Sunday, 17 August 2025

Sledge Hockey 2025: Round-Up #14


With the dust now slowly settling on the league phase of the 2025 British Para Ice Hockey season, it is time to have a look at the top player stats for the campaign.

These figures have been painstakingly compiled from a combination of sources – gamesheets (where possible...), various teams’ own data and also Gameday uploads. Unfortunately, the information on Gameday is a bit “hit and miss” and the system doesn’t record PIMs properly - so that information is missing in some cases.

It is also worth pointing out that the Mayhem v Peterborough game was not played, so players from those teams only have stats showing for 7 games instead of the normal 8.

Anyway, Peterborough’s Gary Farmer is once again the league’s top points scorer with 28 goals and 6 assists from 7 games with Cardiff’s Tyler Christopher in second with 19+12 and Mayhem’s Karl Nicholson third with 18+6.

It is interesting to note that 72 players played across the 5 teams during the 2025 season, with 40 of them getting points on the board.

Sheffield Steelkings had the widest distribution of points among the team with all 11 “outfield” players notching up points, while Cardiff Huskies were second with 10 players getting goals or assists.

The full ranking of all 72 players - along with team by team stats breakdowns - will be published in the end of season review book that we are producing for this season, which will be completed after the play offs in September.

We also have the complete (as far as possible...) netminder stats for all teams in this year’s British Para Ice Hockey League.

Here again, Gameday doesn’t record goalie minutes / Time On Ice, which makes things more difficult – and Shots On Goal figures are missing for a number of games as well.

In order to be able to put a proper table of figures together, some of these values have been estimated.

This is not an ideal scenario but, under the circumstances, it is the only way to be able to have reasonable data available for comparison.

The Sheffield Steelkings had an impressive 5 shut outs from their 8 games and only conceded 8 goals in 360 minutes if play so it is not surprising that their two netminders, Jonathan Gill and Andrew Jackson, top the standings for the season.

4 of the 5 shut outs were shared (hence the *) with both netminders icing for part of the game.