Ed Courtenay in just over a month will turn 40 years of age. He’ll be the oldest player to ever have iced for the Giants but the player-coach will break a few more records if his current form continues.

Through 35 games so far (including four challenge cup games) big Ed has 18 goals and 46 assists for 64 points. Should that form continue Ed will play the full compliment of 58 regular season games. On current pace over the next 23 games you can expect to see Ed potentially score 12 goals and add 30 assists for another 42 points. So in all after 58 regular season games are done Ed Courtenay on current pace will have 30 goals and 76 assists for 106 points. Should Ed put in a 100+ point season he would become the first player in Elite League history and in Giants history to have a 100 point season and thats before the playoffs even begin. Read More»

It’s been ten days since my last post and back then I previewed the Giants Christmas games talking about how their form has been over the Christmas period in years gone by. True to form the Giants have been successful winning five of five so far over the Christmas period with one more game to go on the 5th against Nottingham. It means it’ll be another winning Christmas for the Giants who in their five wins so far have turned over Coventry, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Cardiff twice. It’s moved the Giants up into the top half of the table going into the second half of the season. Read More»

Tonight is the last home game before Christmas and the league leading Blaze come into our barn for a tilt that last time out between the two teams in Coventry shockingly had the Giants winning AND shutting out their opponent. The Giants form has been inconsistent of late, I guess that goes for the season but they’ve slowly been climbing the standings and enter the festive season with the chance of closing the gap even more on the top teams.

It’s probably unrealistic to expect the Giants to win the league this year but they will make the playoff knockout stage and so have a season long run to prepare for it and to push for the final four and possibly the final trophy of the 07-08 season. Now that would cap off the season nicely. Read More»

(Image stolen from Giants website but I’m sure they wont mind!!)

This is one of the nicest Giants jersey’s of all time and to think it was probably thrown together over a few weeks to raise some extra cash in a raffle over the festive season. I may be missing the games they will be worn over Christmas but I will certainly be leaving some cash behind to cover the cost of entering the raffle to get my hands on one of them. Beauties.

Normally when I look at the fixtures and see a road game in Coventry I mark that down as one I expect them to lose, afterall the Giants never beat Coventry nevermind in Coventry and after a defeat on Friday night I fully believe this would be a losing weekend to forgot. Then the Giants gave me a kick in the ass, reminding me to show more faith more often as they rolled into the Coventry Sky Dome and took all two points with a 2-0 shutout to boot. It was a major result against the runaway league leaders that will install a confidence into the Giants players that anyone and everyone is beatable.

British netminder Stevie Lyle was the hero of the night and deserves the praise he’s been getting so far this year. Is it to early to take a leaf out of the NHL teams books and try lock this guy up for next year already?

Boy, I love beating Coventry.