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Nine months have passed since Sheffield Steelers' owner and EIHL chairman Tony Smith commenced negotiations with those holding the Government's sporting purse strings.

Smith and other Elite League bosses had been hoping the administration would finance a mini ice hockey season, behind closed doors, but which fans could watch on the web.

Those talks continued off and on, until November 19, when the Government announced their 'winter survival package' to help various sports navigate around the Covid crisis.

Things were looking up, it seemed.

Elite standard ice hockey was supposedly in line for £4m.

Deal or No Deal? Sheffield Steelers and EIHL hovering on the brink