Tohoku Free Blades

The Asia League Ice Hockey season kicked off this weekend

On September 7, the Yokohama Grits secured a 2-0 victory over the Tohoku Free Blades in Japan, while in South Korea, HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club dominated the Nikko Icebucks with a 5-1 win. The following day, the Tohoku Free Blades bounced back with a 5-2 win over the Grits, and the Nikko Icebucks edged out HL Anyang in a thrilling 4-3 shootout victory.

Asia League Awards

After the end of the regular season, Asia League announces the seasonal awards:

Best player award: Lee Chong Min (HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club)
Most points award: Seiji Takahashi (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Most assists award: Ryo Hashimoto (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Most points award: Kim Sang-wook (HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club)
Best save percentage GK award: Yuta Narisawa (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Newcomer Award: Riku Ishida (Tohoku Free Blaze)

All-Stars Team:
Yuta Narisawa (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Ryo Hashimoto (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Song Hyun-chul (HL Anyang)
Seiji Takahashi (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Boivin Alexander (Tohoku Free Blaze)
Shogo Nakajima (Red Eagles Hokkaido)

Oji Eagles wins Japan Cup

The Oji Eagles are the winner of Japan Cup, the tournament between Japanese teams partecipating in Asia League, not played this season due to Covid restrictions.
The Eagles dominated the season, plagued by the Covid emergency. Newly created team Yokohama Grits stopped to play in December due to the state of emergency declared in the region and were back to competition just in March to play last round. Missing games were cancelled.
Eagles Shogo Nakajima finished as top scorer with 45 points (18+27)

Nikko Ice Bucks won All Japan Ice Hockey Championship

By beating 5-1 the Tohoku Free Blades, Nikko Ice Bucks won the 87th edition of Japan Championship, the domestic competition crowning the national champion between professional, amateur and teams from Universities. As usual the Asian League teams dominated the tournament, played at the Dydo Drinco Arena in Nidìshi Tokyo, once the home of defunct Seibu Prince Rabbits team. It's the second title for the Buck

Tohoku Free Blades wins championship

Tohoku Free Blades of Japan beat Anyang Halla of South Korea for the third consecutive game to win the Asia League title.

Asia League 2011-2012

The new season of Asia League started today. Nippon Paper Cranes only scored once but that was enough to take an early lead of the league standings as they were the only team to win 3 points. The results: Free Blades-Paper Cranes 0-1, Anyang Halla-High1 4-3 (OT), Eagles-Icebucks 3-4 (SO).