While Meyers had already moved into junior coaching, he found time on the ice to work with players limited as he organised sessions around schedules at public arenas.
He couldn’t hide his frustrations.
“It was actually my wife in the end who said ‘the only time I ever see you happy is when you are out there coaching kids, and you should build an ice rink’,” Meyers said.
He laughed off the initial suggestion, but the idea would not go away.
And so he researched what it would take to get a venue built in his home town, and what it would mean to recommit himself to a life of ice hockey.
“I went to 151 people and they said ‘no’ to me for finance and the 152nd person said ‘yes’,” Meyers said.
“I guarantored my house and I guarantored my parents’ house, rolled the dice and found a warehouse.
“What was a pipe dream, with pure stubbornness, passion and desire to make a difference here in the British game, I now find myself the owner of an ice rink – which I never thought I’d say.”