The 2023-24 season is Ben Bowns' eighth as a Devil. 

Last season, Bowns played 32 league games posting a 2.80 goals against average and a 91.32% save percentage.  He raised the bar in the playoffs, with a 2.01 goals against and a save percentage of 94.41%.

The 2022-23 season was his first season back in Cardiff after playing away in mainland Europe for two seasons.  He spent the 2020-21 season in Austria with Graz then played a season in Slovakia with HK Dukla Trencin. 

Prior to those two years, Bowns was a mainstay in Cardiff for six seasons, leading the Devils to their most successful period in history.  From 2014-15, Bowns won two league titles, two Challenge Cups and two Playoff Championships. 

He racked up the individual awards during that period as well, winning the Elite League’s Netminder of the Year three years in a row and being selected to the league’s First All-Star Team each of those seasons (2015-2018). 

Bowns has also been the mainstay in net for Team GB, backstopping the National Team to back-to-back gold medals and promotion to the top level of the World Championships. Most recently, Bowns won Gold with Team GB and promotion back to the top level at the Worlds winning Best Netminder at the Division 1A competition in Nottingham in May 2023.