Matt

Matt is the Ice Hockey main man for thisisUll.com. He is a committed Hull Stingrays fan and has reported on almost all of last seasons games. He has worked hard to promote the sport he loves, ice hockey her in Hull. At the end of last season the Stingrays presented Matt with a shirt signed by the whole team for his reports. Page 2 Matts contributions are listed below.. Page 1, Page 2.

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Guildford Flames 10th Oct 04 By Matt, Photos by Arthur Foster, Video by Raymond Hogan

	Hull Stingrays followed up last weeks four point weekend with a home win and an away loss against last seasons playoff champions, the Guildford Flames. Hull managed to recover well after being beat 5-2 at the Spectrum Arena - they managed to claw their way back and get a 3-2 win at home. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Peterborough Phantoms - 3rd October 2004 By Matt, Photos by Arthur Foster

	Hull Stingrays followed up their first away win of the season with a 5-4 victory over Peterborough Phantoms. Peterborough soon opened the scoring 22 seconds after Kudrna came out of his net and hit the puck straight at Rieciciar and the puck went straight into the net. On the five minutes Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Nottingham Panthers - 26 September 2004 By Matt and Liam

	Hull Stingrays Failed to follow up their victory over Sheffield and their draw with Guildford as they fell to a 6-2 home defeat to Nottingham Panthers today. Nottingham came out with all guns blazing and on eleven minutes managed to get the breakthrough goal with Krulis hitting home. Only one minute Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Sheffield Steelers - 19 September 2004 By Matt

	The Hull Stingrays first competitive match against the one mighty Sheffield Steelers ended with a victory for the Stingrays after a match that had everything. It was end to end but both teams dominated parts of the match. Both teams came out looking to test the water and Sheffield had a early Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Guildford Flames - 12 September 2004 By Matt

	Tonight The Stingrays where host to the Guildford Flames in their first game against FBNL opposition and not much has changed since last season. The Stingrays took the lead; the refereeing was awful and yes, Hull then threw the lead away. Kahut opened the scoring for The Flames just before the 10 minute mark Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs Nottingham Panthers - 11 September 2004 By Matt

	Hull Stingray's first away game of the season ended in defeat but the team can leave with their heads held high after keeping the Nottingham Panthers to only two goals and keeping the Panthers fans very quiet. The Stingrays must have been fearing Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Fife Flyers - 28th Feb 2004

	Fife Flyers won the FBNL league championship with a four goals to three win over Hull Stingrays after overtime. The first period was end to end but neither team managed to find the back of the net despite both teams having five on three power plays. The scoring started early in the second period with Finley opening the scoring for Fife. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Newcastle Vipers - 22nd Feb 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Hull Stingrays lost their sixth game in a row with a 4-2 loss at home to a short-benched Newcastle Vipers. In a fairly boring first period the Vipers took advantage of a wide gap outright and Wallace finished of a Longstaff pass with 12.10 gone in the game. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Edinburgh Capitals - 9th Feb 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Hull Stingrays followed up their 2-2 draw with Bracknell the previous night with a 5-1 defeat against Edinburgh Capitals. If lady luck had been on Hulls side the result could have been very different. They had a bag full of chances but Kundra did extremely well to keep Hull down to only one goal. Edinbrough opened the scoring after almost.. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Fife Flyers - 25th Jan 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Check the match gallery photographs. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Bracknell Bees - 24th Jan 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Check the match gallery. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Newcastle Vipers - 31st Jan 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Two goals from Andrei Nikolaev saw the Stingrays beat Newcastle Vipers 4-3. Slava koulikov opened the scoring after just 18 seconds; Nikolaev hit a drop pass to koulikov who hit home from the blue line leaving former Hull netminder Pasi Raitanen stranded. After seven and a half minutes gone a delayed penalty .. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Newcastle Vipers - 10th Jan 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Hull Stingrays lost to the Newcastle Vipers despite out-shooting their opposition 36 shots to 25. Hull came out all guns blazing and should have come out of the first period with at least a one goal advantage. Early in the second period, Simon Leech served a two minute penalty for high sticks. Dru Burgess almost scored his first goal.. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Bracknell Bees - 4 January 2004

	By Matt with Video AVI's of The Game Hull Stingrays good form continued even though they lost 0-1 in overtime to high-budget Bracknell Bees at the Hull arena this afternoon. The only goal of the game came when, with forty seconds left, Allison found himself with a free run at the goal and scored on his backhand past .. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Fife Flyers - 7 Dec 2003

	By Matt with 5 Video AVI's of The Game The Stingrays failed to follow up their 4-2 win yesterday against Dundee as they lost 3-1 to the Fife Flyers. Hull came out looking much like the same team that sent Dundee packing the night before and took the lead after 19 minutes and ten minutes when Alipov struck home. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Dundee Stars - 6 Dec 2003

	By Matt A much improved Hull Stingrays got their first win of the season today against top of the league Dundee Stars. Andrei Nikolaev opened the scoring after just 22 seconds of play following a well-worked setup from a new look first line, with Noel Burkitt moving up from the second and Evgeny Alipov moving from the first. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Edinburgh Capitals - 29 Nov 2003

	By Matt with 1 Video AVI's of The Game A poor performance from the Hull Stingrays saw them lose their third game in a row and sees them rooted to the foot of the table with only one draw this season. Edinburgh were the better of two poor teams, with both lacking passion and desire in a game with few chances and not much energy. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Dundee Stars - 9 Nov 2003

By Matt with Video AVI of Tonight's Game Hull Stingrays got their second point of the season after a gruelling encounter at the Hull arena with the Dundee Stars. The game exploded into life after just 2 minutes when Dino Bouba opened the scoring, Slava Koulikov then went on to score a unanswered hat-trick; the first after four minutes, while Hopkins was sitting out a two minute penalty for.. Read more...

Sports - Hull Stingrays vs. Edinburgh Capitals - 22 Nov 2003

By Matt with 2 Video AVI's of Tonight's Game Hull Stingrays failed to get their first win of the season despite leading 2-1 with only five minutes left in the game. Edinburgh's man of the match Jan Krajicek scored the game-tying goal with 4 minutes and 55 seconds left on the clock. A goal after 13 minutes from Miroslav Droppa had given Edinburgh a first period advantage and Hull didn't... Read more...