Hey Rockford...
| Just a quick blurb before I head out to the Wichita Falls Wildcats - Texas Tornado game in Frisco... Memo to Rockford fans... if it's access to players you want, try the USHL. What is it, anyway, with hockey fans that think AA pro is just the greatest? Is it just an unsophisticated palate? |
posted by Marc Foster at 11/17/2006 03:50:00 PM
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Anonymous said ... (10:51 AM, November 19, 2006) :
post a commentRockford may be getting a chance to see the USHL this season. I don't know if it's a done deal, but I heard the Chicago Steel was planning to move one of their home games with Sioux City out to Rockford this season.
2 of them. It's a done deal. March second and third.
If the Rockford owners really wanted to get some return on thier investment, they should just buy the Steel, and "change leagues" for next season. Leave the Steel in Chicago and have them change to the NAHL. A true 2 team feeder system with 7 lines and five goalies between them. Combine gameday operations, practice slots, training, and create the ultimate Junior Hockey Super Club. Heck for a bit more, go ahead and add a Central States team, and feed into a AAA Youth Program.
All this could be done, and be more profitalbe, for less then the combined UHL and USHL Team's current budget.
I'm 99 percent positive that Gino Gasparini had his eye on Rockford as far back as 1995. Obviously the USHL ended up in Chicago with the Steel, but it could be argued that having a USHL franchise gives one a better shot at profit than pro hockey. Amateur hockey is not for all areas of the country, but it's pretty hard to argue with the finances of the long-time, core USHL franchises.