Past Times

The Aberdonian: Hitting the target with ice hockey

1993 - Canadian engineer David Norman, bottom, with Aberdeen North Stars players Jim Tarlton, Owen Reynolds, Gordon Barclay, Peter Leyden and Geoff Kennedy.

By Reporter

November 21 2021, 5:00 pm

November 21 2021, 5:00 pm

It’s time to hit the ice and skate through memories of Aberdeen’s ice hockey clubs.

Can you spot some familiar faces among the Aberdeen Lynx, Aberdeen North Stars or the women’s ice hockey team?

2001 – Aberdeen’s Calum MacEachran is nominated for the Chris Anderson Memorial Award

1993 – Facing up at the Links Arena are Barbara Smith, left, and Tammie Connon

1992 – Aberdeen’s new ice hockey team, the North Stars, based at the city’s Linx Arena

1990 – Aberdeen North Stars chairman Ray Still and junior member Steven McGown at the formation of the club

1990 – Aberdeen North Stars chairman Ray Still and junior member Steven McGown at the formation of the club

1995 – North Stars Ice hockey coach Maureen Bryce at the Linx Ice Arena

1985 – Aviemore Black Hawks are off to Oxford to play in the Division Two British Championship play-offs

1992 – Aberdeen players Gregor Kennedy, left, and Steven McGowan get in some practice

1994 – Aberdeen North Stars Ray Still, Gordon Barclay, Bryan Bunn and Barry Flippence, before their match <br />against Murrayfield Pirates

1994 – New North Stars mascot Stefan Hoggan, 15 months, with dad Allan and David Stewart

1995 – North Stars coach Maureen Bryce takes a training session at the Linx Arena

1995 – Vikings of Stavanger star Jan Peter Loschbrandt, second left, and Andrew Howard, Owen Reynolds and Steven McGowan

More from Past Times

Image: DCT/Roddie Reid.

1970: Re-live the celebrations when the Dons took the Scottish Cup from Celtic

Technician George Hepburn at work cleaning the grime off the mummies' coffins with bread in 1981. Image: DC Thomson

In photos: Memories of mummies and antiquities at Marischal College Museum

Aberdeen's Art Deco Northern Hotel building, pictured in 1983, remains a striking landmark on Great Northern Road. Image: DC Thomson

In photos: The faded Art Deco glory of Aberdeen's Northern Hotel over the years

Image: DCT/Shutterstock/Roddie Reid

1966: Buckie captain orders abandon ship in cruise liner inferno off Cuba

Elgin Cathedral viewed through trees.

Elgin Cathedral: The rise, fall and rise of the Lantern of the North

The Middle School site at the corner of Littlejohn Street and the Gallowgate in 1962. Image: DC Thomson

In photos: Looking back at 5 lost schools of Aberdeen

Gayle checks out little-known Keith's Tower near Durris. Image: Gayle Ritchie.

Exploring 200-year-old gothic tower hidden in woods in Durris

Some of the artifacts on display at the new Mary Queen of Scots exhibition

See rare Mary Queen of Scots artefacts, including her hair, at new Highland exhibition

Corse School, located six miles from Huntly, was built in 1877 and retains many original features. Image: Google Streetview

147-year-old Victorian school near Huntly on the market for just £35,000

Image: DCT Design/Emma Goodman

1966: All hands lost when MacBrayne Mull ferry-turned-pleasure-boat foundered on its way to Inverness