Milton Keynes Lightning suffered the heartbreak of a 5-4 penalty shoot-out loss after staging a dramatic comeback against National Ice Hockey League leaders Telford Tigers on Saturday. Lightning look dead and buried after Tigers took a two goal lead in the first period with Lightning unable to get close enough to the Telford goal to have any meaningful shots on netminder Bad Day. But, to their credit, it was a different Lightning side that took the ice in the second session. They upped the gas and by the next intermission they were on terms with the visitors, thanks to [...]

Hockey can be a strange old game – just five days after being convincingly beaten by Basingstoke Bison at Planet Ice on Saturday, Milton Keynes Lightning redressed the balance with a 5-1win in Hampshire. Coach Lewis Clifford will have been delighted with the turn-around after the 8-4 loss at the weekend in which his team failed to spark. This time it was a different matter, despite having to come back from going a goal behind early in the second period in a game that saw the return from injury of Sean Norris. The opening 20 minutes saw Bison outshoot [...]

Four goals in 11 second period minutes wrecked any chance of Milton Keynes Lightning had of securing points at Swindon Wildcats on Sunday, as the weekend ended on a disappointing note. Two more defeats – an 8-4 loss to Basingstoke Bison followed by this 5-2 reverse mean that Lightning’s hopes of challenging for the National Ice Hockey League title are fading fast. Lightning got off to an excellent start as Bobby Chamberlain supplied Sam Talbot for the opening goal after 2mins 45secs. However, MK were unable to add anything to the early advantage and it was to cost them [...]

Basingstoke Bison capitalised on one of the most disjointed and poorest displays of the season for Milton Keynes Lightning at Planet Ice on Saturday when they inflicted an 8-4 defeat on the hosts. Despite a bright start for Lightning who scored in the fourth minute on a powerplay, Bison hit back with two strikes in the space of 22 seconds and then effectively destroyed any hopes of a fightback with three goals in less than three second period minutes to lead 6-2 at the second break. To complete a disappointing night for MK, the visitors added two more in [...]

Inspired by a Liam Stewart hat-trick and a Sam Talbot brace Milton Keynes Lightning put the disappointment of their previous two games behind them with an emphatic 8-3 win over struggling Bees at Planet Ice on Saturday. Apart from shaky ten minutes in the second period Lightning were dominant throughout and rarely looked like losing after taking a three goal lead into the first break. Lightning were missing Sean Norris from the offensive lines and Lewis Christie in defence, plus Edgars Landsbergs. Man of the match Stewart won possession in the offensive zone to catch out goalie Adam Goss [...]

Delayed on the motorway, things didn’t get better for Milton Keynes Lightning when they ended up on the wrong end of a 6-4 scoreline at Sheffield Steeldogs on Friday. The visitors had to wait until the 29th minute for their opening goal. By that time though Steeldogs had already bagged three of their own, starting on 11mins 35secs when Henry Adams made the supply for Nathan Ripley to fire home past former Steeldogs goalie, Brandon Stones, now in MK colours. Lightning had barely had chance to recover than Sheffield doubled their advantage at 13mins 53secs when top marksman Jason [...]

The road to the final of the National Ice Hockey League Cup came to an abrupt end in Shropshire when Milton Keynes Lightning were beaten 6-2 by a clinical Telford Tigers team who won the semi-final 10-8 on aggregate. Lightning’s two goal advantage from the dramatic 6-4 victory at Planet Ice the previous Thursday was wiped out within the first 11 minutes by a Tigers outfit that went on to score six unanswered goals before Lewis Clifford’s men registered on the scoresheet. Goal number one came on 1min 52secs when Austin Mitchell-King tipped in a Finley Howells pass before [...]

After the highs of defeating the top two sides in the National Ice Hockey League, Milton Keynes Lightning were brought back to earth with a bump when they went down 7-3 at Peterborough Phantoms on Sunday. The exertions of the cup win against Telford Tigers and success two days later over Swindon Wildcats may have taken its toll in Lightning’s third game in four days but Phantoms’ rink has often proved to be a difficult place to play. However, Lightning got off to a good start thanks to a hooking penalty on Will Weldon that allowed the visitors to [...]