Colorado Springs is probably as far as they could go without San Jose, LA ,Anaheim and Edmonton having an issue with it. If they went any farther east they would probably raise concern to the NHL and AHL board of governors.
I would certainly like to see that as a road trip triple play with Denver & Loveland. But the only recent news I could dig up about a hockey arena construction project in The Springs is the Robson Arena on the Colorado College campus (part of the "City for Champions (C4C)" 4-venue private/public development partnership). An AHL team sharing a college hockey arena & competing for weekend dates from October through February doesn't seem like a smart move, but maybe the short-bench Pacific Division scheduling would make it a bit easier.
Do Long Beach's and Fresno's arenas meet AHL Standards they seem like logical arena's for Pacific division AHL team relocation's but they rarely get brought up.I would certainly like to see that as a road trip triple play with Denver & Loveland. But the only recent news I could dig up about a hockey arena construction project in The Springs is the Robson Arena on the Colorado College campus (part of the "City for Champions (C4C)" 4-venue private/public development partnership). An AHL team sharing a college hockey arena & competing for weekend dates from October through February doesn't seem like a smart move, but maybe the short-bench Pacific Division scheduling would make it a bit easier.
A simple search on "Fresno" in the AHL Forum yields 7 pages of hits. That's plenty of brought up.
I Liked your post as a whole, but there has been no noise about KC in the Midwest hockey rumble for quite some time. A Clarksville-Nashville connection appears equally unlikely to me, beyond a cooperative venture for regional hockey development. But stranger things have happened in the AHL.
A St Louis AHL affiliated team in the Midwest needs a local owner or a situation like Binghamton where someone run's the business side and is responsible for any losses. The current ownership group has said multiple times they don't want to own or be responsible for the day to day operations of an ahl team.
it's been done.....Peoria, as I recall grandstanded their way into the league, at the expense of who, Centrum, WORCESTER, that's why that city is involved more today, even helping San Jose arriving there in 2006-07.....Kansas City has a franchise, and rebuked any attempts from any proposed franchise, in any league, to protect the rights of the Mavericks brand.
well, he has factually ignored the city's history, just like he claims, and when he's called out on it he ignores the true history of the issue, where was he when the discussion over that originally occurred, then Darryl, I'd MORE inclined to believe SOMEONE WHO HAS actual knowledge OF THE situation, WHETHER you believe it was right, wrong or indifferent...... THE point remains, where was Esche SUPPOSED TO FIND a franchise had the Blues elected to retain the franchise once the Kansas City option backfired.
Vegas has no interest in leaving Chicago, though, in the above scenario.... that states the Flames are interested in selling the Heat franchise to WHO, SF, Vegas doesn't own the Wolves, Levin does
you weren't there I was, Centrum, how did Utica get a franchise, then, UTICA is the Ice Cats as well as the Rivermen, THE Blues sold the franchise to Vancouver, AND REPLACED them in Chicago, when Colorado bought the Eagles UP from the ECHL, that's when the Blues landed in San Antonio....
TOTALLY AGREE, this is why the business part of the sport has gotten way out of hand, the only issue I have with Peoria really is this, as all fans should: the way the market is portrayed hence the grandstanding 'celebration' at the expense of another city or fanbase, and how that was portrayed and nothing could be done about it.
The Calgary/Stockton situation is definitely an issue.But the blues situation is not Tom Stillman does not want to have anything to do with the business of running an ahl team. There is no proof out there that they are bothered by the agreement with the rampage and would like to find a ahl location close to home.
that was after the fact, Centrum, the reason Stillman sold the franchise to Vancouver had everything to do with it....., at the time Vancouver was in Rosemont (it's not Chicago, NEVERMIND what the mailing address is)... AND then Vegas was starting.... everybody in hockey at any level knew that Kansas City was a non-starter, ESPECIALLY IF IT was Sprint Center AND the public statement about a franchise in Kansas City from a financial standpoint, was a NO.... (REMEMBER the Mavericks were known as Missouri, for much of their existence, even though they're based out of Independence).... San Antonio was the only option they had once it became public knowledge that the Mavericks wanted nothing to do with either being promoted, the way Colorado was, and even that had to be conditional on the arena being brought up to league specs.
