Binghamton to the ECHL?

[Royalsflagrunner77]

It would be nice if they did come into the ECHL it would help some of the current teams travel costs. As of right now the closest team that Reading travels to is just over 4 hours away. Binghamton would almost cut that in half. I think travel costs hurt most teams in the lower levels.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

Same disaster scenario that alienated the original STH investors for the one-n-done St. Charles Chill in the old CHL near me.

haha I remember that team. They made such a big deal about their GM being a female.

 

[JMCx4]

haha I remember that team. They made such a big deal about their GM being a female.

Nicole Kupaks was seemingly suckered into finding a buyer for the former Laredo Bucks franchise in an unfriendly minor pro hockey market by the Bucks owners, only to be left hanging in a town where she had no apparent connections. Best I could tell, she didn't last long in the Chill GM position once their one-and-only season started, hopefully of her own accord. IMO, she was a nice young lady who got played by the business.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

Best I could tell, she didn't last long in the Chill GM position once their one-and-only season started, hopefully of her own accord. IMO, she was a nice young lady who got played by the business.

Yeah, she left the Chill months before they played their one-and-done season. Her backstory is rather interesting. She left an executive job at Dell to go work for the Bucks.

 

[JMCx4]

Yeah, she left the Chill months before they played their one-and-done season. Her backstory is rather interesting. She left an executive job at Dell to go work for the Bucks.

She might have left the GM job before the season started, but she was at least acting as a team ambassador during the early part of the season because that's when I first met her. She engaged me & some friends who were visiting from the Quad Cities before one of the games we attended, thanking us for making the trip (mine was MUCH shorter). After that, she was at most of the games I attended, with her young boys.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

She might have left the GM job before the season started, but she was at least acting as a team ambassador during the early part of the season because that's when I first met her.

That's odd because she told a guy (via Twitter) on May 15, 2013 she was no longer on staff.

 

[JMCx4]

That's odd because she told a guy (via Twitter) on May 15, 2013 she was no longer on staff.

Just one more ancient hockey mystery. Back to Binghamton & the ECHL ...

 

[Andre Poodle Lussier]

It would be nice if they did come into the ECHL it would help some of the current teams travel costs. As of right now the closest team that Reading travels to is just over 4 hours away. Binghamton would almost cut that in half. I think travel costs hurt most teams in the lower levels.

This may have been said somewhere else in ECHL world but having a lot of Reading's old rivals (Reading, Toledo, Cincinnati) all in another conference really doesn't do those guys any favors. Reading probably has more history with South and Central division teams at this point since most of the North is relocations or recent expansion teams.

If you could pull Wheeling (at minimum) into the North, it'd probably help Reading a bit.

But, yeah, it'd help to get a couple more teams in the Northeast & Mid Atlantic into the ECHL...but it's probably going to be tough to pull off given AHL's been so established with a lot of these towns.

 

[sabremike]

If they get an ECHL team they need to keep the Black Bears name and logo because that thing is incredible. Whomever designed it is a genius.

 

[SemireliableSource]

You haven't seen much good design, have you?

 

[sabremike]

You haven't seen much good design, have you?

Context matters: It's a really neat homage to the Bingo Whalers that was the most absurdly brilliant logo ever (Whalers logo turned sideways to turn the W into a B)

 

[Checkers Hockey]

Context matters: It's a really neat homage to the Bingo Whalers that was the most absurdly brilliant logo ever (Whalers logo turned sideways to turn the W into a B)

I like to think this was the inspiration for the Black bears

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