Bygones: Alternative form of entertainment soon makes its mark on the ice in Steel City
A month or so earlier, the Sheffield Steelers had been born, the brainchild of businessman David Gardner-Brown and driven forward by Scottish international forward Ronnie Wood, a former coach at the Solihull Barons, who had been enticed to South Yorkshire to act as general manager with a remit to sell the new concept to an unsuspecting city.
Starting out in what was then known as English Division One, the Steelers began life with a roster comprised mainly of players from the Sheffield Sabres, a largely amateur team who had played for a number of years out of the city’s Queen Street rink in front of an average 200 spectators.
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