GMB Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team are today pleased to announce their latest “import” recruit in the shape of six feet two inch American defenceman Nick Toneys.
And Nick will be heading to the University of Derby to study a masters degree in business thanks to the new deal announced just last week between the university and the club.
Coach Corey Neilson said today : “We can’t underline the importance of deals like the one with the University of Derby enough. I said last week when we revealed the new partnership that it would make my life easier when it came to recruitment, there are a lot of players who have turned professional after going through the high class American and Canadian college systems who will jump at the chance to go ‘back to school’ while continuing to play, and so it has proven to be.
“Nick Toneys is a stay-at-home six feet plus defenceman who clears the crease well and is perfect for the job we have in mind for him. He doesn’t take too many penalties, and as a graduate from Michigan Tech and St Norbert’s College, his experience of the college system will make it an easy transition to our systems of play. This is another good signing for the GMB Panthers.”
Nick Toneys, 25, played at Augusta and Phoenix in the East Coast Hockey League last season and the year before he was at Kalamazoo in the United Hockey League.
And the blueline core has been completed with the full-time addition of hot prospect Joe Graham who dressed for the club nearly thirty times last season, after a couple of years in the EPL at Solihull. The teenager will be eighteen next month and was named man of the match in the annual England-Scotland junior international at the play-off weekend last season. Joe will wear the number 29 jersey, as worn by his father Davie who backstopped the Panthers when the club won the Wembley play-off crown twenty years ago this season.
And Nick will be heading to the University of Derby to study a masters degree in business thanks to the new deal announced just last week between the university and the club.
Coach Corey Neilson said today : “We can’t underline the importance of deals like the one with the University of Derby enough. I said last week when we revealed the new partnership that it would make my life easier when it came to recruitment, there are a lot of players who have turned professional after going through the high class American and Canadian college systems who will jump at the chance to go ‘back to school’ while continuing to play, and so it has proven to be.
“Nick Toneys is a stay-at-home six feet plus defenceman who clears the crease well and is perfect for the job we have in mind for him. He doesn’t take too many penalties, and as a graduate from Michigan Tech and St Norbert’s College, his experience of the college system will make it an easy transition to our systems of play. This is another good signing for the GMB Panthers.”
Nick Toneys, 25, played at Augusta and Phoenix in the East Coast Hockey League last season and the year before he was at Kalamazoo in the United Hockey League.
And the blueline core has been completed with the full-time addition of hot prospect Joe Graham who dressed for the club nearly thirty times last season, after a couple of years in the EPL at Solihull. The teenager will be eighteen next month and was named man of the match in the annual England-Scotland junior international at the play-off weekend last season. Joe will wear the number 29 jersey, as worn by his father Davie who backstopped the Panthers when the club won the Wembley play-off crown twenty years ago this season.
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