Owners with deep pockets. This group already owns the Jacksonville and Savanah franchises.
ECHL announces Lake Tahoe expansion team for 2024-25
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Zawyer Sports & Entertainment is not part of the ownership group. They will manage Lake Tahoe ECHL team like they already do with the Atlanta Gladiators.
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No "well duh" nothing, the crazy Stocton fans were wanting their name and logo back! There was an ambitious campaign to lobby the board of trustees, the federation, and even got the assistance of Otis Bonk offical liaison of the minor league sports board of the Caliafornia Capitol Exposition group to repatriate the name and logo back to Stoncton....Yea major efforts going on, no joke.
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.....There is therapy for you.
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Lake Tahoe is the shit. I did a big drywall project out there with my boy sebby and we stayed a week extra just to get rowdy you hear me?
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I won't question your scheduling math. But the Rush are not dependent on tourism to get butts in seats. It would be the very rare attendee who trekked to The Black Hills & Badlands to snap a photo of George Washington's nose with snow on it, then said to themselves: "Didn't I read somewhere that the Steelheads are in town for three weeks? I think I'll take in a hockey game while I'm here."
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No reasonable person books a week-long vacation in Rapid City in January.I won't question your scheduling math. But the Rush are not dependent on tourism to get butts in seats. It would be the very rare attendee who trekked to The Black Hills & Badlands to snap a photo of George Washington's nose with snow on it, then said to themselves: "Didn't I read somewhere that the Steelheads are in town for three weeks? I think I'll take in a hockey game while I'm here."
Good point, the ECHL would definitely never allow multiple teams to be named the Thunder...
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I don't know, we are imagining the type of person who gets excited about going to a new place purely for the fast food places that are in that region.
Or...
My point is, we are dealing with someone who doesn't think rationally.
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GET TO KNOW YOUR CORPORATE SPONSORS!
Idaho has papered their house for years, but the biz folk in Boise like their sports. Those suites and club seats can keep a lot of teams going when they give a damn.
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Even I only did a one-nighter. In November.
And it was cheaper to detour from Rapid City to Vegas on the return to Portland, rather than fly from RC to Portland. And get a room in Vegas. As long as you didn’t lose too much (and I didn’t somehow).
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I do sympathize with the issues regarding cost of living for employees in situations like this. But there’s a qualifier here. The wages will be higher, full stop.
Carson City is a half hour away in good weather. Median home price… $450K.
In Portland, Oregon, the supposedly dying city… $560K, and going up after a bit of a down cycle for two years. Frankly, Portland needed more correction than what it got.
Thing is, you go down the Willamette Valley from Portland and there’s barely any drop off. Maybe Salem is cheaper, but charming towns like Newberg, McMinnville, and Silverton… brace yourselves. And maybe don’t even look at Bend over the Cascades. That’s not even California we’re talking about, and don’t get me started about San Francisco.
That is simply the west coast economy circa 2023.
Meanwhile, my daughter is all but closed on a house in Pittsburgh, about 3 miles from downtown, for $185K. MY DAUGHTER! (she can’t be out of grade school yet, no?) Shrug. This got brought up yesterday because a friend paid $1.70 for a coffee in St. Louis for what goes minimum $4 here. Just saying.
Carson City is a half hour away in good weather. Median home price… $450K.
In Portland, Oregon, the supposedly dying city… $560K, and going up after a bit of a down cycle for two years. Frankly, Portland needed more correction than what it got.
Thing is, you go down the Willamette Valley from Portland and there’s barely any drop off. Maybe Salem is cheaper, but charming towns like Newberg, McMinnville, and Silverton… brace yourselves. And maybe don’t even look at Bend over the Cascades. That’s not even California we’re talking about, and don’t get me started about San Francisco.
That is simply the west coast economy circa 2023.
Meanwhile, my daughter is all but closed on a house in Pittsburgh, about 3 miles from downtown, for $185K. MY DAUGHTER! (she can’t be out of grade school yet, no?) Shrug. This got brought up yesterday because a friend paid $1.70 for a coffee in St. Louis for what goes minimum $4 here. Just saying.
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As for Carson City, sure, it's a half-hour away in good weather. What's the weather like in the high sierras during hockey season? There's a reason Tahoe is a ski resort town.
I mean, will wages really be higher? The arena has 4,500 seats. They'd better sell it out every night. If there's a median ticket price of $18, and they sell out every game, that's $2.9 million in revenue. Assume another $1 million in corporate sponsorships and trade deals above that. $3.9 million in revenue doesn't go far in Lake Tahoe. Jacking ticket prices higher will only price fans out of the games.
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My corner seat for the USPHL Idaho Falls Spud Kings was $20 plus $6.75 in Ticketmaster fees and that place was 95% full.
The wages are higher here, though I can point to many things rather out of balance out west.
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That's it - NEXT ECHL EXPANSION TO ST. LOUIS! Lukewarm coffee for everyone.
Only if they play in the Family Arena and Randall @Ritchey27 gives us his analysis of the roster during pre-season.
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Not meaning to be the guy that kills the joke, but after the disaster that was the St. Charles Chill, the Family Arena management is firmly against having a hockey tenant and making ice other than for certain events.
On the other side of the coin, nobody except a severely underfunded indoor soccer team that should be out of business, and the occasional arena football team that announces but never plays a game, nobody wants to be a tenant at such a run down facility like the Family Arena.
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Official team name is the Tahoe Knight Monsters.
Obviously going for an affiliation with the Golden Knights.
Good looking logo.
