Anthony Booth was the two-goal hero away at Sheffield (Photo by Roksana Oniszczuk)
Saturday 14th June
2025 – BPIHL: Sheffield Steelstings 1 –
Mayhem 3
The Mayhem sledge team notched
up their second win of the 2025 British Para Ice Hockey League season with a
1-3 victory away to Sheffield Steelstings on Saturday.
The two teams had met in Widnes
the week before where the Mayhem had shut out the Sheffield B team 6-0 but
visits to Sheffield are always tricky and the Steelstings put in a gritty
display on their home ice.
First period goals from Anthony
Booth and Karl Nicholson gave the Mayhem a 0-2 lead heading into the first
break and the second period was goal-less.
Lucas Thomas scored for the
Steelstings in the third period – only their second goal in the league so far
this season – to give the home team a glimmer of hope but a second strike of
the game from Booth made sure of the points for the Mayhem.
The other game of the weekend
saw the Sheffield A team – the Steelkings – trounce defending champions and league
leaders Cardiff Huskies 9-0 at iceSheffield on Sunday.
Here again, the same two teams had met the week before with the Huskies very narrowly winning 2-1 in overtime down in the Welsh capital, so this result was quite a surprise.
Despite the defeat, Cardiff
remain top of the league table with 6 points from their 6 games to date while the
Steelkings move up to second with 5 points from 3 games.
The Mayhem play Cardiff in
their next home game this Saturday 21st June at Planet Ice Widnes,
4.15pm face off, and - with everybody looking capable of beating everybody else
this season - it should be a fascinating contest.
