by Kaminskas, December also saw a surprise returnee, when Adam Bicknell rejoined the team. After Dumas took the decision to retire from hockey at the end of the 2009–10 season, Gareth Cox was appointed as the new head coach. Cox had been the coach the Bracknell Hornets English National League team for a number of years, leading them to a playoff title before moving to the Bees. He brought a number of young players with him from the Hornets and kept the core of Dumas' squad from the previous year together including EPL player of the year Jaroslav Cesky who stayed at the club with line mate Pinc despite receiving rumoured lucrative offers from elsewhere. However, things didn't go to plan and Bees finished the season at the foot of the EPL table. For the 2011–12 season, assistant coach, Greg Randall left to join the Peterborough Phantoms and was replaced by Lukas Smital, a former Bee and Cox's former assistant with the Hornets. Smítal was already the head coach of the Bracknell Ice Hockey Club and upon his return to the Bees, also took on the role of head coach to their senior team, Bracknell Hornets, while Cox also took on the head coach role with the Under 18 team, Bracknell Drones. Together, the pair set about rebuilding the Bees from the bottom up, bringing back former Bees, Martin Máša, Matt Foord, Shaun Thompson, Carl Graham, Tom Annetts and Brad Watchorn, and adding some players used to competing at the top end of the table, including Guildford captain, Rob Lamey and Slough pair, Michael Bowman and Andy Munroe. Bees showed a big improvement, doubling their points tally of the previous season, but still missing out on post-season play, finishing 9th, with only Telford behind them 2012-13 saw far less changes, with coach Gareth Cox choosing to just tweak what he had. Peter Jasik moved from the Bees to the Hornets and giant Latvian defenceman, Sergejs Louskins both departed, and Bees went with two import defencemen in Jan Bendik and Marcel Petran. Petran had a good offer from abroad during the season and left, to be replaced by Pavel Strycek. The tweaks worked and Bees made the play-offs, with a 6th-place finish, but after a first leg win against Manchester, a 7–2 defeat in Altrincham saw Bees exit at the quarter final stage Precision Sports Marketing Eleftheriou and Robinson confirmed their