Dunedin Ice Hockey Association

The Turkey vs New Zealand Ice Blacks games in the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships Division III started with a furious pace. The Ice Blacks scored within the first 11 seconds of the game. Then the Turks fought back to level the score after on 49 seconds. The pace of the Turkish players was noticeably higher than the Luxembourg team the Ice Blacks faced the night before. Although pace was higher, the initial flurry of scoring was stopped dead in it’s tracks bar a single goal to the Ice Blacks during the middle of the period.

Turkey continued their quick pace into the second period and scored two minutes in, but the Ice Blacks consistently pulled the score away to finish the period 6 – 2. There was some debate over a goal which many in the crowed believed the Ice Blacks scored, however neither the referee or goal judge called it which caused some heated looks on a few of the Ice Blacks players. The Ice Blacks scored another two goals early in the third period, but slowed the game down enough to stop anymore scoring, rounding out the game 8 – 2.

The following photos are courtesy of Peter Idoine.
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The following videos are from the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships Division III held in Dunedin.

Ireland vs Greece

NZ Ice Blacks vs Luxembourg

The New Zealand Ice Blacks vs Southern All Stars game held on February 28th has been caught on camera. If you would like to see more clips like this, please upload them to the web (YouTube, Viddler or similar) and we will happily embed here on the site.

Some old news which slipped under the radar at the time:
Winter games program – ODT article
Dunedin Ice Stadium budget trim – ODT article

Thanks to the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club for the news report.

And here is a video clip from Channel 9 about the new Dunedin Ice Stadium developments: