Andy Buxton ๐ฌ๐ง
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Chairman of Coventry Blaze Ice Hockey and GM of Team GB Ice Hockey. I tweet only about GB as thousands tweet about Blaze better than me!
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05-08-2009 22:40:15
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๐ GAMEDAY 4 ๐ฌ๐ง Great Britain v USA ๐บ๐ธ ๐ Nokia Arena, Tampere, Finland โฐ 16:20 face-off (14:20 UK) ๐บ FreeSports ๐บ
๐ GAMEDAY 5 ๐ฌ๐ง Great Britain v Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ Nokia Arena, Tampere โฐ 16:20 face-off (14:20 UK) ๐บ FreeSports ๐บ
Nice to recognize a member of the Team GB Ice Hockey off ice staff - its 50 caps today for Equipment Manager Steve Small today when ๐ฌ๐ง play Finland. Steve works tirelessly at tournaments and also setting up & packing down before and after & makes the best cup of tea in our group
50th cap today for our head honcho, and fearless leader, Pete Russell when ๐ฌ๐ง Team GB Ice Hockey take on Finland today. After 5 as assistant, he now has 45 as head coach, second only to Peter Woods (50) & is second all time in wins with 23, just one behind Woods. Congrats Pete ๐ฌ๐ง
Congratulations to @Oconnor81ben81 who is set to become only the 12th player and 4th defenceman to be presented with a silver cap for reaching 75 caps for Team GB Ice Hockey when ๐ฌ๐ง take on Latvia in the World Championships today. Thank you for your fantastic service to ๐ฌ๐ง hockey.
Congratulations to Jonathan Phillips who today will become the most capped Team GB Ice Hockey player of all time, winning cap number 111 against Austria at the World Championships in Finland. A phenomenal record for an outstanding person and leader of the ๐ฌ๐ง team. Thank you. ๐ฌ๐ง
Huge congratulations to Mark Richardson who is today set to become just the 5th member of the Team GB Ice Hockey 100 cap club when ๐ฌ๐ง play Austria later. An outstanding member of the team, Richie will win his gold cap on the World's biggest stage before our biggest game. Fitting.
Congratulations to our fantastic Team GB Ice Hockey physio, nicola sherlock who today works her 75th worlds or Olympics game for ๐ฌ๐ง. She has patched up, repaired or treated hundreds of ๐ฌ๐ง players during her 75 cap service to the team & has been a major part of all we've achieved. ๐ฌ๐ง
It has been the greatest honour and privilege to have represented Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as part of Team GB Ice Hockey and to have sung the national anthem in her name after our wins. Tomorrow it will be time to say goodbye. Thank you Ma'am for everything. ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง
Good luck from all Team GB Ice Hockey Men to GB Women in their World Championship game against Italy in Korea this morning. And hats off to Team Manager Claire for creating the best possible environment to help Mike and the team succeed ๐ฌ๐ง
๐บ WEBCAST ๐บ ๐ Great Britain against Latvia at the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham will be live on a webcast tomorrow (7pm face-off). ๐บ Watch here ๐ cleancutlive.com
๐ฌ๐ง๐ต๐ฑ Tickets now on sale for GB's international games with Poland next month โ 3๏ธโฃ under-10s free with paying adult Buy here โคต๏ธ ๐ Fri 26th April (7:30pm) Planet Ice Leeds โก๏ธ tinyurl.com/gbpolandleeds ๐ Sat 27th April (7pm) Motorpoint Arena Nottingham โก๏ธ tinyurl.com/gbpolandnottinโฆ
๐ฌ๐ง All of Great Britain's games at this year's World Championship will be live on Premier Sports