The Peoria Rivermen have also won four William B. Coffey Trophies, while Pensacola has also won four President's Cups. Not only would the team be the third tenant in the building, they'll be competing with FSU football in the fall, successful basketball (men's and women's), and baseball in the spring for the sports dollar. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights, scores and more. [7], The following players are sorted by points, then goals. Ticker Tape by TradingView. "The (national) gas shortage hit our area hard, and was impacting Pensacola, too," Price said, laughing. The Atlantic Coast Hockey League started play in the 200203 season. Its hard to predict exactly where their next team would go. The city was formerly home to one of the World Hockey Associations most successful teams in the Houston Aeros. Founded in 2009, The Hockey Writers is a premier destination for news and information on everything hockey. [6], GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout loss, For 2022, the format returned to the top eight teams at the end of the regular season qualifying for the playoffs. Pros: Obviously, built-in rivalry and ease of travel for the Whitecaps, plus can help provide a place for even more NCAAers to play after college, which is always a good thing. Minnesota is the furthest of the six PHF teams and thus has to spend the most just to travel to play the rest of the league. It's the first step toward reuniting what will be an 11-team league as Peoria, Quad City, Evansville, Fayetteville and Roanoke return after opting out of the 2020-21 campaign. The NHL isnt going to stay at 32 teams forever, so when will the next wave of teams come? Bill Foley and the other owners of the Golden Knights paid an outstanding $500 million dollar expansion fee for their new team. New Orleans, is ALSO a no, population is down since Katrina and there honestly is little to no interest. Originally known as the Commissioner's Cup, the regular season championship trophy was renamed in honor of league co-founder Bill Coffey during the 200708 season. Atlanta, Louisville, and NOLA are out of the question. Do you have a link. Subscribers help us in telling those stories. Running on empty: SPHL commissioner Doug Price, who is based in Charlotte, N.C., did not attend Game 1 of the championship series in which Macon played at Pensacola. With the Canadian dollar weaker than the United States dollar, its not the optimal business situation for the NHL to expand north of the border. 1 Pd 0:49. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. The 1967 expansion fee was so low in comparison because the league and its revenues were a fraction of what they are today. The White Sox have signed left-hander Ricardo Snchez to a minor league deal, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. [2][3], .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}z indicates team has clinched William B. Coffey Trophy (regular season champion) and a playoff spot Voted winner: Draw (50%) - Voted rating: 0 Vote / Details . A mouthpiece is required for all players except the goaltender. Left wing: Jordan Ernst, Darren McCormick, Robin Hoglund, Mitch McPherson. If a lockout does happen, expect the NHL to shelve any ideas of expanding to new cities. I could be wrong). Website designed and maintained by LDD Web Design, PHN Staff Report with official press release. Photos / 3 days ago. 3 Pd 11:50. From U12 to U19 teams, college club teams in nearby Maryland, and the Mid-Atlantic Womens Hockey League, its a safe bet youll get some instant fans and also be able to cultivate some homegrown talent. Between that and a pretty clear statement by the commissioner that nothing is happening, this rumor seems dead. By no means is the NHL playing copycat, but until another league shows it can support more than 32 teams, I dont expect the NHL to experiment. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Still, the strength and interest in professional hockey have been evident across all three professional North American leagues and are causing a wave of growth. HUNTERSVILLE, NC The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) today announced that it will be expanding to Danville, IL following a unanimous vote of approval by the board of the David S. Palmer Arena and the SPHL Board of Governors. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. But while were on the topic of expansion, I think there are a few cities the league could really plant roots in. Players selected to the Bobcats were left unprotected by their returning team and therefore eligible for the draft pool. The SPHL's history traces back to three other short-lived leagues. Chicago provides a nice midpoint between the Twin Cities and its next closest neighbor, Buffalo, and is (I believe) a big enough city to handle a pro womens team. Pensacola Rivermen:Alec Hagaman won an SPHL title with Pensacola. In the meantime, lets hope we see one or more of these cities welcome the PHF into the fold. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. With the announcement on Jan. 18 of the Board of Governors' $25 million investment in the PHF came a bit of a buried lede: that being the expansion of the league to 10 teams come the 2023-24 season. As the Vermillion County Bobcats, the team will take to the ice for the upcoming 2021-2022 SPHL season. Following the 2017-18 season, the Mississippi RiverKingssuspended operations while the league searched for new owners. Wait are you serious? When they consider expansion again, who knows what that fee will climb to. The success of the Golden Knights might convince the NHL to consider other out-of-the-box markets. A subreddit hub for the fans of the SPHL to get everything about whats happening in the league all in one place. There is again tons of talent to pull from, with RMU and Mercyhurst close by and Penn State just a couple of hours away, to say nothing of