HONG KONG—China Ice Hockey League (CIHL) is now half way through its 2016-17 season. Four teams with top players from around the world including Canada, America and Europe as well as good local talent battle it out each Thursday evening on the 10th floor of Mega Box. The matches are fast, skillful and hard fought to determine winners on the night and the results are logged on the CIHL website - http://www.cihl.com/
The season started in October, with 9 matches to the end of year break followed by another 10 matches including playoff, plus a final on April 5, 2017.
The teams are the same as in previous years, Hong Kong Tycoons, Macau Aces, Kowloon Warriors and South China Sharks. At the end of October, after 3 rounds of play Aces had logged 3 (6 points); Warriors also had a good October winning 2 out of the 3 matches for 4 points. Tycoons started with a win, lost the next 2 matches to give them just 2 points but Sharks, last year’s playoff winners, had a bad October finishing bottom of the pack with zero points.
