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...

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.

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 .....  

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 ...

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

24/08/2011 - www.times.co.nz

Swarm chase fourth title

THE Botany Swarm have all the motivation to succeed when skating for their fourth national ice hockey league title in five years in this Saturday’s grand final at home. It’s all about pride. The Swarm are looking to build on an impressive league record over the past half-decade, and Botany produces more players than any of the other four league clubs that go on to represent New Zealand at international level for the Ice Blacks.  More ....

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...

07/08/2011

The Southern Stampede booked their place in the 2011 NZIHF finals with two wins over Dunedin Thunder over the weekend 7-3 and 8-4.  the Red Devils also won their two games over the West Auckland Admirals 7-2 and 9-5 and finished third in the league.

06/08/2011

The weekend has started well for the Stampede with a 7-3 win over Dunedin Thunder in the first of their two games while the Red Devils won over the Admirals 7-2 in their first game of the weekend.

03/08/2011 - www.odt.co.nz

Paris lured to team in France

Dunedin Thunder player Paris Heyd has signed a one year deal with a division 1 team in France. More....

01/08/2011 - www.odt.co.nz

Swarm completes double over Thunder

 With import forward Yvan Kernis having returned to France to trial for a Magnes team, the side missing two of its three goalies through injury, and having to face the top team in the national league, the odds were stacked against the Thunder at the Dunedin Ice Stadium on Saturday.   More....

31/07/2011

In the NZIHL Botany Swarm defeated the Dunedin Thunder twice over the weekend 6-5 and 12-2 and the Southern Stampede downed the West Auckland Admirals 6-1, and 6-3.

17/07/2011

 In the NZIHL Swarm downed the Admirals 5-1 on home ice at Botany and thus extended their overall lead in the NZIHL.

24/07/2011

Two winnwins apeaice to the Swam and Stampeded over the weekend

17/07/2011

 In the NZIHL Swarm downed the Admirals 5-1 on home ice at Botany and thus extended their overall lead in the NZIHL.

16/07/2011

Swarm held out the Admirals 5-3 on home ice at Botany and thus regained their overall lead in the NZIHL while in Queenstown Stampede rounded out their weekend with a second win against the the Red Devils 5-2..

15/07/2011

The Southern Stampede defeated the NZIHL leaders Red Devils 5-3 in front of a Queenstown home crowd, while in Alexandra the Alexandra Flames trashed the  Gore Grizzlies 19-0 in the opening game of the SNC Nationals.

10/07/2011

The Red Devils have taken the lead in the NZIHL after coming from behind to defeat Swarm 4-2 in Auckland. In Dunedin the Admirals improved to lose 7-6 in overtime to Thunder.

09/07/2011

The Red Devils were on fire with their goalie saving 51 shots to achieve a 1-0 win over Swarm in Auckland while Thunder trashed the Admirals 10-0 in Dunedin.

03/07/2011

The Red Devils rounded of the weekend with a second win defeating Thunder 7 - 4 in Christchurch and consolidated their second place to Swarm in the NZIHL.

02/07/2011

Botany Swarm continue to dominate the NZIHL with a second win over Stampede 7-4 in Queenstown whilst in Christchurch Red Devils moved to second in the league standings with an 8 - 4 win over Thunder.

01/07/2011

Southern Stampede was no match for Swarm going down  1 - 4 in a Friday game at the winter festival in Queenstown.

26/06/2011

Southern Stampede defeated Thunder 8-4 in what was a close game until Thunder fell apart in the second period. At Avondale the Devils toasted the Admirals 8 - 2.

25/06/2011

It was home team disaster Saturday today with Dunedin Thunder storming over Southern Stampede 7 -4 in front of a packed house in no snow Queenstown, while at Avondale the Red Devils scorched the Admirals 7-3. Two more games tomorrow,

12/06/2011

Swarm consolidated their lead in the League with a 7 - 1 sinking of the Admirals at Avondale tonight while in Christchurch the Red Devils fizzled out against a rampaging Stampede 1-6.

11/06/2011

In contrast to last weekend the game and results were much closer today. The Red Devils defeated the Stampede 3 -1 and the Swarm came from behind to triumph over  the Admirals 4 - 2.

