Kirkcaldy Kestrels | |
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City | Kirkcaldy, Scotland |
League | SNL |
Founded | 1984 |
Home arena | Fife Ice Arena |
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Head coach | Steven Wishart |
Kirkcaldy Kestrels are a Scottish ice hockey team that play in the Scottish National League. They play their games at Fife Ice Arena in Kirkcaldy.
Netminders | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Catches | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
TBA | ![]() | Craig Chalmers | L | 26 December 1994 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2020 from Aberdeen Lynx | 20/21 |
Defencemen | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
8 | ![]() | Ethan Meldrum | L | 31 December 2000 | Scotland | 2019 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
27 | ![]() | Andrew Thomson | R | 17 January 2004 | Scotland | 2019 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
28 | ![]() | Iain Quinn | R | 28 February 1992 | Scotland | 2011 from Ontario Hockey Academy U18 | 20/21 | |||
51 | ![]() | Steven MacDonald | R | 5 November 1985 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2019 from Unattached | 20/21 | |||
TBA | ![]() | Kyle Horne | L | 30 September 1980 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2020 from Solway Sharks | 20/21 |
Forwards | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
6 | ![]() | Jake Grubb | L | 28 December 2003 | Scotland | 2019 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
9 | ![]() | George Pitcaithly | R | 23 July 2001 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2017 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
12 | ![]() | Finley King | L | 22 June 2003 | Scotland | 2019 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
17 | ![]() | Andrew Finlay | L | 7 September 1978 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2019 from Unattached | 20/21 | |||
18 | ![]() | Allan Anderson | R | 20 May 1989 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2015 from Fife Flyers | 20/21 | |||
71 | ![]() | Grant Jamieson | R | 7 December 1998 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2017 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
81 | ![]() | Jamie Crawford | L | 22 February 2002 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2017 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 | |||
88 | ![]() | Graeme Allan | L | 15 July 1996 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | 2012 from Fife Falcons | 20/21 |
Outgoing | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Leaving For | ||||
33 | ![]() | Euan Simpson | L | 16 February 2000 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | Murrayfield Racers |
Fife is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer. In older documents the county was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire.
Kirkcaldy is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11.6 miles (19 km) north of Edinburgh and 27.6 miles (44 km) south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, making it Fife's second-largest settlement and the 12th most populous settlement in Scotland.
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Fife Flyers is the oldest professional ice hockey club in the UK, established in 1938. The Flyers play their home games at Fife Ice Arena in Kirkcaldy which has a capacity of just over 3000.
Fife Ice Arena opened in 1938. Kirkcaldy Ice Rink was designed by architects Williamson & Hubbard. Fife Ice Arena is the home venue of the oldest ice hockey team in the UK – the Fife Flyers. It is also a venue for public skating, figure skating, speed skating, curling and ice shows. The arena has also hosted concerts, boxing, wrestling, motorcycle ice speedway and other events such as dog shows.
Kirkcaldy Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The men's side currently plays in Scottish National League Division Two and the women's side currently plays in Scottish Womens Midlands & East One.
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Jack "Jackie" Dryburgh was a Scottish ice hockey player and coach and administrator. Born in Kirkcaldy, he played for various clubs in Scotland and England during the 1950s and 1960s as well as coaching in Aviemore and Solihull. He was a member of the British Ice Hockey Association and was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Dave Dryburgh was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan.
The 1982 European Curling Championships were held from 6 to 11 December at the Kirkcaldy Ice Rink arena in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.