OSHL done.

[Taranis_24]

Reported on Sportsnet.ca

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/index.jsp

League poorly organized, players expenses not paid and that the players have returned home.

Click to read more...

 

[tantalum]

No suprise. They drewless than 3000 fans TOTAL for the two games in Halifax.

 

[littleHossa]

At least they had fun..

 

[BLONG7]

Maybe these guys will now realize what expenses are involved in getting a league up and running... and the revenue that it takes to generate a profit so all expenses can be covered...Maybe before they folded they could of called Knob Goodenow for a loan to keep things afloat for awhile, he KNOWS all about the economics of how to run a business in a hockey environment!

 

[chara]

Good.

Message to the players: Get your butts back to the table and get a deal done. 'Keep in shape' on your own dime.

 

[Kravitch]

Why do people think the NHL is just another league that could easily be replaced?

 

[Bicycle Repairman]

Why do people keep thinking that the OSHL was a players-initiated project?

And more importantly, how much food is not going to be "on the table" because of this unfortunate development?

 

[BLONG7]

Why do people keep thinking that the OSHL was a players-initiated project?

And more importantly, how much food is not going to be "on the table" because of this unfortunate development?

It wasn't players initiated? So who did start up this brain fart of an idea?

 

[Cawz]

It wasn't players initiated? So who did start up this brain fart of an idea?

"The OSHL, an idea of Ontario's Randy Gumbley...

Gumbley is the owner and coach of a Junior A team near Toronto; in the off-season he conducts hockey camps....

When Gumbley started floating his concept to player agents he knew, his idea met with curiosity rather than skepticism..."

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=4523

 

[BLONG7]

"The OSHL, an idea of Ontario's Randy Gumbley...

Gumbley is the owner and coach of a Junior A team near Toronto; in the off-season he conducts hockey camps....

When Gumbley started floating his concept to player agents he knew, his idea met with curiosity rather than skepticism..."

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=4523

Thanks, I didn't realize this.

 

[Cawz]

Thanks, I didn't realize this.

Me neither. I looked it up and found that.