The plan is to make the Federal Hockey League a twelve team league with four three-team divisions.
The cities under consideration include; Richmond, Virginia, Bloomington, Illinois, Augusta, Georgia as well as Evansville, Indiana and in Michigan, Battle Creek and Troy.
The new alignment may well look like this:
East - 1000 Islands, Danbury, (new franchise)
West - Danville, Bloomington, Evansville
Midwest - Dayton, Battle Creek & Troy
South - Richmond, Augusta, (new franchise)
I've heard the third southern team would be Winston-Salem and that Marion, IN is under consideration.
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Perhaps, before hatching pie-in-the-sky plans for more garbage hockey, they should finish a season with the same number of teams they started the season with.
Marion Indiana doesn't even have a rink. They were supposed to build an arena and break ground this spring, but the funding plan didn't work out. As of now it's dead in the water barring a creative new plan. Even if it did work out, they were openly discussing the USHL.
I guess it's only natural for a corpse to bloat if it's left out for too long....
Seriously, there's zero thought logical process here for a lot of that. There are already questions about Bloomington as a meaningful minor league hockey market, and they think that an even lower level of play will attract much interest? Or Evansville, with their already well-established team?
Marion Indiana doesn't even have a rink. They were supposed to build an arena and break ground this spring, but the funding plan didn't work out. As of now it's dead in the water barring a creative new plan. Even if it did work out, they were openly discussing the USHL.
Last update I saw when looking stuff up last night was that the bonds didn't get sold, the town isn't going to pay for it, but they see no issues with why it won't happen, just with private funding.
And it's more like the USHL was discussing them but there's been no sort of commitment from the league.
The Battle Creek Revolution were the last champs (one of two teams that didn't fold before the end of the season) of the legendary AAHL in 2010-11. Do they hope to shift Bloomington and Evansville down from actual organized pro leagues to beer league pick-up or what?
The Battle Creek Revolution were the last champs (one of two teams that didn't fold before the end of the season) of the legendary AAHL in 2010-11. Do they hope to shift Bloomington and Evansville down from actual organized pro leagues to beer league pick-up or what?
Marion Indiana doesn't even have a rink. They were supposed to build an arena and break ground this spring, but the funding plan didn't work out. As of now it's dead in the water barring a creative new plan. Even if it did work out, they were openly discussing the USHL.
Per Don Money with Pro Hockey News both leagues are annoyed at this for different reasons. The FHL has a strongly worded response in the works by some lawyers (likely the same who had ESPN Williamsport pull the post).
If this plan has any bit of legitimacy to it (aka not just made up by the ESPN Williamsport people), and I think it does, having lawyers contact someone and get it taken down is a slippery slope. You're attacking or threatening legal action against journalists for doing their job.
I was thinking of investing in an FHL expansion team myself, I have an arena ready to go too...
LOL, I know somebody who went all out and built a rink like this in their backyard. The funny part is, it was when it was the warmest winter ever in Upstate NY
Per Don Money with Pro Hockey News both leagues are annoyed at this for different reasons. The FHL has a strongly worded response in the works by some lawyers (likely the same who had ESPN Williamsport pull the post).
If this plan has any bit of legitimacy to it (aka not just made up by the ESPN Williamsport people), and I think it does, having lawyers contact someone and get it taken down is a slippery slope. You're attacking or threatening legal action against journalists for doing their job.
Per Don Money with Pro Hockey News both leagues are annoyed at this for different reasons. The FHL has a strongly worded response in the works by some lawyers (likely the same who had ESPN Williamsport pull the post).
If this plan has any bit of legitimacy to it (aka not just made up by the ESPN Williamsport people), and I think it does, having lawyers contact someone and get it taken down is a slippery slope. You're attacking or threatening legal action against journalists for doing their job.
I still have'nt read any response from the FHL on this matter, and I also don't think ESPN Williamsport made the story up. The FHL is constently looking to expand all over, so this didn't come as a surprise to me. The papers in Williamsport are trying uncover as much as possible on Kirnan and his crew, the city is extremely ticked at how much Kirnan screwed them over! And rightfully so
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Phil DeFranco
321-725-7181
The Federal Hockey League
Setting the record straight
Syracuse, NY-February 28, 2013 - Recently ESPN Radio (104.1 FM and 1050 am) in Williamsport, PA ran an article about the future of the FHL based on a quoted source yet to be identified. At no time was any FHL staff member, owner, or governor of the existing team members contacted to verify the story. At this time we would like to vociferously deny the statements in the article. At no time has any FHL staff member, owner, or governor of the existing team members ever contacted any owner of an SPHL, CHL or ECHL team in order to persuade them to jump to the FHL. They also stated in the article that the FHL would be comprised of 12 teams in four divisions. This is totally untrue. These statements have caused multiple problems with our fellow league owners, management and potential new owners as well as some of the commissioners, owners and management of other leagues mentioned in the article. This article has caused financial damage to the other leagues mentioned in the article as well as the FHL and its owners. Several leagues including the FHL have indicated that they are consulting with their legal personnel for advice on how to proceed with this matter. We asked ESPN Radio in Williamsport to take down the article which they did, however this article continues to be posted on several other social media outlets.
The inaccuracies in this article ties in with the other recent articles written regarding the FHL and its current staff members. The FHL in no way would ever try and hurt any fellow league or teams within those leagues. The FHL has sent over three hundred players to these leagues in the past three seasons alone and will continue to provide these leagues and their teams the players they need to succeed.
We would like to thank all of our fans and the other leagues for their continued support of the Federal Hockey League.
LOL, I know somebody who went all out and built a rink like this in their backyard. The funny part is, it was when it was the warmest winter ever in Upstate NY
