Tony Hand: A Life In British Ice Hockey

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It was perhaps his laser-like passing that made him the ultimate team player. His linemates, whether British or foreign, invariably enjoyed a career scoring season when TH was setting them up. Michael is a Whitley Warriors and Sheffield Steeldogs fan and says he’d love to hear Andre Payette on the show Late in 2003 Tony received a letter from Her Majesty the Queen. The letter informed him that he was to be included in the “New Years Honours list”. Appointed as Fierte Trust Lead Practitioner in November 2021, Claire Keay’s role is to work across Academies to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Claire is passionate about all children flourishing as confident, knowledgeable, and reflective life-long learners who are never afraid of challenge or making mistakes due to their love of learning which is fostered by their teachers. Claire started teaching in 1998 and has held wide ranging teaching and leadership roles in Primary schools for over twenty years. Claire has enjoyed phase leader, History, Science and English subject leader responsibilities as well as leading in the role of Assistant Head, Deputy Head and as Headteacher. Throughout, teaching, learning, assessment and curriculum have been at the heart of Claire’s roles due to her expertise in these areas. Previously, Claire has also led the Power of Coaching, Improving and Outstanding Teacher programmes for primary and secondary teachers in her role as an Olevi trained facilitator. Claire believes in the potential of all (children, teachers, leaders, parents). Relationships, belief, trust and care along with the highest of expectations will ensure that self-esteem blossoms, challenge is embraced and thinking, learning and knowledge are deepened and secured minute by minute.

From being the first Brit to be drafted by the NHL to receiving the accolade of his fellow players, who voted him the Player of the Century, he set sky-high standards which may never be beaten. It’s not cheap bringing this Podcast to you, that’s why I’ve chosen to use Patreon to ask for donations to keep the Podcast going. Willie Dunn comes to the Warriors after being Managing Director of Murrayfield Racers for two years, working alongside Hand. clear of second placed Coventry Blaze, and then went on to complete the double by beating the Coventry Blaze 8-7 in a two legged Playoff Final. Edinburgh CapitalsWhitley Bay Ice Rink Management said the following: “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Tony Hand as Head Coach for Whitley Warriors for next season. Tony is arguably one of the best players Britain has produced and with him comes a wealth of knowledge and extensive coaching experience. We are confident with Tony at the helm, the Warriors will be challenging for league and cup trophies. Tony has also expressed his desire to form a close relationship with our Juniors to develop the future Warriors. Willie has amassed boundless managerial experience running Murrayfield Racers and we look forward to working with Tony and Willie for what will be an exciting season ahead.” Great Britain’s greatest days on the ice came in the 1930s, crowned by Olympic gold in 1936. Since World War II, though, appearances in the top division have been fleeting. Prior to last season’s survival sensation in Slovakia, the Brits had not appeared in the top division since 1994 and had not won a game at that level since 1962. With patchy records of many of the players of the 30s and 40s – and even the team of 1962 – this list necessarily has a modern bias. Whitley Warriors are thrilled to announce Tony Hand MBE has been appointed as Head Coach and Willie Dunn has been appointed as General Manager of the Club.

The following season was a disappointing one for Hand as Murrayfield won only one trophy, the Capital Foods Scottish Cup and Great Britain could only finish fifth in the Pool C competition in Denmark. On a personal front, Hand scored his 600th league goal against Durham Wasps and a record 11 assists against Trafford Metros in the quarter-final stage of the Norwich Union Cup. Overall, he scored 85 goals and 147 assists for Murrayfield in 52 games plus 9 goals and 12 assists in 8 games for the GB side.In the Spring of this year (2018) it was announced that Tony’s first club, the Murrayfield Racers had reformed. So, a very BIG thank you to Michael and also to my other Patreon Patron’s, to Tommy Boll, Oscar Brownsword, Colin Dunn, Tony Harrison, Jim Murden, Jeff Povey and Chris Saddington for their continued support. Forgive us if we write some of the figures here again as they are frankly astounding: 1,748 games played, 1,642 goals scored, 2,992 assists, 4,634 points. And this is just in domestic games in the major competitions. We’ve had to omit, for reasons of space, European Cup games, junior GB internationals, Scottish Cups, GB friendlies, and on and on. In return, my Patrons will receive a reward, right now there are 4 different reward levels to chose from.

We all love listening to those often hidden stories from inside the game, the stories that we, as fans, never get to hear. Only 18 at the time (1986), he declined the opportunity to play in North America, preferring to return home to Scotland. At the end of the 1989–90 season, after winning the Norwich Union Cup and the Scottish double, Murrayfield reached the Wembley play-off for the fifth time in seven years but lost to Cardiff Devils on penalty shots with Hand missing the deciding shot. He played 45 games, scoring 73 goals and 117 assists. In March 1990, he won a Gold medal and the MVP award during Great Britain's Pool D promotion campaign in Cardiff scoring 5 goals and 8 assists in 4 one-sided games against Australia and Spain. She is responsible for creating varied menus for our children complying to school nutritional standards and obesity plans whilst incorporating products to fit with allergy requirements, religious requirements and our children’s needs. As far as possible she looks to source local suppliers along with fresh local ingredients. Staff training is another key part of Linda’s role and she endeavours to ensure that we go above and beyond to cover all legal training required along with good staff development. He made his senior debut on 20 September 1981, at the age of fourteen against the Fife Flyers when the Murrayfield Racers had a player shortage. [1] He gained his first point against the Billingham Bombers on 17 October 1981, with an assist to a Chris Kelland goal. He finished the 1981/82 season having played 19 games, scoring 4 goals and adding 7 assists for 11 points. He followed it up the following year with 20 goals and 22 assists, a total of 42 points, in 24 games.Tony Hand inducted into IIHF hall of fame". Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh, Scotland. 17 January 2017 . Retrieved 17 June 2023. Hand, who made his senior debut with his home town side, Murrayfield Racers, aged just 14, wore Britain’s colours in 11 World Championships and one Olympic Qualifier. He played at the top in Italy in 1994 after being the top scoring Brit on the dual national-dominated team that won promotion a year earlier. Tony viewed Dundee as an opportunity to take his career to the next stage and became the Stars first coach. Hand was named the head coach of the British national team on 30 December 2011. He signed a contract for four years. [5] He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children. Family

Linda has worked within the school environment for twelve years and before that had several roles within the hospitality industry, this has given her a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge to which she now uses every day and the ability from that to be able to think outside the box when developing the catering experience. We will work in partnership with the juniors to create a pathway for good local talent into the Warriors setup, as that must be the future of the club. I would like to thank the owners and management of the Rink for giving me this post and I was very impressed with their vision of what the future brings for the team.”

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Tony Hand made his senior debut icing for Murrayfield Racers in 1981 at the tender age of 14 and went on the become one of the finest players this country has ever produced, amassing over 4000 points. Hand was drafted by Edmonton Oilers in the 12th round on the 1986 NHL draft, making him the first British player to do so, icing alongside Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier. Merk, Martin (30 December 2011). "Team GB in Tony's hands". IIHF.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012 . Retrieved 30 December 2011. Podnieks, Andrew (25 April 2017). "A league of their own: IIHF Hall of Fame names 20th induction class". IIHF . Retrieved 22 March 2019. The story recalled the famous quote by the NHL’s Glen Sather, who coached both players, Tony very briefly at an Oilers’ training camp. “Hand,” said Sather, “is the most intelligent player on the ice – bar Gretzky, of course.” For two years he took on the coaching duties, the highlight of which was another promotion, this time to the final qualifying round of the 2014 Winter Olympics.