By Tom Pink Not everyone gets their fairy tale. There simply aren’t enough of them to go around. Some land plumb first time, some have to be worked at. Some of them are in direct conflict with others. We knew that Basingstoke Buffalo and Haringey Huskies couldn’t both have it their way. The third attempt...
By Tom Pink This isn’t the game we all wanted, but it’s the game we get. We would have loved to have had the league riding on this one, for that one last push, that do or die. As it is, that’s all been tied up beforehand and we’re left with Haringey playing for pride...
By Tom Pink Oh they had me going there. I was all in. This was it. Our first league win over Guildford Phoenix was nailed on. One period left, twenty minutes to play, 2-0 up. They were bringing it back to the Palace. Pyro on order, we’d be lining the streets, roaring them on, one...
By Tom Pink That was a hard-fought weekend. Both games, all four points, tooth and nail. We work so, so hard to get on top that we teeter on the edge and almost come tumbling down. Of all the back-to-backs this was always going to be the hardest, the most testing, the most tiring. Oxford...
By Tom Pink The cup’s gone. It was always going to be difficult. When I heard we’d taken the lead inside the first minute I did briefly allow myself to dream that it might turn out differently, that we might add another W to our record against them, but Guildford are relentless. I think changing...
By Tom Pink Where to start. The big positive is that we continue to have an incredible netminder who does a consistent job of keeping us in games, sometimes, as in this case, when we have no real right to be in them. Luke Clark is named player of the match for giving us a...
It’s another miracle on ice. Another treacherous game that Haringey just about manage to navigate. Another game where they’re made to suffer for large parts.
“I’ll be fascinated to see how we do across these as we laboured somewhat in the second games of our double game weekends last year.”
“This is why I love ice hockey!” There’s a lad that I reckon comes to all the games, home and away, that can’t be much older than about 10.
Big and small, it’s the moments that define us. I loved being back at the Palace for the first time this season. Loved everything about it.
