NIHL Signing News

NIHL News

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Solway Sharks have today confirmed the re-signing of forward Marc Fowley who will now prepare for his fifth season at the Dumfries outfit, having first iced with the side during their promotion battle in their 2011-12 campaign. A hardworking forward with a proficiency for finding the back of the net, Fowley made his way through the junior ranks of ice hockey with North Ayrshire prior to icing with Paisley Pirates in the Northern League from 2007 to 2010. A move to Fife Flyers in the season that followed then provided Fowley with the opportunity to play at the highest level of British ice hockey as he went on to feature in twenty nine Elite League games with the Flyers whilst also making his debut with Edinburgh Capitals and Solway Sharks in the same season. Remaining with the Capitals for two seasons subsequent to his initial spell with the club saw Fowley play a further ninety seven games in the EIHL before making his move to Solway more permanent. Though missing out on some fixtures through injury last season, Fowley recorded eight goals and ten assists in nineteen games, coming close to averaging a point per game. Joining fellow forwards Ross Murray, Steven Moore, Scott Henderson and Daniel Abercrombie in the Sharks’ offensive line-up, Fowley will once again look to be industrious in front of goal, having found himself amongst Solway’s top points scorers in recent seasons.

Meanwhile, Blackburn Hawks have re-signed Slovakian left winger Jozef Ištocy who joined the Lancashire outfit part way through their latest campaign. Icing for both HK SKP Poprad and HK Spisska Nova Ves in the Under 18s league from 2009, Ištocy then progressed to play two seasons for Poprad’s Under 20s team, tallying thirty two points in seventy nine games. After making the switch to Poland 2 in 2012, the skilled winger then returned to HK Spisska Nova Ves’ senior team where he played one hundred and fifteen games over the course of three seasons, scoring a total of eighteen goals and notching twenty assists. A standout player for the Hawks last season, Ištocy achieved twenty three points in just fifteen games to make a positive impact in the latter stages of Blackburn’s season which certainly contributed to the side’s third place finish. As such, the Slovakian will make a welcome return to the club when he takes to the ice with the side for the first encounter of their upcoming campaign which begins with a road trip to Solway on the 2^nd September as the two go head to head in the NIHL National Cup competition. 

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