Gardiner Conference

The Gardiner Conference was one of three conferences in the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and comprised Three teams. Its counterparts were the Erhardt Conference and the newly formed, for the 2017-18 season, Patton Conference. It was named after former Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Charlie Gardiner and was introduced for the 2012–13 EIHL season. The Gardiner Conference Championship was played for over 24 regular season games, each team playing the other two teams eight times (four home and four away). The winner received the Gardiner Trophy and is seeded in the top three (the exact seed dependent on the overall League Championship final standings) for the end-of-season Elite League Play-Offs. These 24 games also made up the total of 56 regular season games which decided the overall League Champions of the Elite Ice Hockey League.

Clubs

Gardiner clubs
Club	Established	City	Stadium	Capacity*
Glasgow Clan	2010	Glasgow	Braehead Arena	3,750
Dundee Stars	2001	Dundee	Dundee Ice Arena	2,400
Fife Flyers	1938	Kirkcaldy	Fife Ice Arena	2,414

Former Teams

Former Gardiner clubs
Club	Years	City	Stadium	Capacity*
Hull Stingrays	2003-2015	Hull	Hull Arena	3,150
Edinburgh Capitals	1998-2018	Edinburgh	Murrayfield Ice Arena	3,800
Manchester Storm	1995-2002	Altrincham	Silver Blades Ice Rink Altrincham	2,100

Winners

SEASON	CHAMPIONS	RUNNERS-UP
2012-13	Glasgow Clan	Fife Flyers
2013-14	Dundee Stars	Hull Stingrays
2014-15	Glasgow Clan	Fife Flyers
2015-16	Glasgow Clan	Fife Flyers
2016-17	Glasgow Clan	Dundee Stars
2017-18	Fife Flyers	Glasgow Clan
2018-19	Glasgow Clan	Dundee Stars

Results

	Club	Wins	Runners up	Winning Years
1	Glasgow Clan	5	1	2012-13, 2015-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2018-19
2	Fife Flyers	1	3	2017-18
3	Dundee Stars	1	2	2013-14
4	Hull Stingrays	0	1	N/A

External links

• Elite Ice Hockey League Official Site
• Hockeystats Elite League
• British Ice Hockey
• Ice Hockey UK
• BBC Sport Ice Hockey
• Hockey Database

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