Aspray Chester Deeside Dragons are a

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team that play in the

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, north division. They play their games at

Deeside Leisure Centre Deeside Leisure Centre is a sports centre located in Queensferry, Flintshire. Its facilities include Deeside Ice Rink (an Olympic-sized inline hockey rink), badminton courts, and squash courts. The centre was the venue for the 1974 Wightman Cup ...

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, and replaced the previous team

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. They won the North League championship in the 2015/16 season, with a record of 24-3-1 as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs. For the 2022/23 season the club has Aspray Chester as the clubs title sponsor. The 2022/23 season see's the return of ice hockey to North Wales for the first time in over 2 years, due to the ice rink being used as a field hospital and later a vaccination centre for North East Wales. In July 2015 it was reported that the Dragons had been bought by Red Hockey Limited, a British Company who own the

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English Premier League Ice Hockey team as well as having stakes in

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and

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. In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and

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which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents

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walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game. Dragons player Alex Roberts received a three-game ban as a result of this incident. In July 2016 it was announced that Scott McKenzie had left the Widnes Wild to join the Dragons as player-coach. He left the following year. At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.

Season-by-season record

Club roster 2022-23

2021/22 Outgoing

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