Well the Steel City team was supposed to play their home opener last night and have seen nothing reported on the game. Does anyone know if the game took place or why it didn't?
No score listed on the FHL site or anywhere else I have looked.
According to their Twitter page the game was played and they lost in OT.
https://twitter.com/FHLWarriors
If you got to the FHL's website it shows they played IN DAYTON on Friday night LOST 9-1. Then the same two teams were scheduled to play the next night for Steel City's FIRST HOME GAME - nothing listed. Then the same two teams played IN DAYTON on Sunday where the score was 5-4.
They have not played any home games as of yet.
That was my question.
Why did they not play in PA on Saturday night.
No mention of it anywhere, newspaper articles, FHL website etc.
Does anyone here know just how bad the players are treated in this league? These guys rarely even get paid
And the recurring answer is ... Yes ... Cornwall Nationals Cease Operations
STATE OF THE FEDERAL: Here Come The (Northern) Feds!
A mere day after the penultimate financial collapse of the Cornwall Nationals, the Federal Hockey League has brought back their filler solution to finish out the season.
Well under the radar throughout the course of the day – and discovered by Papa Rovitz around noon – now in the Teams section on the FHL website are the Northern Federals. This is the second time in Federal League history that a league-operated franchise has been in operation (Delaware Federals, 2011).
The Federals have only five games scheduled for their nearly two month existence…all road games against the Watertown Wolves, to finish out the Wolves home scheduled games (2/23, 3/23 & 3/24, 4/6 & 4/7). All the Nationals home games are forfeited-wins for the other five FHL teams. ...
Read more at: HotSprotsTakes.com
The SPHL and FHL Should Merge
Not to mention that said owner is, as far as I'm aware, persona non grata in the SPHL. There's really only one team that has remotely the level of support from a fan/sponsor level to sustain at least a season in the SPHL: amazingly, the stickiest tomato they've managed to throw has been at the longtime minor league hockey graveyard at Winston-Salem. And even then, while 2000 fans/game is lightyears ahead of what the FHL typically draws, it would still bring up the rear in the SPHL...Good point. Nothing will help grow the relatively stable SPHL better than taking on a bunch of financially insolvent franchises with a penchant for folding, mostly owned by the same guy, comprised of lower quality players playing mostly in rec rinks with crowds that are a fraction of the SPHL average attendance in markets that are geographically nowhere near the league's current footprint operating on much lower budgets. This should work.
Good point. Nothing will help grow the relatively stable SPHL better than taking on a bunch of financially insolvent franchises with a penchant for folding, mostly owned by the same guy, comprised of lower quality players playing mostly in rec rinks with crowds that are a fraction of the SPHL average attendance in markets that are geographically nowhere near the league's current footprint operating on much lower budgets. This should work.
Wow. What a well written article, complete with poor spelling, ignorance with itallics, and being purely a hype machine.
Look, aside from Port Huron, there's no stability, and "750-1000 average" is a pretty crummy attendance goal that can only be achieved by slashing money elsewhere.