Those points mean that Dragons finish in 5th place 8 points adrift of 4th place Widnes Wild who wound up their own league campaign with a 3-10 win away at bottom club Bradford Bulldogs.
Senators had won 5-3 at home to Coventry Blaze on Saturday and finish comfortable in second place, 8 points ahead of Widnes and just two behind runners up Telford Tigers.
In a season that has been difficult to gauge until now statistics-wise due to so many games having been played for double points, it is interesting to note that only Senators, Widnes and Bulldogs actually played all 36 regular matches while Deeside and Nottingham played 34.
Solihull, Telford and Coventry played 32 games each, although the Tigers v Blaze game on 27th December was awarded 5-0 to the hosts as the Blaze were unable to fulfil the fixture. Hull Jets and Blackburn Eagles only played 28 games - through no fault of their own we should point out - just down to the exigeances of various teams trying to squeeze in more games than originally planned for.
The huge downside of this from a stats point of view is that, while those games may have been played for double points with the winning side taking 4 points for a win instead of two, it still only registers as a single game in terms of player appearances, goals and assists etc so the players who played fewer games had less opportunity to score points than those whose teams played more games. More on this topic in the 2015 Ice Hockey Review NIHL yearbook (out in October!)....
Photo: Deeside's Paul Davies celebrates his goal against Sheffield Senators - by Peter Sheffield www.psd-images.co.uk
