The 2018-19 Siam Hockey League (SHL) season opened on Thursday October 11th to much fanfare, some guest VIPS and a huge AWARE cheering section.
The first game of the night was a replay of the SHL championship last March which Hertz won by upsetting heavily-favoured AWARE 5-3 in a winner-take-all one-game final.
The guest MC on the evening was DJ P.K. (Piyawat Kempetch) who introduced the three VIPs attending the opening night ceremony: Isaret Charithivat, from the CPN Group; Steve Lavender, of Sport Corner: and John Stevens, president of CanCham. The three participated in an accuracy shoot-out contest from center ice before the game began, which John Stevens won by hitting the orange traffic cone placed at the goal-line.
