wildthing202
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Nice article, but the map is out of date and the divisions are wrong. ECHL has four divisions this year, three with seven teams and the north with six. Unless something happens with the rumored Wichita to Albany move Worcester will slot into the north division with Manchester, Wheeling, Elmira, Reading, Adirondack and Brampton to create four seven team divisions.
If that rumor turns out to be true Worcester will still be in the north along with Albany, and either Wheeling or Brampton switch to the central and we still have four seven team divisions.
Nice article, but the map is out of date and the divisions are wrong. ECHL has four divisions this year, three with seven teams and the north with six. Unless something happens with the rumored Wichita to Albany move Worcester will slot into the north division with Manchester, Wheeling, Elmira, Reading, Adirondack and Brampton to create four seven team divisions.
If that rumor turns out to be true Worcester will still be in the north along with Albany, and either Wheeling or Brampton switch to the central and we still have four seven team divisions.
Now if they could just figure out that the Quad Cities are in NW Illinois, not on the Kentucky border, and that Cincinnati is in the SW, not SE corner of Ohio (and Toledo appears to have moved to Cleveland, Indy to Lafayette, and Tulsa looks way too far south)
A lot of those team locations are very approximate. Wheeling is too far south and east, it should be up in that little spike of WV that fits between PA and OH. Reading is too far north and east, that location is closer to WBS.
Railers have secured an affiliation, which will be announced at the conclusion of the 2016-17 ECHL season.
Pretty even-money odds that it's the Islanders.
Yep.
Will be interesting to see how the affiliation goes if the Islanders do happen to move to Hartford though. With Boston's presumably affiliating with Manchester in the near future and the Islander's organization being so close to each other, I'd be pretty hyped for a good local rivalry.
Yep.
Will be interesting to see how the affiliation goes if the Islanders do happen to move to Hartford though. With Boston's presumably affiliating with Manchester in the near future and the Islander's organization being so close to each other, I'd be pretty hyped for a good local rivalry.
Yep.
Will be interesting to see how the affiliation goes if the Islanders do happen to move to Hartford though. With Boston's presumably affiliating with Manchester in the near future and the Islander's organization being so close to each other, I'd be pretty hyped for a good local rivalry.
Didn't Boston extend an ECHL affiliation with Atlanta for another two to three season?
https://worcestermag.com/2017/03/09/cliff-rucker-man-motion/49931
Interesting tidbit:
"Rucker started researching the ECHL, going so far as to fly to Elmira to meet with the Jackals organization in New York.
“I made an offer to buy the arena,†Rucker said. “These are little known facts, I think. The reason I was intrigued was because the arena was part of the deal. I sat with the owners and made an offer to buy the arena and the team, and to my utter shock, they rejected the offer and didn’t even counteroffer. In hindsight, thank God.â€"
https://worcestermag.com/2017/03/09/cliff-rucker-man-motion/49931
Interesting tidbit:
"Rucker started researching the ECHL, going so far as to fly to Elmira to meet with the Jackals organization in New York.
“I made an offer to buy the arena,†Rucker said. “These are little known facts, I think. The reason I was intrigued was because the arena was part of the deal. I sat with the owners and made an offer to buy the arena and the team, and to my utter shock, they rejected the offer and didn’t even counteroffer. In hindsight, thank God.â€"
Bet they're kicking themselves for not accepting his offer.
imo, Rucker did the right thing, going the expansion route, rather than inheriting a franchise that's HAD issues going back further than u can count w/ the arena and the franchise, and its past history of ownership, (AFR)
This is what bugs me the most, and that is when politicians or the so called movers and shakers of a city or market do everything they can to put barriers up to people from the outside so to speak coming to your town wanting to invest their money to establish whatever business it is. In a town like Elmira NY options are limited, its not exactly a picture of wealthy or affluent America. Nearby Corning is doing well but Elmira is a pretty depressed area as are most small cities of Upstate NY. Their economies are very reliant on government, or not for profit (text exempt) sectors such as colleges, hospitals, or other human service type industry. When a person steps in you have to do your due diligence and vetting but don't slam the door on the individual or group that wants to put forth the financial resources and capital that is pretty much a struggle for the locals.