What you need to know about the Live Stream on 28th November
MK Lightning vs Sheffield Steeldogs On Saturday 28th November All in Black Milton Keynes Lightning will host our final live stream as part of the NIHL National Streaming Series. The stream will start at 6.45pm to make sure you can see the warm up and watch the show getting ready for face off at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 and can be booked by clicking here Please buy early - you are emailed a link that you need to access the live stream. Streaming Ticket – Additional Viewer (Optional) £3 If there's a group of you watching, how about buying additional [...]
What you need to know about the Live Stream on the 21st November
MK Lightning vs Swindon Wildcats On Saturday 21st November All in Black Milton Keynes Lightning will host our first live stream as part of the NIHL National Streaming Series. The stream will start at 6.15pm to make sure you can see the warm up and watch the show getting ready for face off at 7pm as usual. Tickets are £12 and can be booked by clicking here Please buy early - you are emailed a link that you need to access the live stream. Streaming Ticket – Additional Viewer (Optional) £3 If there's a group of you watching, how about [...]
Additional Defensive Depth with Zach
Following the first weekend of Streaming Series games, AIB Milton Keynes Lightning have added further depth to the defensive unit with the signing for the remainder of the Streaming Series of Zach Sullivan from Manchester Storm. Lightning Head Coach Lewis Clifford had this to say: "I’m really happy to have Sully on board for the remainder of the Streaming Series. We are a little short at the back at the moment so to have a player of his quality contact me and want to play is a huge boost. Sully is a solid Elite League defenceman and he will make [...]
Match Report 14/11/20: Swindon Wildcats 8 : 6 AIB Milton Keynes Lightning
Milton Keynes Lightning returned to the ice for the first time in eight months – pioneers in an experiment to bring back hockey without the fans as they travelled to Swindon Wildcats for the first of a series of six livestreamed games. While the result – an 8-6 defeat for Lightning may not be the one the team and fans would have wanted – the excellently produced stream attracted nearly 1,700 subscribers, some of them fans from clubs up and down the country, including those from a number of Elite League clubs starved of action. Both outfits drafted in players [...]
Streaming Series Roster Finalised with Reinforcements
Rounding out our roster for the Streaming Series we are delighted to welcome back a couple of players with AIB MK Lightning experience. Bolstering our defence is David Clements who has spent the last 5 seasons with Coventry Blaze in the Elite League. Clemo played 23 games for Lightning in a side which featured current MKL stars Grant McPherson, Leigh Jamieson, James Griffin, Bobby Chamberlain, Eddie Knaggs, Lewis Christie and Ross Green. Also part of that team is our second reveal today. Please welcome back Lewis Hook. Hooky played 4 seasons for Lightning and left us a couple of years [...]
Streaming Series Reinforcements: Benny’s back, and Ross Venus signs
The Reinforcements Let us introduce you to two - Â one returnee and one brand new player. Returning to the line up is Ben Russell (who will now wear #55). Â Ben made 41 appearances for AIB MKL last year, picking up 1 goal and 6 assists. Â He joined us from Streatham, having previously made appearances for Peterborough, Manchester, MKL and some time in North America. Â Welcome back Ben and thank you for stepping in! In a new addition to the line up, we welcome Ross Venus who joins us from Coventry Blaze. Â 26 year old Ross is an accomplished all round [...]
Streaming Series: Four players step back for the series
As we prepare for the first game of the Streaming Series we’d like to share with you some updates to our roster. Working with our players and coaching staff over the last few weeks as we have been preparing for the games, we took a straightforward view: everyone has different circumstances and perspectives to their personal life and there would be a free choice for anyone on our team as to whether they would like to be involved in the series. We worked through this with each player, Cliff and Ross to understand what they wanted to do and how [...]
Support AIB MK Lightning by becoming a Face in the Crowd!
AIB Milton Keynes Lightning are scheduled to play The Streaming Series behind closed doors, but you can still support the team by being a Face in the Crowd which will be displayed on a seat in the rink during the matches. Fans can buy a cut-out of their face and upper body, which will be displayed in the arena for all of the home matches where fans are unable to attend due to COVID restrictions. Why limit it to just you? You could have the whole family sat virtually in the rink! Each cut out costs £25 with an [...]
Introducing our Streaming Series Jersey
Following on from yesterday's league news about the Streaming Series, we're delighted to share with you the design for the jersey we will wear for these games. Incorporating a strong lightning bolt design and featuring the logo of our Official Team Partner All In Black along with the Zeus logo, the white design looks fresh and clean and gives fans the opportunity add a different coloured shirt to their collection. They will be worn for the Streaming Series games. Should we move into playing a regular season, we will launch the usual set of light, dark and warm-up and [...]
NIHL hockey is back with the Streaming Series!
The NIHL National owners group has been collaborating extensively over the last few weeks, and working with the EIHA and rink operators towards the objective of getting our game back on the ice. We would like to put on record our thanks to the EIHA, Planet Ice, Ice Sheffield and GLL Better Leisure for the support of our clubs during this critical phase of our season planning. We’re delighted to share that we have created a small pilot series of games which will take place in November, so that we can gather information to feed into planning for a competitive [...]
