Phil Hill (ice hockey player)

Phil Hill
Date of birth	May 23, 1982
place of birth	Cardiff , Wales , United Kingdom
size	191 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1997-2001	Cardiff Devils
2001-2002	Nottingham Lions
2002-2006	Cardiff Devils
2006-2007	Sheffield Steelers
2007-2013	Cardiff Devils
2013-2015	Sheffield Steelers
2015-2016	Telford Tigers
since 2016	Swindon Wildcats

Phil Hill (born May 23, 1982 in Cardiff , Wales ) is a British ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Swindon Wildcats since December 2016 and has played with the club in the National Ice Hockey League since 2017 .

Career

Phil Hill began his career as a hockey player in the junior division of the Cardiff Devils in his hometown, for whose second team, the Cardiff Rage, he played at the age of 15 in the British National League , the second highest division in the UK. In 2000 he made his debut for the Devils in the Ice Hockey Superleague , the top British league at the time, but still played mostly for the junior team, the Cardiff Satans, in the British U19 league. After his team had withdrawn from the Superleague to the BNL in 2001 for financial reasons, he moved to the Nottingham Lions in the fourth-class English National League after a few match days . In 2002 he returned to his hometown, where he was on the ice for the Devils, first in the BNL and from 2003 in the newly founded top British league, the Elite Ice Hockey League . With the exception of the 2006/07 season , which he spent with the Sheffield Steelers , he stayed in Wales until 2013 and won the Challenge Cup with the Devils in 2006 . In 2013 he went back to Sheffield and was able to win the EIHL playoffs with the Steelers in 2014 and the British championship for the first time in his career with the EIHL main round victory. In 2015 he went to the Telford Tigers in the English Premier Ice Hockey League , which he left in December 2016 to switch to league rivals Swindon Wildcats . After the dissolution of EPIHL, he has been playing with his club in the National Ice Hockey League since 2017 and won the Autumn Cup and the National Cup there in the first season .

International

Hill played for Great Britain at the World Championships Division I in 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 and 2014 . He was also on the ice for his colors at the qualifying tournament for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Challenge Cup winner with the Cardiff Devils
• 2014 EIHL playoff winner with the Sheffield Steelers
• 2015 EIHL main round winner and British champion with the Sheffield Steelers
• 2018 winning the Autumn Cup and National Cup of the National Ice Hockey League with Swindon Wildcats

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
BISL regular season	1	9	0	2	2	0
BISL playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	0
EIHL regular season	13	653	130	212	342	467
EIHL playoffs	12	51	8th	9	17th	28

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

• Phil Hill at eliteprospects.com (English)