Cardiff Devils will open the 2025/26 Elite Ice Hockey League pre-season this Saturday night once they welcome France’s Rapaces de Hole to the Vindico Enviornment.
The Devils have been in camp all week and would be the first EIHL staff to start warm-up video games forward of the brand new marketing campaign. Belfast Giants, Glasgow Clan, and Nottingham Panthers will all be part of the motion subsequent weekend, every additionally going through abroad opposition.
Cardiff face Hole twice this weekend with a sport every on Saturday and Sunday.
Head Coach Paul Thompson, who can be behind the Devils’ bench for the primary time since becoming a member of within the low season, stated forward of the weekend’s video games:
“We’ll be trying to create some chemistry with the brand new strains and the brand new gamers coming in. It’s early days, Hole can be a few weeks forward of us when it comes to their preparation and conditioning and at the moment of 12 months that makes fairly a distinction.
I’m searching for chemistry, after which after the weekend we’ll break the video games down for our gamers and transfer on from there with what we wish to do as a staff.”
Hole narrowly prevented relegation from France’s prime tier after ending final in each the common season and the play-out spherical. No staff from the division beneath met the required necessities to compete in Ligue Magnus, which means Hole retained their place within the league.
