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Daily Dish: Silly Season Winter Edition - Junior Hockey
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Daily Dish: Silly Season Winter Edition Here we are, just seven days into February, and silly season is in full swing. With legislative drama going on at USA Hockey, economic realities being faced by professional teams, and greed taking the steering wheel with every ... Read More...
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If AAU, would set up a CHL type model and have 4 Top Junior Leagues: WSHL, CHL, AWHL, and EJHL. These 4 leagues champions would play for a national title. Possible, who knows. Dreaming, YES!
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The Central Hockey League would play at the Tier I level where players actually get a small per diem while playing
while the WSHL and others are pay-to-play.
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The EJHL announced on their web page that they are forming their own u16 league next season, presumably to be in compliance with USA Hockey's desire to keep u16s out of Juniors and to develop their own talent. "The new league will follow the High Performance Club Criteria developed by USA Hockey in accordance with the American Development Model. Our programs will be affordable and promote development on the ice as well as in the community and the class room." Surely this means they will not be jumping over to AAU this coming season or are you thinking things are from sorted?
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Janet,
The EJHL has organized the u16's and will follow the Performance Club Criteria... what it does not say is that the local affilates is going along with the plan. We are certain that the youth associations are less than happy that the EJHL is going to leverage the brand into a new youth level program.
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Just a week or two ago the Edmonton Journal posted that the Oilers are looking to affiliate with an ECHL club that is preferrably near OKC, so I think you might be assuming much here.
OKC is a non hockey market (Blazers gave away a lot of tickets). They sat out a goal of a 4,000 avg. last season, and finished with 4,100. Probably more paid attendance than the Blazers since they gave away around half their tickts. So with that being said, I have a hard time believing the Oilers are already finding OKC a failure. All signs still point to the fact that they are still pleased with OKC as the affiliate. They knew building a fan base here in Oklahoma would take time, so after a year and a half I question whether your source is truly credible.
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Source has always been dead-on... no reason to doubt that the rumors are flying. Ft Wayne is exploring ALL options, as they should.
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Who is the source, or let me guess you're not at peace to say? Ft. Wayne will be in the ECHL, like all signs are pointing IMO. Until I see this come from a proven credible source, because coming from a blogger who doesn't even cover professional hockey this doesn't hold much water.
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OK, thanks for visiting.
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It's also amusing that even people in Fort Wayne are laughing at this.
Here's an interesting quote, sounds like you're sources aren't always dead-on, because some posts I've read have said...
"Keep in mind Stephen Heisler is the same guy who tried to run an over 20 "junior" league team in Texarkana that tried poorly to use overagers for one failed season."
Then the next one, from the Journal Gazette out of Fort wayne...
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120207/BLOGS
If Heisler said the sky was blue, I'd look up just to make sure it wasn't red."
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"Keep in mind Stephen Heisler is the same guy who tried to run an over 20 "junior" league team in Texarkana that tried poorly to use overagers for one failed season."
Really, news to me. I do remember the Texarkana Bandits going all the way to the USA Hockey Adult Open Championship game. The same level of play that the ECHL Alaska Aces came from.
1.1 million viewers in 2011 means that I am doing something right.
If you want to believe the Ft Fun owner, so be it, but what kind of owner would not be exploring ALL the options? Especially one with a franchise like Ft Wayne?
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I wouldn't worry too much about the schmuck running that blog in Fort Wayne. He is a piss spinner of the worst kind and revels in creating controversy that he can play in.
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