25 January 2010

While we get buzzed about H-town, howzabout a travel buddy?

Tom over at the EHL Tribute Blog found a group--complete with Facebook page!--devoted to the return of professional hockey in Roanoke. Personally I've always wondered how the heck Roanoke's gone as long as they have without a team, for all the history in that area.

24 January 2010

AJ: "From what I can tell, there's enough interest and buzz from the last time there was a team down here to sustain a team again"

The rest of the story, from the H-D: $5.1 million has already been approved--unanimously--by the Cabell County Commission for new seating, hockey stuff, a boiler and some concrete for the plaza out front. It's now up to City Council to figure out how to work it into the budget. This happens in March--if they can do it, we move a BIG step closer to a new team.

23 January 2010

BULLETIN

I was starting to work on a piece hypothesizing what it would take to get Marshall a D-1 NCAA Hockey program, but that's on the backburner because Big Sandy Superstore Arena OFFICIALLY wants $5 million for upgrades. Unfortunately, this is a "print exclusive", and I'm 5 hours away from the nearest Herald-Dispatch, so if anyone could please fill in the blanks for me, I'd greatly appreciate it...

20 January 2010

Reading tea leaves

Posted this comment regarding the status of our status farther down the page, thought it deserved its own entry:

Improvements do need to be made, and I know AJ at the BSSA wanted to have some improvements made. I don't foresee anything happening before July, however, with the municipal spending freeze taking effect earlier than usual (the new fiscal year kicks off July 1). Beyond this reading of tea leaves, however, I haven't heard of anything new...