2024-25 ECHL Season Thread

[jabberoski]

I just noticed Luke Adam is with Tahoe. Spent years in Europe and showed up stateside to captain this team. What's the tie? I assume they gave him some money comparable to the DEL.

No chance he's making as much as he would in the DEL.

 

[PanniniClaus]

No chance he's making as much as he would in the DEL.

KK - Is there some other tie to management? Seems like a move out of nowhere.

 

[JMCx4]

I just noticed Luke Adam is with Tahoe. Spent years in Europe and showed up stateside to captain this team. What's the tie? I assume they gave him some money comparable to the DEL.

This THN article from last October links the early Luke Adam signing with Head Coach Alex Loh's philosophy of recruiting "the best players you can get your hands on. You can generally mold guys to what you’re expecting, but it’s hard to teach talent.”

 

[JMCx4]

No chance he's making as much as he would in the DEL.

Maybe Luke ran the numbers, and concluded the gambling in Tahoe has better odds than in Eastern Europe.

 

[TcNorth]

Just getting wind of Kalamazoo’s new arena being built. I love the current 5,400 seat K-Wings Stadium, but look forward to the new downtown arena for K-Wings Games and Western Michigan University Division “1” hockey games and basketball games, which will seat between 6,000 to 6,500. Way to go Kalamazoo!

 

[VaCaps Fan]

JMCx4 trip?

 

[JMCx4]

Just getting wind of Kalamazoo’s new arena being built. I love the current 5,400 seat K-Wings Stadium, but look forward to the new downtown arena for K-Wings Games and Western Michigan University Division “1” hockey games and basketball games, which will seat between 6,000 to 6,500. Way to go Kalamazoo!

I'd bet the majority of K-Wings fans are bemoaning the eventual venue change. The Stadium has "charm" that is endearing (but not enduring).

 

[Solution]

I'd bet the majority of K-Wings fans are bemoaning the eventual venue change. The Stadium has "charm" that is endearing (but not enduring).

That is a concern with new buildings. Will the "charm" be lost in the pursuit of new revenue? It is hard to have the latest and greatest and still honor the legacy.

 

[GindyDraws]

Finally going to my first Fuel game in Fishers in March. My brother has a photography class that'll take place during the Iowa game and I'm coming along.

I'd bet the majority of K-Wings fans are bemoaning the eventual venue change. The Stadium has "charm" that is endearing (but not enduring).

It's a dank shit hole, but dank shit holes are a dying breed as we build venues with a ton of suites.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Nice, Fishers looks like a solid place.

 

[cjm502]

Fishers is very nice as a new arena should be. Its like a mini NHL arena, the facilities for the players are great as well. The Fuel have one of the very best owners in the ECHL. They even have an arena attached to their private team only apartments although that arena goes unused by the Fuel which is a missed opportunity IMO.

As a WMU Alumni, the "Lawson Lunatics" might have to rebrand themselves after being one of the most rowdy crowds in college hockey for quite a while. The K-Wings and Broncos are both due for a new arena though, I think it will work out well for Kalamazoo. Aside from attending a K-Wings game maybe 4 years ago, I haven't been to Kalamazoo since college. Seeing the new arena once its done seems like a good reason to go visit the town where I actively wiped several years from my memory while living there

 

[JMCx4]

Fishers is very nice as a new arena should be. Its like a mini NHL arena, the facilities for the players are great as well. The Fuel have one of the very best owners in the ECHL. They even have an arena attached to their private team only apartments although that arena goes unused by the Fuel which is a missed opportunity IMO. ...

The Fuel Tank at Fishers facility was built as part of the Hallett partnership strategy to grow ice hockey interest in the Greater Indianapolis area, and that it has done very successfully. The two "Tank" rinks are almost constantly in use by the public, 7 mornings/afternoons/nights per week. Sometimes you've gotta think bigger picture when you're a owner of a sports franchise, a lesson to be learned by the likes of whatever group is trying to bring ECHL hockey to NM.

Now let's see if we can regain focus on the topic of this thread.