9/06/2011 - www.times.co.nz

Swarm take an early lead

THE Botany Swarm have a commanding lead in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League (NZIHL) after three weekends of double-header clashes.

The 2010 league champions have pushed their record for this season to four wins and two losses, following their 9-3 and 12-3 defeats of the Dunedin Thunder last Saturday and Sunday, June 4 and 5, at Paradice Arena, Botany. This weekend, June 11 and 12, the Swarm have a tricky two-match programme away at Avondale against West Auckland Admirals, the side they defeated in last year’s championship final.  More ......

05/06/2011

In the NZIHL Swarm defeated Thunder with a crushing 13-3 win and positioned themselves as clear leaders in their league while in Queenstown the Admirals staked out a clear claim to the bottom of the league losing to Stampede in a close game 9-8.

04/06/2011

In the NZJEL the  Auckland U16 team opened its 2011 season with a 9-1 thumping of Southern in Queenstown this afternoon, while in Auckland the Botany Swarm dominated the Dunedin Thunder 9-3 in the NZIHL. In the Admirals vs Stampede game in Queenstown Stampede downed the Admirals 9 - 4.

29/05/2011

In Dunedin the Southern success continued with their U16 team defeating Canterbury 8-5 in the second NZJEL game of the 2011 Season while the Dunedin Thunder toughed it out thru overtime and 11 shots to take their NZIHL game 7-6. In Auckland the weekend Southern gold rush ended with a hard fought loss to Swarm 4-5.

28/05/2011

The Dunedin the Southern U16 team defeated Canterbury 7-4 in the first NZJEL game of the 2011 Season. Meanwhile in Auckland the Southern Stampede came from behind to down the Swarm 6-4 in a closely fought game and in Dunedin the Red Devils beat the Dunedin Thunder 7-4.

25/05/2011 - www.times.co.nz

Swarm blow away Devils.

REIGNING national club ice hockey champions the Botany Swarm are off to a flying start in the defence of their crown. The Swarm opened this year’s NZ Ice Hockey League (NZIHL) with a ...more..

22/5/2011

The Swarm got busy in their second game dealing out a 9-0 trashing of the Red Devils in Christchurch. At Avondale the Admirals battened down the hatches and treated the Thunder to a 5-8 defeat.

21/5/2011

The puck dropped on the 2011 NZIHL season with the Red Devils toughing out and overtime win over Swarm 4*-3 in Christchurch while the Dunedin Thunder thrashed the Admirals 6-1 at Avondale.

04/09/2010

On Saturday evening the Grand Final took place at the Botany Down’s Paradice Ice Rink between the local Botany Swarm team and the West Auckland Admirals. The across town rivalry has been immense and the round robin games produced some outstanding games.

With the Admirals winning their last 6 games there was an expectation that possibly this time they could do it. In front of a capacity crowd , the largest ever for an ice hockey game in Auckland and haveng to turn away a lot more people at the doors, the battle was on.

In period 1 it was obvious that the players had to settle their nerves in front of the very loud and rowdy crowd. This period did not produce a goal despite 12 shots on goal each for both teams.

The scoring was opened in period 2, just after ½ minute. The Swarm took advantage of a power play and Ian Wannamaker scored with an assist to Corey Down. The puck did not find its way into the net again despite the Admirals having a lot of opportunities. Shots on for Admirals 13, Swarm 7

Period 3 was clearly dominated by the Swarm. The Admirals drew a lot of penalties and eventually this had to back fire on them. Corey Down, with a shot from the Blue Line catapulted the puck past the Admirals goalie putting the Swarm into a 2:1 lead. This goal was assisted by Jordan Challis and Ian Wannamaker again. In the last minute the Admirals threw everyone into attack and despite=a penalty for a Swarm player, the Admirals pulling their goalie and replac=ng him with an attacker they were unable to score. With 1 second to go Ian Wannamaker secured the puck to push it into an empty goal ensuring the 3^rd NZIHL Champions title for the Botany Swarm again with a 3:1 win.

Total shots on goal, Admirals 33, Swarm 42. Penalty minutes Admirals 67, Swarm 18.

MVP (Most Valuable Player) for the Finals – Ian Wannamaker.