AHLFAN
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Just checked the FHL website. Was checking the teams list to see if Berlin had chosen a name yet. Berlin has been removed from the teams list. Looks like this joke of a league is at it again.
Just checked the FHL website. Was checking the teams list to see if Berlin had chosen a name yet. Berlin has been removed from the teams list. Looks like this joke of a league is at it again.
I'm sorry. I don't believe there a team bus, colors or name. Oh I forgot the bus is still in the shope being refurbished after the movie Slapshot. Sure did need alot of repairs. It is now down to 54 days and counting before the FHL season starts. The FHL sent two representative to Berlin? What did they send them for to sell the 2 or 3 season tickets they would sell. And finally the local Berlin paper is in the process of writing an article. How long does it take to write an article. This whole Berlin deal smells fishy. This is going to be like the Vermont team that became Delaware.
AHLF,
People believe what they choose to believe for whatever reasons they want to.
I spoke to a town official directly who gave me the information I posted.
To clarify my post about the article, I should have said the article is being written FOR the Berlin newspaper, NOT BY the Berlin newspaper. I did call the Berlin newspaper directly and they referred me to the town official I spoke to. The newspaper did not make any reference to an article. It was the town official who said the article was being written and he didn't know what the status was of the article.
As for the bus in Slap Shot I think it would be cool if it were the same bus and you are right if it were the same bus it would need a lot of work.
I don't know what the league representatives are doing in Berlin. I didn't ask.
I was trying to understand what if anything was going on with the proposed franchise since there seemed to be little new information. What I posted is what I was told.
As for previous forays that you allude to I can't comment. I didn't speak to anyone including the owner of the Vermont franchise, Randall Latona or the GM, Graham Kirk as it wasn't anything I was interested in knowing.
Look, I can't tell you if this team is going to be successful or not. I do know that Berlin has a rich hockey history coming from the French Canadian roots of the early settlers there. Whether that's enough to sustain a team will have to be seen.
F1
CE2,
You may recall that there was a post by a moderator previously in this thread. They too were interested in sources.
I provided information for the mod as to where and how I got the information and the mod deleted his post.
Conversely, you certainly have the option to do just what I did to find the information and confirm what I posted. I'm pretty sure I outlined the steps I took earlier in the thread.
I posted what I had gotten so as to provide insight to the original question posed regarding the status of the new franchise in Berlin.
Why the league and or the town hasn't made announcements is still a question worth an answer but I can't provide any information to that point as I didn't ask those questions.
Feel free to contact the Fed league president and ask him.
F1
Unacceptable. Until you name sources, it's speculation regardless of which moderator "vetted" your "information."
If you choose to, you can do exactly what I did with only a couple of calls.
F1
Just checked the FHL website. Was checking the teams list to see if Berlin had chosen a name yet. Berlin has been removed from the teams list. Looks like this joke of a league is at it again.
The Berlin team will be a power in the league. On and off the ice. The current league owners need to realize that the league needs a new direction. The direction they have been going is backwards. Four years of nothing. Any half legitimate team who wants to join the current owners should have the red carpet rolled out for them. Danbury ownership should kiss their tushy. The rivalry could be huge. Berlin is the original HockeyTown USA. They might even put the crossed goalie sticks back at the foot of town. Whoever thought of bringing hockey back to Berlin is as sharp as a tack. The marblehead owners who control things better realize what they have here.
The arena is getting a facelift and the league would get one in kind. A change for the better. Then work on the leagues talent level. Get rid of the dregs and nepotism. Run things as legitimately as possible at that level.
Thanks for the compliment. Chutzpa is my middle name. There are more hockey fans in that little 10,000 pop. town than Danville, Dayton, and SWPA combined. Enthusiasm + common sense = Berlin, NH.I doubt a town of 10,000 people could be that influential in anything, let alone the cornerstone of a theoretically pro hockey league, but your enthusiasm is admirable...
F1,
Sorry to say that the information from your friend is very incorrect… Pirates ownership do have anything to do with the Colisee at all other than renting ice time for its youth hockey program. The Colisee is owned by Firland Management, which is owned by Jim Cain. That may have confused your friend because the majority owner of the Pirates is Ron Cain. They have the same last name, but there is no relationship between either people.
Also, the FHL attempted Lewiston once before and it was a disaster because people didn’t accept the level of hockey for its goonish/phony appearance and they didn’t accept it because it came on the heels of the Maineiacs leaving and there was still a lot of hurt feelings.
Plus, the Colisee already has a fulltime tenant right now with the Maine Timberwolves of the NSHL. They signed a long term lease agreement last month to play at the Colisee.