Bison Go Down 6-4 in Slough

[loveday]

Bison's had their first game last night as well..
As they will be our first Home game opponents next week thought you might be interested.

The following is taken from Bison's Web Page.

In their first outing on the ice, the Bison lost tonight 6-4 in Slough, with former Bison favourite Tony Redmond amongst the scorers for the Berkshire based side.

With 9 members of the team having only stepped off a plane yesterday, and lacking sleep, the Bison put in a good performance. Going into the game without a training session, the Bison went down to a 4-0 defecit in the first, including cracking goals from former Bison's Joe Ciccarello & Tony Redmond.

However, the second period was a different story with star man Mark DeSantis getting his first goal in Bison colours, to which he also added 2 assists in a stellar evening. With Eric Braff putting in many big hits in a game where Zero Tolerence calls marred the first and third periods.

Man of the Match Greg Chambers later was on the scoresheet ably assisted by "Bullet" Blair Manning, who also put an "apple" on a another goal.

[messier1851]

Not a great start for the Bison but only a preseason game I suppose. Think DeSantis will definately be one to watch this year, put up great CHL numbers and from the sounds of it he'll do a job over here as well.

[matt44]

Now I know there has been some VISA issues but theres no excuse for NINE of your team only arriving just before the game and going into it with no practices!! Thats just really bad organisation.

[pantheruk]

oh well its only a pre season game
is this the 1st game bison have played together?

[bobness]

Pre season games are about as much guide here as in the NHL.
Bison will be good this year, I think.