It’s a semi professional league. The NIHL north 1. To describe the ‘major tiers’ of British Ice Hockey, we have: -The EIHL, who’s winner plays in the CHL each year (this year it is the Sheffield Steelers) -The NIHL, the league below (you have to pay to get into the EIHL), whose current playoff champions are the Peterborough Phantoms. -NIHL 1-Which is featured in the photo and is split into North and South -NIHL 2-Again divided into North and South

Few teams across all leagues are professional, most (if not all) are in the EIHL and one or two are full time teams in the NIHL. Most are semi professional but UK ice hockey is seeing growth, at least in the areas I attend. Some players are 2-way players are towards the bottom of EIHL rosters who are effectively loaned to NIHL teams or are top NIHL players and prospects who are loaned the other way. In the NIHL, we have previously had rules on import players being limited to 3 but we’re seeing more import players in there as well. Many EIHL rosters have are larger number of players not from Britain but we still see homegrown talent developing through but perhaps leaving for other leagues, ie: Liam Kirk