some of the neighboring states and their options. He is on the Rivermen protected list, too. Savannah, Georgia, is already planning its inaugural season after a confirmed expansion bid to start play in 2022-23. Some of them are a bit more obvious than others, but I think each of these has its pros and cons when it comes to rounding out a full-fledged league. Tag: SPHL Expansion Rumors. Assume the NHL wants to stay stateside for the foreseeable future. Starting from the ground up requires investors, an audience, a city, players, and much more. Eye of Ra; May 6, 2022; 2. The Rivermen turned in their list of protected 13 players for the 2021-22 season, and the league will announce those for all of its teams on Friday. With rumors of a stagnant salary cap, big names in need of new contracts across the league, expansion requirements, and free agency, Seattle is joining the league at a fun and opportune time. One of the inaugural SPHL teams, the Columbus Cottonmouths, suspended operations in 2017 after failing to find a buyer while an expansion team called the Birmingham Bulls were accepted into the league as the tenth team. On October 20th, 2015 the Southern Professional Hockey League announced the move of the Mississippi Surge to Roanoke, VA, who will return to the ice for the 2016-2017. As the league grows, the expansion fee will increase. Be the best Big 12 Expansion Rumors fan you can be with Bleacher Report. The Iowa Wild of the AHL already hold an affiliation with the NHLs Minnesota Wild, add in the locale and recent relocations to make shorter trips for call-ups between the three leagues and evidence leans toward Minnesota. This would be awesome. Updated as of April 10, 2022. February 28, 2023 - HUNTERSVILLE, NC. [9][10] For the 201314 season, the league lost the Augusta RiverHawks but also expanded northward with two franchises in Illinois: the Bloomington Thunder, a team also moving from the CHL, where they were known as the Bloomington Blaze, and the Peoria Rivermen, who were replacing an American Hockey League team of the same name in their market. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Calm, cool and collected. Still, if the PHF is looking to tie Minnesota to the rest of the league, this would be a great place to start. With him at the helm they're bound to the FPHL or whatever becomes of it. Want a gateway to the South? [6][7] In 2010, the league added an expansion team in Augusta, Georgia, another former long time ECHL market. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I just want to know your opinion on these future possible sphl expansions New Orleans Tallahassee Mobile Iowa city Memphis Downtown Atlanta Louisville Lexington Savannah Jackson . North Carolina is also right next door. The 2021-22 SPHL season was the 18th season of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL). Cons: There is a LOT of hockey in this area, and while thats definitely a great thing, unlike one of the other cities on this list, a team here might have a harder time carving out its own identity, if not finding a market (because there definitely is one, its just very saturated and unfortunately a lot of noise would surround its potential brother in the NHL as well). Mobile has a horrendous arena but they are trying to replace it or renovate it. That would be the economics of the Canadian dollar. Amazinmets73. Yesterday at 12:08 PM. "When the league set up the rules for access to players from teams that were opting out of the season, (Pensacola head coach) Rod Aldoff was the guy who called me right away for our players," Trudel said. We're not an expansion team, but it's going to be challenging, a tough year recruiting.". In 1988, the East Coast Hockey League was formed from five teams coming out of the defunct Atlantic Coast Hockey League and All-American Hockey League. The PHF (then NWHL) has been here before, holding its second-ever All-Star Game at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, the Penguins practice rink. Voted winner: Draw (50%) - Voted rating: 0 Vote / Details . Pros: As mentioned, it geographically makes things a lot easier for Minnesota, plus when I searched for womens hockey in the Chicago area I did come across one team, the Chicago North Stars, that has quite a bit of a similar feel to the Whitecaps in their barn-storming days. As of 2022, the Knoxville Ice Bears are the most successful team in SPHL history, having won five William B. Coffey Trophies as the regular season champions and four President's Cup playoff championships. In keeping with the even flow of feeding teams, there is hope of equal balance among the three leagues; cue Palm Springs. Savannah would have less interest than Atlanta. [12] In that same game Erin Blair and Katie Guay became the first female officials to referee an SPHL game.[12]. Im getting excited just thinking about some of those games, and we dont even know if itll ever happen yet. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Jackson is a flat out no. Now, if it does happen, I will gladly eat the biggest, fattest crow you can find, feathers and all. Like basically everything else about this investment, it shows the Board of Governors has the confidence in the league to really give it more than just a passing thought; instead, theyre looking to build it to last. 2023 www.pjstar.com. Monday afternoon water cooler talk "Is it Wednes. Pros: Some familiarity, plus any team here would certainly have a distinct identity and could easily draw hockey fans from some overlooked corners of the country. ATL might be able to float an SPHL team, considering the attendance is way less than an NHL team. The following season, the league announced it would only play with five of the ten member teams due to pandemic-related capacity restrictions barring fans from attending games. [8], The following goaltenders with a minimum 350 minutes played lead the playoffs in goals against