  Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 334 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ha, just got back from the 1st ever Home Game for the ECHL's Ontario(Calif) Reign. I'm kinda thrown, the ECHL is now a big fat mash-up of 7(!) leagues;Central hl, WestCoast hl, Western Pro hl,Sunshine HL, Southern HL, Atlantic Coast HL and All-American HL, & a buncha half-dead teams out of the IHL hence ECHL, used Frankly I thought the level of play was a LOT better in the IHL. The sub-Slapshot stuff (yet only one mediocre fight-& a feeder league to the AHL? Really?) bored the audience-which is deadly because these people are a half-hour down the freeway or trainride away the Ducks & Kings(who are the Reign affiliate). Anyway, before I lose you all, I don't think the Kings have any hardcore rivalry with the Red Wings...but the loudest boos of the night were for a perfectly decent middle-class family on the Jumbotron decked out in matching Red Wings jerseys. You'd think Osama was up there. Weird. Good goin' Barry Kemp on the free parking tho http://www.pe.com/sports/hocke y/breakout/stories/PE_Sports_L ocal_W_reign_26.4745826.html | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 335 Registered: 08-2006 |
Let me amend my post, Zatkoff, the goalie for the Reign was easily the best player they had on ice, of course he's a Kings prospect from you-know-where; Jeff Zatkoff Position: Goaltender...........Catches: Left Height: 6'2''......................DOB : June 9, 1987 (Age 21) Weight: 170.....................Born: Detroit, MI, United States Acquired: Drafted 3rd round, 74th overall in 2006 Returning to: Ontario Reign, ECHL | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 2767 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks to Bush and his Henchmen, they have undid 200 years of solid relationships with our real allies. | ||
Pkbroch Member Username: Pkbroch Post Number: 162 Registered: 02-2008 |
I believe they are talking about Ontario, California. The last I heard California was still our ally. Hope you are joking!! | ||
Sharms Member Username: Sharms Post Number: 76 Registered: 07-2007 |
Ya got the NHL Major League Ya got the AHL AAA Then you have three league who claim status of AA. The ECHL used to be the East Coast Hockey League, but since absorbing the West Coast Hockey League is no longer the East Coast Hockey League, but simply the ECHL. The letters don't stand for anything. Strange. Other AA leagues are the Central Hockey League and the International Hockey League. The IHL was once based in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio etc, with slapshot style hockey. I think the league had its roots in Detroit and Windsor hence INTERNATIONAL. | ||
Mortalman Member Username: Mortalman Post Number: 455 Registered: 03-2007 |
Huh, to that opening post!  | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 336 Registered: 08-2006 |
Actually Mortalman there were a few girls who looked like that in attendance, come to think of it...your "Post Bar" casualties. I apologize to bring my hockey wonkery into a Detroit board, it's inexcusable I know-the Reign is rooted in the L.A. Long Beach/Ice Dogs of the IHL, which was a "bus league" founded in Detroit for "company teams" & has been resurrected in Rochester, MI as the new name for the old Colonial HL;; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U nited_Hockey_League I thought the play in the I was a lot better, I had no idea that this Zatkoff guy's grandfather was a legendary U of M/Det Lions linebacker & his dad was an NBA Plenom outta Eastern Mich U, I'll bet this guy is gonna be sent up to the Kings; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J eff_Zatkoff Anyway, for some reason this area seems to produce a lot of pro athletes-one of my brother's students was Tom Harmon's grandson...but I fear Mortalman posting more tongue fetish photos so I'll digress I had no idea the "new" ECHL stands for "nothing". They had their Corporate HQ in an office building off 6th & Mountain in Ontario Cali for a year or so | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 2117 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sadly, he wasn't joking, Pkbroch. Pretty pathetic, isn't it? | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 340 Registered: 08-2006 |
I told you guys this Detroit-born Zatkoff kid was good, he just got named the ECHL's Goalie Of The Week; http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mp ublic.cgi?action=show_news2&ca t=1&id=16633 an interesting observation about the Wings-Kings bout(no, not the Ice Girls-hockey cheerleaders just aren't organic to the gameplay whatsoever) http://laist.com/2008/10/28/re d_wings_burn_kings_in_shootout .php#comments "in the top photo,there are so many red wing fans there, I thought the game was in Detroit, not at Staples" |
