Welcome to the 2009 Queenstown Ice Hockey Club Season....

No National League Cup for the Stampede this year but they did put up a good fight!

Final Score 5-4 to the Red Devils.
Visit the official Southern Stampede website. www.southernstampede.co.nz

Finland Bound ...

Queenstown's Quinn Drake, 15, is heading to Finland to learn ice hockey from some of the world's best coaches.
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Ice Blacks in Queenstown

View the photos from the Ice Blacks vs HC Storm game here in Queenstown. Thanks to James Allan from the Mountain Scene for taking such great shots.

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A little history...

Ice skating has been popular in the Queenstown area since the early 1900s. During the 1930s there were very severe winters and it was common for Moke Lake and Lake Dispute to freeze over with fifteen centimetres of ice. The Park Pond, which is near the present ice rink, also used to freeze over for two months each winter.
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