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Monday, 14 January 2008, 22:24 GMT

GB set for Euro Challenge event

Ice hockey Great Britain have announced a 33-man squad for February's Euro Challenge tournament in France.

The team will fly out from the UK on Monday 4 February and will play three international fixtures before returning to the UK four days later.

GB will play Lithuania in Morzine on 5 February, Norway in Courchevel the following day and hosts France in Meribel the day after that.

All players in the squad will play in two of the three games.

Those from the Belfast Giants and Sheffield Steelers will miss the last game to return to the UK a day early for their domestic fixture on 8 February.

Several GB regulars were not available for selection but will be come back into the reckoning for April's World Championships in Austria.

These include Hull's David Phillips and Lee Mitchell, Nottingham's Danny Meyers and Matt Myers, Cardiff's Paul Sample, Edinburgh's Kyle Horne and Newcastle's Shaun Johnson.


Great Britain squad:

Netminders: Stevie Lyle (Belfast), Stephen Murphy (Stjernen, Norway), Joe Watkins (Guildford); Defencemen: Luke Boothroyd (Hull), Paul Dixon (Guildford), Leigh Jamieson (Belfast), Jez Lundin (Newcastle), Paul Moran (Belfast), James Morgan (Peterborough), Ben Morgan (Sheffield), Ben O'Connor (Edinburgh), James Pease (Coventry), Mark Thomas (Sheffield) Graeme Walton (Belfast) Jonathan Weaver (Coventry); Forwards Greg Chambers (Basingstoke), David Clarke (HC Alleghe, Italy), Gary Clarke (Milton Keynes), Russell Cowley (Coventry), Mark Garside (Edinburgh), Jason Hewitt (Sheffield), Marc Levers (Nottingham) David Longstaff (Newcastle), Greg Owen (Basingstoke), Jonathan Phillips (Sheffield), Nathan Rempel (Peterborough), Mark Richardson (Nottingham), Colin Shields (Newcastle), Ashley Tait (Sheffield), Warren Tait (Sheffield), Matt Towe (Cardiff), Adam Walker, (Manchester), Tom Watkins (Coventry).



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