BASINGSTOKE UK: The Bison have started their team building for next season with the re-signing of three of their British stars from last year.
They are Dan Scott, Dan Davies and Ivan Antonov.
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This is a great start for the Herd as all three played a big part in last season’s campaign, which was the Herd’s last in the EPL.
This season they play in the NIHL South One, following the demise of their old league.
With a limit of just two imports, the British pack at the club is going to even more important so Bison head coach Doug Sheppard is very pleased to have signed three returnees already.
“I felt we had a really good Brit core and I would hope to get most of them back. These first three names are a great start,” said Sheppard.
Defenseman Scott played a season in the Elite League with Hull  and also played nearly 300 games in the EPL mostly with Slough and Telford.
A former Great Britain junior captain at both under-18 and under-20, the six foot blue liner certainly added some more depth when he arrived in Basingstoke in the middle of last season from Telford.
The 25-year-old born in Chatham, Kent is a stay at home defenseman, but did score two goals in one play-offs, when The Herd beat one of his former teams Hull in March.
Forward Dan Davies was born in London and having come through the Haringey junior system he made his EPL debut for Bracknell, before moving down the M4 to play in Slough where he won the play-off title twice.
The 27-year-old is a solid two way player he finished last term with 43 points and was a key member of the PP and PK.
Fellow forward Antonov was born in Moskva, Russia but having played his junior hockey in Bracknell, he qualifies as a British player and for the past four years has played for GB under-18s and under-20s.
In just over 150 games in the EPL for Bracknell and the Bison he has an average of just under a point a game and this was the case last season in a Herd jersey with 44 from 47 games.
As well as announcing three returning players the Bison have also said that imports Rene Jarolin and Tomas Hiadlovsky will not be back next season, which is no real surprise as the Herd have to reduce their roster from five imports to two.
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