yes and the AHL team formerly known as the Monarchs will be an ECHL.
Yes! Thanks. I understand that.
I will not be spending my money going to the ECHL "Monarchs" games. We fans and supporters ($$) of the "real" Monarchs have been abandoned (indiscreetly I might add!) by the LA Kings after 14 years.
Our attendance ($$) record is exactly in the middle of the the AHL teams. We had a huge
+33%!!! more attendance per game this just passed year than our Calder Cup finalist contender Vancouver (Utica, New York) team.
Here not only do we have the Boston Bruins (where I am a season ticket holder), but also several collegiate hockey teams that can put the ECHL to shame!
Manchester, NH, gave as much or I should say even more than could ever have been predicted to supporting the AHL (Kings) for 14 years. And still, we get our throats cut.
So, what's the lesson?
When the Ontario Monarchs/Reign move some day 10 or 14 years from now, you will sympathize with us (I'll be dead or in an old-age medical care facility). Nothing matters in the AHL. Or in any professional sport. The AHL is dictated to and enslaved by (except for the Hersey team, God bless them) their NHL affiliates.
That is the pathetic truth.