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Widnes Wild

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City
  
Widnes, England

Head coach
  
Ollie Barron

Location
  
Widnes, United Kingdom

Affiliate
  
Manchester Storm

General manager
  
Jon Anderson

Division
  
North 2

Date founded
  
2013

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League
  
English National Ice Hockey League

Home arena
  
Silver Blades Ice Rink Capacity: 500 Ice size: 56m x 28m

Colours
  
White, black and yellow

Owner(s)
  
North West Winter Sports Club, Chairman - Matt Lloyd (Paralympian)

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Widnes Wild are an English ice hockey team from the town of Widnes who play at Silver Blades Ice Rink in Widnes. They were formed in 2013. They currently compete in the Laidler Conference of the English Ice Hockey Association National Ice Hockey League (North).

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The current club chairman is the Paralympian, Matt Lloyd.

The club has a youth system, which starts at Under-9's as well as a Women's team competing in the Women's Premier League

With the support of the local community the Widnes Wild run a vibrant schools programme to introduce children to ice hockey.

In the 15/16 season the Wild finished second in the league. In the final league game of the season the Wild forfeited the games against the Deeside Dragons citing safety fears, after Wild player Lee Kemp suffered a head injury following an altercation by Dragons Alex Roberts.

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References

Widnes Wild Wikipedia