Invicta Dynamos beaten by Streatham in NIHL South Division 1 but win at home to Slough Jets in the Southern Cup | Weekend of tributes to Nottingham Panthers’ Adam Johnson

Invicta Dynamos ended an emotional weekend on a high with a win over league high-flyers Slough Jets.

A week on from the tragic death of Nottingham Panthers’ Adam Johnson, teams across the country returned to the ice. There was a minute’s silence followed by an applause in the 47th minute during Invicta’s home match against Slough after similar scenes a day earlier at Streatham.

1 minutes applause here at Planet Ice Gillingham on the 47th minute of the game in memory of #AJ47 Adam Johnson. @PanthersIHC We stand together. #Hockeyfamily pic.twitter.com/hOIxAM9Hjb

The Mos team wore #AJ47 armbands as a tribute to Johnson, who lost his life in a freak accident the previous weekend in Sheffield, while every player also took to the ice wearing neck protection, which the Gillingham club have now made mandatory.

Dynamos’ decision to make neck guards compulsory early last week was followed by the English Ice Hockey Association’s announcement that protection for all players will be mandatory from December 31 onwards.

Mos' coach Karl Lennon supported the move which club acted immediately on.

He said: “We made it very clear to the players that their health and safety was more important than anything, it is not questionable.

“They will be wearing neck protection for evermore now whilst they represent this club and thankfully all of them, without any objection at all, decided to do that, which was fantastic.

“The league came out with their guidance that it would be mandatory after Christmas but we wanted to take action straight away.

“I was incredibly proud of us as a club, and the wider hockey community can be of themselves, in the way they conducted all of the various different celebrations of Adam’s life across the weekend.

“People