Ashley Tait

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Ashley Tait Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 9, 1975
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 77 kg
position striker
number # 21
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1990-1997 Nottingham Panthers
1991-1992 Lac St Louis Lions
1997-1999 Kingston Hawks
1999-2002 Nottingham Panthers
2002-2007 Coventry Blaze
2007-2009 Sheffield Steelers
2009-2010 Ritten sport
2010-2013 Sheffield Steelers
2013-2017 Coventry Blaze
2017 Milton Keynes Lightning
2017-2018 Belfast Giants
since 2018 Basingstoke bison

Ashley Tait (born August 9, 1975 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada ) is a British ice hockey player who has been under contract with Basingstoke Bison in the National Ice Hockey League as a player- coach and director of hockey operations since 2018 . His younger brother Warren is also a British national ice hockey player.

Career

Ashley Tait was born in Toronto, Canada , but came to Nottingham as a child , where he started his career as an ice hockey player in the junior division of the Nottingham Panthers , for which he played in the British Hockey League , the top division of the UK at the time, as a 15-year-old . After spending most of the 1991/92 season with the Lac St-Louis Lions in the Quebec Amateur Athletic Association , he was back in Nottingham at the end of the regular season and in the playoffs. With the Panthers he won the Autumn Cup in 1991, 1994 and 1996 . In 1997 he left the team from Robin Hood City and joined the Kingston Hawks from the second-rate British National League for two years . Then he returned to Nottingham in the now Ice Hockey Superleague called the highest British league. In 2002 he moved to Coventry Blaze and thus back to the second-rate British National League, which he was able to win with his team right away. Then the team was included in the newly founded Elite Ice Hockey League , now the highest British league. Already in the league's debut season he was the league's top scorer. In 2005 and 2007 he won the main round of the EIHL with Coventry Blaze and thus won the British championship . In both years they also won the Challenge Cup , and in 2005 they won the EIHL playoffs with a 2-1 win after extra time against Tait's former club from Nottingham. Despite these successes, he left the team from the West Midlands in 2007 and joined league rivals Sheffield Steelers , with whom he also won the main round in 2008 and the EIHL playoffs with a 2-0 win in the final against Coventry. In 2009 he was able to repeat this success, this time the Nottingham Panthers were defeated 2-0 in the final of the playoffs.

After these successes, Tait moved to the Italian Serie A1 to Ritten Sport in 2009 , with whom he was able to win the main round of the league, but lost the final series against Asiago Hockey with 0: 4 defeats. Nevertheless, he did not remain without a title in Italy, because he was able to win the Coppa Italia with Ritten with a 2-1 final win against HC Pustertal . After only one year he returned to Sheffield and was not only voted British Player of the Year in 2011, but was also able to win the main round of the EIHL and thus his fifth British championship again with the Steelers. In 2013, after six years of abstinence, he moved back to Coventry Blaze, with whom he won the EIHL playoffs in 2015 with a 4-2 final win over the Sheffield Steelers. In 2017 he moved to the new league Milton Keynes Lightning , who he left in December of that year and moved to the Belfast Giants . In 2018 he moved to Basingstoke Bison in the second-rate National Ice Hockey League , where he will work as player - coach and director of hockey operations .

International

In the junior division, Tait was on the ice for Great Britain at the U18 B European Championships in 1992 and 1993 and the U20 C World Championships in 1993 , 1994 and 1995 .

Tait played for Great Britain at the B-World Championships in 1995 , 1996 , 1998 and 2000 as well as after the conversion to the current division system at the World Championships in Division I in 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014 and 2016 . He was also on the ice for his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , 2014 in Sochi and 2018 in Pyeongchang .

With 110 appearances, Tait is the British record international player.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Serie A1 regular season 1 39 9 22nd 31 38
Serie A1 playoffs 1 6th 4th 0 4th 6th
BHL regular season 6th 174 87 127 214 345
BHL playoffs 6th 38 11 17th 28 37
BISL regular season 4th 169 35 60 95 117
BISL playoffs 4th 26th 3 7th 10 32
EIHL regular season 14th 633 209 364 573 729
EIHL playoffs 11 46 14th 19th 33 16

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Tait, Ashley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario, Canada