Well that was a fine way to say goodbye to the home fans after an long, up and down, injury riddled season — With the second trophy in a month. Prior to this season the Giants haven’t won more than one trophy in a season never mind two in a month but tonight the last glimpse the fans got of the 08-09 team were each of them skating around the Odyssey ice with the Knockout Cup above their head.

The Knockout cup usually comes last in the list of teams priorities going into a season and until this year the Giants tended not to even enter it, but this year under Steve Thornton the Giants appeared to give every trophy an equal level of importance as they went into the season with the hope of winning everything. Injuries soon put pay to their chances in the league but their great form in two-legged knockout games came to the fore over the season and they ended up in the final of both the Challenge Cup and Knockout Cup.

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The Giants have never paid this competition much attention in the previous few years but under a new coach, Steve Thornton the Giants have taken every game seriously this year and so find themselves still in the running for the two domestic trophies. Having already made the Challenge Cup Final the boys last night made it to the Knockout cup final with a 4-1 victory over the Cardiff Devils after drawing the first leg 3-3 in Dundonald ice-bowl.

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The last two days the Giants have really thrown down a statement of intent to the rest of the league. Whilst the wins did come in the Knockout cup and not in league action it will still make teams sit up and take note that the Giants have found form again and plan for a real drive back to the top of the league when they get back to league action. Read More»

Nobody might take the Knockout Cup very seriously but everyone takes an opportunity to give the Blaze a beating seriously and tonight the Giants got to do that. The Giants beat their rivals 5-1 in the first ever competitive Giants game at Dundonald Ice Bowl and the fans were left in suspense after it was announced there would be a new signing to be announced tomorrow. The second leg will be in Coventry tomorrow night and baring disaster the Giants should progress.

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The Dundonald Ice Bowl, a hockey mecca and the oldest standing hockey area in the Northern Hemisphere is set to hold two Giants games, the biggest games the building will have ever hosted. Prior to this one it was an open practice session scrimmage of the 2005 Belfast Giants and before that a game between the Castlereagh Knights and some other local rec team. The Giants had previously been scheduled to play the two cup games against rivals Coventry in Dundalk, but fan pressure has convinced the team to move the fixture to Dundonald.

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