Caveat hockey-tor

A fellow named Bobby Big Wheel has a nice write-up on the future of minor league hockey over at Stephen Heisler's AmericanProHockey.com webpage. A little food for thought for everyone while we wait for next month to roll in...

We have our day

Huntington City Council takes up the Big Sandy Superstore Arena's future on March 20. Yes, that's a Saturday, so for those of you that don't live five hours away, you have few excuses to drop by... unless of course we get another two feet of snow (the way this winter has been I wouldn't be surprised if it snows until April).

While we celebrate our hopes, a moment of silence...

...Johnstown is apparently set to lose the Chiefs to Greenville, SC. While I have a soft spot for Southern hockey fans--and Greenville had a good run with the Grrrowl (am I getting the number of r's correct there?)--Johnstown is the last original franchise still in its original city in the ECHL. This has potential ramifications down and across the state line in Wheeling, which for geographic and economic reasons is seemingly always paired with Johnstown when relocation/franchise fold rumors pop up...

Roller hockey!

Up the river in Portsmouth, Shawnee State University has run a club roller hockey team since 2007; they're currently in Division III of the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association, where they've gone 13-11-3 in their two seasons at this level. With any luck they're about to pick up a down-river rival: a roller hockey club is now forming at Marshall. They've spent this season playing scrimmages, with an eye toward intercollegiate competition next fall.

For those interested, they play Monday nights @ 9 at the Fieldhouse; they have two full squads and a third looking for a goalie...

Finding more stuff on Facebook

Besides the Huntington and Roanoke groups, there is also now a group for the displaced fans of Greensboro. In the meantime, here's some bloodshed to tide you guys over!

Momentum is building

WSAZ ran a story on hockey's possible return yesterday. Meanwhile, the Facebook group--a little over three days old--is at over 200 members and growing, ranging from old-school Blizzard fans to high schoolers to even a few old Blizzard players! I'm excited, what about you guys?

More Facebooking!

We now have our own Facebook group, "Bring Hockey Back to Huntington, WV", thanks to the always awesome Bill Sawyers, who also found this bit uploaded by the WOWK Weather Center's YouTube account: