Following last weekend’s action, the England Ice Hockey Department of Player Safety (DOPS) have issued the following sanctions:

• Jack Whiting (Cardiff Canucks) | 1 game suspension – Fighting
  • Additional comments: Fighting in the last five minutes of the game, and both willing combatants.
• Aston Lacey (Solent Junior Devils) | 1 game suspension – Fighting
  • Additional comments: Fighting in the last five minutes of the game, and both willing combatants.
• Tom Brierley (Hull Jets) | 3 game suspension – Fighting
  • Additional comments: Instigator and aggressor, sucker punch. Player continued incitement after fight.
• Ross Kennedy (Deeside Dragons) | 4 game suspension – Kneeing
  • Additional comments: Contact was at speed and with excessive force, Player stepped into hit with knee, and there was knee-to-knee contact which recklessly endangering the opponent.
• Friedrich Heinzle (Leeds Knights NIHL 2) | 2 game suspension – Fighting
  • Additional comments: Aggressor. Player repeatedly punched an unwilling opponent.
• Ben Greenhalgh (Billingham Stars) | 4 game suspension – boarding
  • Additional comments: Player thrown head first into the boards. Outward extension, recklessly endangering opponent and injury noted.

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