On 31 October 2002 while everyone else was out celebrating Halloween, I was launching this website. Back then it opened under the name belfastgiants.net and was a source for me to write about the Giants, report on games and host various stats that at times were not available on the official website. I was also studying web design and so this gave me a site with which to experiment with and in turn lead to various face lifts of the site.

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Watching Giants GM and ex-player, Todd Kelman stand next to Bruins president and ex-legend Cam Neeley at the Bruins arena announcing this game seems somewhat surreal. When the Giants arrived in Belfast in 2000 a lot of people wrote the sport of as a novelty believing that the big crowds that came along to sell out the arena in the first few season would not last. But while the crowds are not quite at the sellout level they once where, they are still big and now, after ten seasons of hockey and 610 games, to see the Giants now only still playing and even winning (this years playoff champions), it is superb to see that they have grown to the stature that they can invite and host NHL calibre clubs to Belfast. I wouldn’t want to serve up humble pie to those non believers back in 2000 because it was understandable to believe it probably wouldn’t last this long, but I hope they are impressed with how well the team has done in the end.

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Rumours have been doing the rounds on various message boards about different changes to the league next season given that it is expanding from eight to ten teams. Below is a look at the majors ones with my thoughts…

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Over on the KotG message board I noticed a topic running that had fans debating and listing their all-time worst five Giants players. It’s thrown up some interesting names as different people have varying opinions on who didn’t impress in the teal and white. Some obvious names have come up though for every couple of obvious candidates there have been some strange choices. Someone even named Mark Dutiaume and another Matt Reid. But, anyway, to round up every Giants player with all their different positions, styles of play, attributes and rolls on the team and pick the worst five is not easy and can only really be done by deciding which players least lived up to their own individual roll within the team. The easy choice for many was the enforcer types like Angelstad and McMorrow but I haven’t included them because within the roll assigned to them, they did well enough.

McMorrow cannot be judged as bad because he didn’t score much, just as Kory Karlander cannot be judged as bad because he couldn’t fight. If we’re going to call Terran Sandwith bad because he could only score a goal against the British team in a friendly, then we have to call Ed Courtenay awful because he never blocked a shot. (Note: He may well have blocked a shot, but you get what I’m trying to say).

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Flights have been cancelled all over the UK today due to a large dust cloud reportedly caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland. The truth behind the dust cloud however appears to be much simpler having been caused by the annual cleaning of the Nottingham Panthers trophy cabinet.

Hope nobody has been too badly effected.