Fife Flyers unveil third British player as summer reset gains momentum
Fife Flyers have added a third British skater to their roster for the new ice hockey season.
Ethan Hadden has re-signed for the club after making his EIHL debut in 2025-26.
The Kirkcaldy born defenceman joins new recruits Reece Kelly and Ben Solder on coach Tim Wallace’s roster, along with returning team captain Garet Hunt.
Hadden, 18, came through Kirkcaldy’s junior development ranks, icing with under-16s Fife Flames and then Dundee’s under-16s team before making the leap to North America where he here he trained and studied in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Massachusetts.
His first stop was the Canadian International Hockey Academy in Rockland, Ontario. Year two took him to Notre Dame Hounds in Saskatchewan, and year three on to the Atlantic Coast Academy in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Hadden was one of a new crop of players recruited last season following the club’s change of ownership and enjoyed good ice time at the start of the campaign, and again in its closing games.
Wallace believes the GB junior player can go on to be a key player with his home town team.
He said: “Ethan is a strong skater who brings pace, compete and a physical edge to our line up. He plays the game hard, he;s reliable and he is the type of player who fits the identify we want.
We’re excited to have him with us and believe he can be a really important piece of our group moving forward.”
Hadden’s return comes just a week after the club’s “deliberate rest” in how it operates after the trials and tribulations of last season came perilously close to derailing the team.
Drawing a very clear line under the upheaval, the club said it was rebuilding around a British core supplemented by experienced EIHL skaters “who choose Fife because they want to play for this club and this community, not for any other reason.”