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League PositionRecent League Form ➡Established2002 (22 years old)
Sport Ice Hockey
Stadium/HomePlanet Ice Arena Milton Keynes
(2,500 Capacity)
Jersey or Equipment Clearart
ArchivePrimary ColoursLocation1 South Row, Central Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, UK
NicknamesCompetitions_No League Ice HockeyLast Editsmudgie: 25/Jun/20
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31/03 | MK Lightning | 1 - 4 | Sheffield St | |
30/03 | Cardiff Devi | 9 - 1 | MK Lightning | |
29/03 | MK Lightning | 3 - 5 | Manchester S | |
23/03 | Sheffield St | 5 - 1 | MK Lightning | |
22/03 | MK Lightning | 4 - 3 | Guildford Fl | |
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The Milton Keynes Lightning are a semi-professional ice hockey team founded in 2002 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The Lightning play in Britain's tier-2 National League, a division within the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL), since the 2019–20 season.
Club history
Foundation
Founded in 2002, MK Lightning moved into the empty space left by the departure of the Milton Keynes Kings. The MK Kings were involved in a dispute with rink operators Planet Ice, which led to their relocation to Solihull in May 2002. There they became the Solihull MK Kings before being wound up in April 2003, after a single season.
Team Members
Cowley
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Griffin
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Grinell-Parke
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Hudson
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Jamieson
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Lawday
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Tahtinen
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Showing 0 to 7 (Total: 7)Stadium or HomePlanet Ice Arena Milton Keynes is a 2,800-capacity multi-purpose ice rink/hockey rink located in Milton Keynes, England, as part of the Leisure Plaza complex (near the Central station).
Arena history
Opening
In 1990, the rink opened as the Bladerunner Arena as part of the brand new Leisure Plaza complex, located close to Milton Keynes Central railway station. The Leisure Plaza facility offered a leisure and retail complex to Milton Keynes: the location featured trees, shrubbery, family picnic areas and a large pond hosting wildlife and plants with a footbridge crossing the water. In addition to the ice rink, the new complex also featured Flamingo's nightclub, Megabowl 10-pin bowling alley, Cafe Moonshine (later Heroes sports bar), an Argos superstore and Homebase centre.
The ice rink itself boasted 2,200 seats, 3 licensed bars (one overlooking the ice surface, the other a kiosk at ice level), a restaurant, 3 function rooms (2 of which overlooked the ice surface – one having a bar), an ice sports shop, cafeteria, video games area, skate hire, 8 team changing rooms (1 reserved for the home professional ice hockey team), DJ box, management offices and an olympic sized ice pad. Its facilities and ice pad was one of several rinks which opened in the 1980s and '90s. In the early '90s two of Bladerunner's smaller changing rooms were converted into a large changing room, office and meeting area for the specific use of the Milton Keynes Kings Junior Ice Hockey Club.
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