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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie  We have an ECHL team up here, and it's pretty decent minor league pro hockey. Our Alaska Aces are defending champs and are playing well again this year. We're playing Utah tonight, which is second behind us in conference standings.
Heading to California next week, where we're gonna see a Sharks game.  |
You may have heard of the ECHL team we had here in Lafayette, LA, the Louisiana IceGators. We had record attendance for a long stretch of seasons and were 1st in the league I believe almost every year. Yet they never won the Kelly Cup. Then, almost as fast as they became popular, attendance dropped like a rock and within a few seasons of low attendance, they were gone. A team that used the same name plays locally now, but they're in the SPHL, which is a lower league with only 9 teams. They were terrible their first season and played in a bad stadium and after 1 season moved to the same place the ECHL team played which is much better. They're still not that great and their attendance hasn't been great. I have a feeling they won't last many more seasons.
It was fun to have a great team with great attendance that satisfied my hockey needs and it was sad to see it go. Now once a year or so we drive to Dallas when the Red Wings are visiting since I've been a Wings fan ever since I started watching hockey.
Well I hope you enjoy seeing the Sharks! I'd like to go see some more Stars games but it's hard to justify a 6 hour drive just to see a hockey game. We've planned a few vacations in Dallas so we could go to a Wings game but the tickets aren't cheap if you want decent seats!