argh1 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Will be known as the Fog Devils. "Go FOGGIES GO" Yeah it works kinda. Reminds me of a team in the Nova Scotia Senior baseball league years ago ......the Clarkes Harbour Foggies Saint John remains nameless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hottoddy7 Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 I hate that name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 where will they play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Mile One Arena or whatever it's called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh1 Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Daniel Mile One Arena or whatever it's called. That's right Mile One Stadium , current home of the St. John's Maple Leafs (AHL) & Saint John will play in Harbour Station former home of the Saint John Flames also of the afore mentioned carpet beggars league. Both rinks are fairly new 10 years or less range and both seat slightly over 6,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoyleG Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 There's talk that the St John's side might play in Corner Brook if they don't get the lease deal they want for Mile One. Apparently St John's city council isn't happy with who won the rights to the expansion team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh1 Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 quote:Originally posted by DoyleG There's talk that the St John's side might play in Corner Brook if they don't get the lease deal they want for Mile One. Apparently St John's city council isn't happy with who won the rights to the expansion team. Yeah , the Dobbin brothers beat out the city to win the franchise bid. But after a quick look around The Pepsi Centre in Corner Brook was built in 1999 has a capacity of 3,220.Which sounds small but after a quick search it's in line with a lot of Q rinks. Just the Atlantic arenas in size : Acadie-Bathurst Titan , K.C. Irving Centre 3,524. P.E.I. Rocket , Charlottetown Civic Centre 3,718. Cape Breton Screaming Eagles , Centre 200 4,670. Moncton Wildcats , Moncton Coliseum 7,200. Halifax Mooseheads , Metro Centre 10,000. So if need be I'm sure they can get by in Corner Brook and the Western region of the island is hockey mad (Corner Brook Royals were Senior League giants) . But then again after the season is done this year and council realizes there's no tennant for Mile One things may change. But time will tell. I'm sure these millionaire brothers didn't pay 3 million for the franchise with-out some fall back plans. EDIT: The average attendance in the Q in 2003-04 (according to QMJHL site) was 3,119 and an average rink capacity of 5,187. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I thought the Mooseheads had been moved from the Metro Centre to a smaller arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh1 Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Daniel I thought the Mooseheads had been moved from the Metro Centre to a smaller arena. No that was new owner Bobby Smith getting a lease instead of the one that the pevious owners had , all worked out before the season started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hottoddy7 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 they will be playing out of mile one. corner brook was just a negotiating ploy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh1 Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 The unnamed Saint John franchise hires New Brunswick hockey guru Tipper LeBlanc as general manager. CanadaEast.com Article I'm not sure which rendition of the Moncton Jr A Beavers he played with. But the current Beavers have played for quite awhile in the Maritime Jr A League (tier2). Part of the 138 member , 10 league Canadian Junior A League (tier2) CJAHL site Edit: I deleted a whole stupid rant about how Hockey Canada is much more organized with national leagues than the CSA .......Kinda like tell me something we all don't know. We can only dream of having close to 200 junior soccer teams playing under two national umbrella leagues like they do in hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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