By Tobias Carroll The city of Belfast is home to a host of professional sports teams, one of which — the soccer team Linfield F.C. — is one of the most historically successful club teams in Europe, in terms of league trophies won. The city is also home to rugby, Gaelic football and cricket — but it turns out that none of these sports quite has the draw these days of another one, more commonly associated with the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. That would be the Belfast Giants, who play in the Elite Ice Hockey League — which itself has the distinction of being the United Kingdom’s only profes…