The home rink of the former FPHL's Delaware Thunder is closing up In May

[Andre Poodle Lussier]

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The rink does host youth hockey in Southern Delaware and it's the only rink in the southern two-thirds of the state. The owners (the Delaware State Fair) will turn it into storage and also (I'd think) space to host indoor ag or ag-related events in the winter. The state's ag convention is held there in January and I think a few other groups rent the rink out for non-skating community events.

Any crazy idea of rebooting a FPHL team (or even beer hockey team) in Harrington is pretty much toast at this point.

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[JMCx4]

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... Any crazy idea of rebooting a FPHL team (or even beer hockey team) in Harrington is pretty much toast at this point.

In my continuing estimation, that toaster caught fire & melted long ago.

 

[TruthBombs]

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The rink does host youth hockey in Southern Delaware and it's the only rink in the southern two-thirds of the state. The owners (the Delaware State Fair) will turn it into storage and also (I'd think) space to host indoor ag or ag-related events in the winter. The state's ag convention is held there in January and I think a few other groups rent the rink out for non-skating community events.

Any crazy idea of rebooting a FPHL team (or even beer hockey team) in Harrington is pretty much toast at this point.

And no one will miss the FPHL.

Of course, to have people who would miss the league when it's gone, they'd have had to have fans when it was there...

 

[Andre Poodle Lussier]

And no one will miss the FPHL.

Of course, to have people who would miss the league when it's gone, they'd have had to have fans when it was there...

The "arena" sat 700 bleacher style. We've all seen bantam rinks with more seating, probably.

There was/is a fanbase that liked the team and showed up pretty religiously but there wasn't any real path for a minor pro hockey team, even in the FPHL, to be viable in a barn of that size.