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@steelershockey
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@george_barber01
- Opinions are my own and not those from the club/others.
Something I will say if we want to grow the sport of ice hockey in the UK…
IMO the world championships should not be on viaplay. People should not have to pay to watch Britain play hockey.
It should be on the BBC, ITV etc. If we want to grow the sport it should be free to air
Right I’m biting.
Seeing people complain about players swearing on the ice is actually making me want to cry.
It’s sport. Sport is a huge part of our lives.
Here’s a news flash. Players swear, refs swear, coaches swear.
Please get a grip.
Martin Latal has left the club.
In his two seasons with the Steelers he scored 114 points in 132 games in all competitions.
One of the fastest skaters we’ve seen at the club.
Go well Martin!
I’m disappointed to say it’s the last time I’ll watch
@MKLightning
play at the arena.
You have some outstanding fans, and I wish you the best of luck next season wherever you end up.
If you’re privately messaging abuse to a referee over their performance during a game of ice hockey, you need to reevaluate your life choices.
Unfortunately that’s happened to
@Joe_Sewell20
. A younger, promising referee.
Hockey is not life or death. Get a grip.
My last tweet of the evening.
Aaron Fox: “The first of many, let’s fucking go!”
Over the PA system at the arena.
Who said hockey was a family sport? 😂
Goodnight!
Remember the time when...
Levi Nelson had to have about three injections because the ligaments in his knee were almost not even there anymore...
But he still carried on playing and in the third period of overtime won the playoff championships?
Yeah we all do.
#thedays
My thoughts are with the Panthers player and his family.
We all come together at times, as a hockey family. I pray that he will make a speedy recovery.
What a team.
Elite League Champions!
The days you dream of as a fan. All the money spent over the season, all the pints drank, it all becomes worth it in the end. And what a group of players that have won it.
Grandslam winners 😂😂😂
Fucking unbelievable Steelers
What a fucking club and what a fucking team we have
Aaron Fox, keys to the city surely?
(I’ve put myself in one of the pictures because I can)
Tony Smith:
—
A lot of these guys will be returning next season
It’ll be hard to replicate
This side with what they’ve been through deserve it —
He looked bloody emotional as well. Very lucky to have him as an owner 😁
What is your latest signing saying to all women that support your club?
What is it saying to all women who follow the Elite League?
What is it saying to women in general?
Seriously
@ClanIHC
this is an absolute disgrace. Do better.
A U-Turn needs to be done immediately.
Honestly infuriated by the Linden Springer incident.
And it wasn’t even against the Steelers.
Just shows how players actions can affect the league as a whole.
He doesn’t belong in this league.
We don’t want him.
Who’d have Fucking thought it?
No one.
Grandslam winners for god knows how long?
It’s an I was there moment. Because it won’t happen again for a long time.
Fucking unreal Steelers 😁😁😁
The
@steelthepuck
player of the season goes to Brendan Connolly.
He had a shaky start, took too many penalties.
But then one week he just changed.
An absolute machine and produced some x-rated material in the final.
Well done Conns.
Literally unbelievable.
Just shows you, none of them have been flukes.
A whacky hockey club on the outskirts of Sheffield. Atmosphere immense from start to finish.
We deserve to be where we are. One more win and we are likely in the playoffs.
🧡🧡🧡
Genuinely the best team this league will ever see.
So drink it in folks.
The standard of this squad won’t be replicated and it hasn’t been done before.
Excellence everywhere.
As a Steelers fan of around 9 years ish, I’ll say this. This will be a night I will not forget for a long time.
Not just beating, but beating by a big scoreline a top European side (with some questionable fans).
It’s a pleasure to watch this team play!
We now move onto Sunday!
Two more years for the absolute BLOKE that is Kevin Tansey.
It’s not very often a player signs and in their first season they become a cult hero.
What a player he is, and an absolute man mountain. Can’t wait for two more years of THAT beard as well!
What that girl tweeted about autism and disabilities is just plainly unnecessary.
Hockey is great because it allows people with disabilities/learning difficulties a pathway into watching sport.
Such an awful thing to tweet.
Hockey is for everyone.
Brandon McNally is one of my favourite players I’ve seen play for the Steelers in a long time.
Looks like he has settled in really well, and provides the goods going forward.