average. "I'll be happy if six or seven of our 13 play in the fall. Cheaper costs across the board, they would fit in better with the SPHL's attendances and market sizes, 56 games in a season down from 72 to allow more quality dates, and I know fans in the SPHL would love to have the Wheeling Nailers in the SPHL. I heard from someone (again, dont know how reputable) that Tallahassee was a done deal prior to the pandemic. The last of the four major North American sports to expand before the Golden Knights were the National Football League whose Houston Texans became official in 2002 and the National Basketball Association whose New Orleans Pelicans began that same year. [13] It wont be a major city. Folks, after a wild ride that saw one team fold and an expansion team set an attendance record that will probably never be broken, the 2017-18 Federal Hockey League season came to and end last. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is making a lot of progress during his first year on the job, Back in October, he helped negotiate a $2.28B media rights deal with FOX and ESPN. (from NHL Commissioner: No Active Efforts To Bring Team To Houston, Houston Chronicle, 5/3/2019) However, in Sep. 2019, Feritta said hes still exploring options to bring an NHL franchise to Houston. Im nothing if not self-serving. 2006-Present FloSports, Inc. All rights reserved. "So it's important to build around experience and what you have. Ooooh, boy. None of the existing 10 teams can lose more than one player from among their unprotected players. When the puck drops in 2022-23 the AHL will be a 32-team league equal to the NHL with the expectation of 32 affiliation agreements allowing the NHL and AHL to feed each other prospects and conditioning stints. The SPHL just got their 9th Team . The lucky news for prospective expansion franchise owners is that after the success of the Golden Knights, the NHL is riding an expansion high. I dont see any Southern expansion, really, until we can button up the Midwest and really get established with the Canadian teams. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. 04/08/22. Date Players Videos. 04/10/22. The newest AHL team of Palm Springs, California, is set to officially join the league in 2022-23 and will be the affiliate for Seattle. With the announcement on Jan. 18 of the Board of Governors $25 million investment in the PHF came a bit of a buried lede: that being the expansion of the league to 10 teams come the 2023-24 season. By . With the addition of Seattle, the NHL ties the NFL for most teams with 32. The newest AHL team of Palm Springs, California, is set to officially join the league in 2022-23 and will be the affiliate for Seattle. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. I don't know anything about Louisville, Lexington, or Iowa City. And should Seattle see immediate success like 2017 Vegas, expansion bids could continue to come the NHLs way (see Quebec, CAN, or Houston, TX). SPHL commissioner Doug Price said the teams that opted out of the 2020-21 season were permitted to take back the rights to players that were on their protected 13-player list last summer, or signed to a tryout agreement heading into last fall. 3 Pd 11:32. I just want to know your opinion on these future possible sphl expansions New Orleans Tallahassee Mobile Iowa city Memphis Downtown Atlanta Louisville Lexington Savannah Jackson, Lex is trying for echl right now. 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The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) is a professional ice hockey independent minor league based in Huntersville, North Carolina, with teams located primarily in the southeastern United States as well as Illinois and Indiana in the midwestern United States. All players eligible for the Columbus Cottonmouths' protected list were also available for the draft . I dont see this team in the north so there can be a north and south division. Daten ber Ihr Gert und Ihre Internetverbindung, wie Ihre IP-Adresse, Browsing- und Suchaktivitten bei der Nutzung von Yahoo Websites und -Apps. The name evokes what we are all about, redefining what it means to lead with heart in the rink and community.Iowa Heartlanders.https://t.co/sLAZE0wp2P pic.twitter.com/NMreucGINx. "The team we had built for last year was going to be special," Rivermen coach Jean-Guy Trudel said. Big changes could be coming in the next 24 hours to the footprint of the SPHL. 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I live in mobile and go to most of the home games in Pensacola and I think theres a decent following in the surrounding areas I know a lot of people who would go to games there. All players not named to a returning team's protected list were eligible for the draft. The SPHL will stage an expansion draft some time in June for the incoming Vermillion County team, which will play in Danville, a former Federal Hockey League market. But expansion wont stop there. I was surprised at that. By submitting my information, I agree to the, NHL Trade Analysis: Kings Acquire Michigan Goalie Erik Portillo, Replay: Home - 2023 Newfoundland vs Maine | Mar 1 @ 10 AM, Replay: Away - 2023 Newfoundland vs Maine | Mar 1 @ 10 AM, Replay: Home - 2023 Wichita vs Kansas City | Feb 28 @ 7 PM, Replay: Away - 2023 Wichita vs Kansas City | Feb 28 @ 7 PM, Pavel Gogolev Reacts To Trade To Blackhawks, Leaving Newfoundland Growlers, Replay: Home - 2023 Kalamazoo vs Indy | Feb 28 @ 10 AM, Replay: Away - 2023 Kalamazoo vs Indy | Feb 28 @ 10 AM, Cookie Preferences / Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. SPHL Expansion Thread starter Atlantian Start date Mar 13, 2021 Forums Other Leagues ECHL, PHF, and other Minor Pro Leagues Atlantian Registered User Dec 13, 2017 489 347 Atlanta, GA Mar 13, 2021 #1 So the IceBears put out a release saying there's another expansion team coming this summer. 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