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Coventry Blaze NIHL

UK ice hockey team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5179051 ↗
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The Coventry Blaze NIHL are a British ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They are the NIHL affiliate of Coventry Blaze of the EIHL. The team started life as the Coventry Blaze (ENL) in 2007, changing their name to the Coventry Blaze NIHL ahead of the 2012–13 season. The team often provides many juniors competitive ice time. The team withdrew from the 2019–20 season, after being unable to replace the players that had left during the off-season, returning to NIHL action ahead of the 2020–21 season.

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The public source identifies “Coventry Blaze NIHL” as uK ice hockey team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Coventry, Blaze and NIHL.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coventry Blaze NIHL” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.