He must be a right bugger to play against as well. Possibly signing of the year.
60 minutes away from a cup final. 6-0 aggregate lead.
Top of the league, 13 points clear with a game in hand on second place.
Top scorers in the league, least amount conceded.
God it’s good to be a Steelers fan sometimes 😁
People that don’t like fights.
After the Dowd fight, I haven’t heard noise like it in the arena since Nottingham in the playoff quarter finals back in 2017.
That building was energised.
I’m annoyed, but consistently poor results and mindless hockey from February onwards was always going to be our undoing.
We need to learn from the Giants. That’s how you win a title. No fear, all guns blazing. They’ve been relentless, and their fans are class.
Fair-play guys!
Two trophies to his name, a few fights, and an absolute fan favourite.
Wishing Big John Armstrong all the best for the future.
It’s been a pleasure to have you at the Sheffield Steelers 🧡
It makes me really pleased to see that the playoff pricing and ticketing structure has bitten the EIHL on the backside.
Greed doesn’t get you anywhere.
Lessons will hopefully be learned from this season. We’re fans, not customers.
I won’t lie, I did believe the Steelers would get to the final. I had my hopes up. Should never do that as a sports fan!
That being said, I deserve the pelters I’m getting. They make me laugh.
Safe trip home
@FifeFlyers
fans and good luck in the final!
Struggling to believe that people are using the argument that we shouldn’t bring DeLuca back because it’s a bad role model for children.
Allegedly he did a bit of cannabis.
It’s hardly like we’re signing The Wolf of Wall Street 🙄
If they cancel the remaining games and playoffs I think the Steelers should automatically win everything because we are the best and deserve everything.
I want nothing more tonight than to be driving to the arena in the rain, hearing the shouts of fifty fifty, shirt off the back. Queuing up at entrance B, getting inside the arena, listening to the pretender and losing 4-1 to Dundee, causing a Twitter meltdown. Take me back.
Panthers fans are an absolute credit to the organisation by the way. After the season they have had they created an utterly fantastic atmosphere tonight and were right behind their team.
Has it sunk in yet
@steelershockey
fans?
Because it hasn’t for me. We’ve waited eight long years for this moment.
In all those years we always thought “surely this is our year”.
But yesterday it finally was our year 😁
Can I just do a shout out also to
@jonasweest
.
I know we say it all the time about how his passion last season was awesome.
This season, it has shone through him. His passion delfects onto every player, and since he’s come back, has completely improved the team.
#teamplayer
Our fans by the way tonight were unreal!!!
Best atmosphere I’ve heard, probably ever. And that’s in 9 years of going to the Steelers.
We cheered the team to that trophy.
I’ve seen some fantastic individual performances over the years.
Dominic Cormier today put in the best individual performance I have ever seen.
Absolutely amazing.
We’ve the last hour unfollowing people who don’t follow the blog or interact.
So if you follow the blog, and we don’t follow you back, please make yourself known. We want hockey twitter! (700 of you).
Like this tweet and we will follow you right back.
We will follow all!
I’ve held my tongue for long enough.
If anyone thinks this team are anything less than an embarrassment then that’s your own problem.
Awful since Christmas.
It’s bad to watch, it’s not worth the money. And then we get embarrassed like that.
Dreadful.
Since viaplay are claiming all the rights to EIHL coverage, I hope they can improve some of their broadcast coverage.
Such as:
A weekly show with highlights (MOTD style)
More games broadcast
A possible day pass to watch your team if they’re on
More free to air games
Tell you what.
Since
@Oconnor81ben81
has come into the
@steelershockey
side, he’s now scored 6 points in 4 games from defence.
And the sides performances have improved.
Impact player?
You bet ya 😉
Connolly is such a hard working player.
He’s one of the best I’ve seen in Orange since I started watching in 2015.
Excellent mindset for a player, knows what he’s doing to wind the opposition up, and scores points.
Would love to see him stay.
at hockey rn, player was being dirty af and a fan threw a bottle of coke on the ice at him and then tried to fight the player
this sport is something else
Josh McFadden.
Someone slated constantly, has literally just slammed one into the top corner in front of a sellout crowd from 20 yards out.
That celebration from him spoke volumes.
Give that lad a knighthood.