 last night
at the Dunedin Ice Stadium.
More...
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17/08/2011
Join the Ice
Fernz at women's development camps
to be held in the North and South
Islands in September 2012. Women
players aged 12+ are invited to
attend either
9-11 September - Auckland (Botany)
or
24-25 September - Dunedin.
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17/08/2011 -
www.odt.co.nz
China arriving late for opening
game
The winter weather
has disrupted the China Ice Hockey
team travel plans.
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17/08/2011
The 2011 100%
Pure New Zealand Winter Games -
Ice Hockey gets underway with New
Zealand vs China at 7:00pm this
evening in Dunedin.
See the Ice Hockey program here.
More information about the Winter
Games here.
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15/08/2011
The NZ Under
18 Head Coach (Jonathan Albright)
is pleased to announce the
2012 New Zealand Under 18 team
to compete in the IIHF Under 18
World Championships (Div IIIA) in
Sofia, Bulgaria 12-18 March 2012.
More information
here.
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14/08/2011
Auckland dominated
the Womens and Under 13 grades winning
gold at their 2011 National Championships
in Christchurch over the weekend.
In the Under 19 grade Southern won
gold after close games, including
4 drawn games.
Full details, honours board and
game sheets here.
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23/08/2011 -
www.odt.co.nz
Time spent in NZ everything expected
- and more
Dunedin Thunder
import player J Bertrand comments
on his season in the NZIHL league.
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08/08/2011 -
www.times.co.nz
Swarm abuzz about final.
Swarm captain
Andrew Hay says the competition
and standard of play in the league
has increased and improved this
year, because of the “higher level
of imports [foreign-born players]
spread through the teams, and local
players are all wiser, older, bigger
and stronger”.
More...
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20/07/2011
Ice Hockey Teams
from New Zealand, Austtalia
and China will compete in Dunedin
in the 2011 100% Pure New Zealand
Winter Games to be held in the lower
South Island 13-28 August.
More information here.
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17/07/2011
The Alexandra
Flames won the 2011 SNC National
Championship in Alexandra defeating
the Dunedin Outlaws in the final
7-1.

Game results
were Alexandra Flames 19, Gore Grizzlies
0; Queenstown Jurassics 1, Dunedin
Outlaws 4; Alexandra Flames 6, Dunedin
Outlaws 1; Queenstown Jurassics
12, Gore Grizzlies 1; Alexandra
Flames 5, Queenstown Jurassics 0;
Dunedin Outlaws 7, Gore Grizzlies
2.
Goalie of the
tournament – Reece Cunliffe of the
Alexandra Flames with 94.87 %
MVP – Richard
McCutcheon of the Alexandra Flames
Best Defence
– Sophia Leon de la Barra of the
Dunedin Outlaws
Best forward
– Chris Sangster of the Alexandra
Flames
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10/07/2011
New Zealand
entries Callum Burns (Queenstown)
finished second male and Libby-Jean
Hay (Auckland) fourth female
in the Global Skills Challenge held
as part of the
IIHF Annual Development Camp from
6-10 July in Vierumaki, Finland
over the weekend and by finishing
in the top 15 of the 28 countries
competing have each earned entry
to the 2012 Youth Olympic Winter
Games in Innsbruck, Austria in January.
Full NZIHF press release
here. More information about
the boys final
here, girls finals
here and background information
on the skills challenge
here.
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24/6/2011
The New Zealand
teams participating in 2011 Friendship
Tournament in Hudson are posting
interesting results. In the spirit
of friendship points are deducted
for each penalty. See how the Auckland
Aces, Canterbury Kiwis and Southern
Knights are faring under this system
here.
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14/06/2011
The New Zealand
Ice Hockey Federation would like
to gratefully acknowledge the help
of NZI in assisting the Christchurch
Friendship Team who missed connecting
flights as a result of the Christchurch
earthquake. With the help of Jane
Armstrong (Auckland Claims Manager)
the team was rebooked and able to
make the tournament before it started.
Three teams from New Zealand are
participating
in the 2011 Friendship Tournament
in Hudson, Wisconsin, USA. They
are the Auckland Aces, the Canterbury
Kiwis and the Southern Knights.
More information on the history
of the
Friendship Tournament here.
Press release
with tournament details in the
Hudson Star-Observer here.
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