MANCHESTER, NH THREAD

[Tilden Katz]

Uuuuuummm ... Manchester, England is an inland city ...

It is my opinion that it is not. You can't handle that.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

ECHL all-star game in Manchester?

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Could the vermillion county team move there with their infamous front office of only a head of security.

 

[JMCx4]

Could the vermillion county team move there with their infamous front office of only a head of security.

You might catch a cameo of The Danville Dynamic Duo at a Bobcats game in Wy-the-ville. Ghosts of Hockey Past.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Can’t wait for the rodeo barn of hockey.

 

[Centrum Hockey]

ECHL all-star game in Manchester?

Nonsense they are clearly aiming to host a second AHL all star game. Being a AHL market is their birthright after all and it was illegally taken from them.

 

[JMCx4]

Can’t wait for the rodeo barn of hockey.

It'll look like a smaller version of the Cow Palace in Daly City, where the ECHL's futile San Francisco Bulls franchise failed to smell better than the other tenants.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Cool albums of stadiums and jerseys.

 

[wildcat48]

I was in Manchester for TSO over Thanksgiving, and had an opportunity to speak with a few people I know who are tied into the arena and region. Bottomline, they are not getting a hockey team anytime soon and I've come to the conclusion because it's partly self-inflicted. I'd say it's a little bit of delusion, and frankly their inability to read the room meaning how hockey has shifted in New England. They still believe they will still get an AHL franchise. They are pinning their hopes on Quebec City, so much so that "a group" of people had "talks" (I use that word loosely) with potential ownership groups of Quebec. I laughed when I was told that. Again, they can't read the room.

Who is they... The city put together a working committee of local politicians, business leaders and arena management to find a way to get a hockey team in Manchester. This was done shortly after the Monarchs left and at one point they were close to an ECHL team but they could never find that one financial solvent person willing to put "real money" on the table.

The ECHL is waiting patiently for Manchester to get its "stuff" together. The arena rent would be a little excessive in my opinion but that's not stopping the deal from happening. What is stopping anything from progressing is the market's inability to get out of its own past, and to find one or two local money sources to put the group over the finish line.

Until they wake up.... Professional hockey is not coming back to Manchester.

 

[wildcat48]

Frankly, I think Manchester should be lucky the Mountain Kings play in Hooksett because that as close to professional hockey as they will get beside D3.

 

[CANADIENSFAN90]

Getting echl a team is better than nothing

 

[GindyDraws]

Getting echl a team is better than nothing

But you'll get nothing and you'll like it.

 

[KrugAvoy]

If Lowell hadn't gotten the PWHL, I bet they would welcome the ECHL with open arms.

 

[Tilden Katz]

If Lowell hadn't gotten the PWHL, I bet they would welcome the ECHL with open arms.

I've been saying for years we need another new England based A or AA hockey team, but no one has come up with any location suggestions until now. Viva la Lowell!

 

[CANADIENSFAN90]

Manchester would be good too

I think 5 to 10 years the snhu arena will see hockey return

 

[Barclay Donaldson]

If Lowell hadn't gotten the PWHL, I bet they would welcome the ECHL with open arms.

I hope you're betting $0 because you are dead wrong.

UMass-Lowell owns Tsongas Center. They don't want any competition for their NCAA DI hockey program. The PWHL certainly isn't competition for them. The ECHL would be. They would never let an ECHL team in that building.

Either way, UMass-Lowell fills that market as <<mid to high level ECHL equivalent organization.>> Attendance, marketing, ticketing, fanbase, and overall viability is equivalent to most of the mid to high end ECHL teams. Same thing as Burlington, Vermont, which people always point to as an eventual home for a pro franchise by people who don't know that it is Countamount country and college hockey country. Same thing goes with Duluth, St. Cloud, and a bunch of other places.

Manchester would be good too

I think 5 to 10 years the snhu arena will see hockey return

We all know you think this. But you thinking it won't will it into existence.

Getting echl a team is better than nothing

There is NAHL hockey 10 minutes up the road in Hooksett. That is the closest Manchester will get to high level hockey for quite some time.

 

[CANADIENSFAN90]

I hope you're betting $0 because you are dead wrong.

UMass-Lowell owns Tsongas Center. They don't want any competition for their NCAA DI hockey program. The PWHL certainly isn't competition for them. The ECHL would be. They would never let an ECHL team in that building.

Either way, UMass-Lowell fills that market as <<mid to high level ECHL equivalent organization.>> Attendance, marketing, ticketing, fanbase, and overall viability is equivalent to most of the mid to high end ECHL teams. Same thing as Burlington, Vermont, which people always point to as an eventual home for a pro franchise by people who don't know that it is Countamount country and college hockey country. Same thing goes with Duluth, St. Cloud, and a bunch of other places.



We all know you think this. But you thinking it won't will it into existence.



There is NAHL hockey 10 minutes up the road in Hooksett. That is the closest Manchester will get to high level hockey for quite some time.

I said 5 to 10 that will be a decent amount of time to pass someone will go there sometime

 

[JMCx4]

Manchester would be good too

I think 5 to 10 years the snhu arena will see hockey return

From all that has been stated & speculated in this purpose-driven thread, the FPHL should be encouraged to occupy the Manchester market so this nonsense can stop once & for all.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

FPHL Canadiens90s

 

[SoupNazi]

Some of you guys really know how to kill a thread.