But Elmira will have the height & weight advantage ...The Ignite Cup Finals will be the Elmira Enforcers vs the Columbus River Dragons. Columbus will have home ice advantage.
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1. Same outlook as it's been for their first 11 seasons ... murky.So what's the outlook for this league for the 21-22 season? How many teams are going to come back? Which ones are relocation candidates? Seems all minor pro leagues are dealing with tremendous flux at this point.
So what's the outlook for this league for the 21-22 season? How many teams are going to come back? Which ones are relocation candidates? Seems all minor pro leagues are dealing with tremendous flux at this point.
First let it be noted that the Fed is the only league that I am aware of that never had to cancel a scheduled game due to COVID. As of right now we are expecting to have at least eight teams for next season. Danville is looking into relocating, Danbury, Carolina, Columbus, Delaware, Elmira, Port Huron and Watertown are all planning on returning and there may well be a new team or two.
No, I'm familiar with it, but I wasn't sure where things sit now coming out of covid and everything that happened this last season1. Same outlook as it's been for their first 11 seasons ... murky.
2. Refer to 1. above. Though odds are at least even that the four teams who competed in the nominal 2020-21 season (refer to the graphic in this post above) will return to play in some form in the nominal 2021-22 season.
3. All of the teams that don't simply disappear - and any franchises currently dormant/homeless/gone up in flames (e.g., Bloomington, Danville, Battle Creek, Mentor, Delaware ... ran outta room & memory to list more ...) - are candidates for relocation. Though the two active teams currently owned by Barry Soskin (Port Huron, Carolina) might be considered best bets to stay put, but even those aren't dead locks.
4. For those who haven't followed the FHL/FPHL (and I'm guessing you have stumbled into that group recently), you ain't seen "tremendous flux" in hockey before.
Thank you for chiming in.First let it be noted that the Fed is the only league that I am aware of that never had to cancel a scheduled game due to COVID. As of right now we are expecting to have at least eight teams for next season. Danville is looking into relocating, Danbury, Carolina, Columbus, Delaware, Elmira, Port Huron and Watertown are all planning on returning and there may well be a new team or two.
Ignite Cup Finals (Best of Five)
Columbus River Dragons vs. Elmira Enforcers
Game 1 – Friday, April 23 at 7:05 p.m. ET at First Arena in Elmira, New York
Game 2 – Saturday, April 24 at 7:05 p.m. ET at First Arena in Elmira, New York
Game 3 – Friday, April 30 at 7:35 p.m. ET at Columbus Civic Center, Columbus, Georgia
Game 4 – Saturday, May 1 at 6:05 p.m. ET at Columbus Civic Center, Columbus, Georgia *
Game 5 – Sunday, May 2 at 5:05 p.m. ET at Columbus Civic Center, Columbus, Georgia *
* – If Necessary
It's springtime, never ideal for ice conditions no matter the league.Before we get people doing a run in to take potshots I'd like to point out the ECHL game in Indy was apparently abandoned tonight due to ice conditions.
That was the longest game in the 11 season history of the Fed by less than a minute.Columbus wins 4-3, 4:04 into the 2nd overtime period on an innocent looking shot from the point by D-man Nate O'Brien. River Dragons heading back home, where they'll only have to win one of the three games scheduled for next weekend. Those games (or that game) will also be webcast on FPHL Live.
Timing is everything.That was the longest game in the 11 season history of the Fed by less than a minute.
You are forever the optimist. Don't ever change.... Glad to say this is likely one of the least controversial Fed seasons they’ve ever had. Granted there was the brawl between Elmira and Watertown before game 1 of the season and there were only four teams, but they could be turning over a new leaf. Next season will be huge for the future of the league.
I would have expected this post by @SargeR to cite Motor City as an existing team vs. new, as the Rockers were nominally prepared to begin play in Fall 2020.One or two new teams? I wonder if the Motor City Rockers are one of them. Or did the(y) die out?
No love for a return of the Brewster Bulldogs?BRING BACK THE RUMBLE BEES YOU COWARDS!!!!!!!