Well if the money is right they would happy to keep playing hockey if it's a game every 3-3.5 days instead of 2.5 or so that the ECHL is.
Would they rather want to make $22/hr doing landscaping or would they like to make $3,000/mo USD (gross) and live where their financial overhead is $1000 USD/mo? They can bank $8000 over course of 4mos? trade offs..
I'd rather keep playing even if it meant a requirement for games to be 3.5 day avg break. That way everyone can be a tourist too and enjoy life a little more than they would in ECHL which is a go-go league as one of you said. There are ways around a lot of your objections. But I get it, it's radical, therefore it will be scrutinized.
I'm more concerned about the potential available player pool as the thread title states.
Argentina is a second-world country. It doesn't need the fully enclosed arena when climate is sufficient for open-air during the cold season. Saves on costs of course being a dry tundra climate of the Patagonia Steppe. The Andes mountains produce a rainshadow effect for settlements east so the major settlements in region are relatively dry through the winter.
All the biz model stuff is irrelevant though. I'm wondering if ECHL is a viable labor pool? I know it's easy to want to knock people down and call them morons, but there is a price for everything, and a talent base of good AA from across Northern leagues would be a top 10 league in world. ECHL is arguably top 10 and with such a bigger labor pool, in theory, I could select the best from such AA leagues across Northern hemisphere and have a top 7/8 league in world all for a relative cheap price of $10mm USD.
Addressing the labor side of things and completely ignoring the baffling lack of informed and rational thinking by you on the business side.
A league in Patagonia (of all places) would draw *beyond negligible.* The ECHL and SPHL have some of the toughest travel on the planet. Extremely physical games with frequent, long road trips predominantly by bus. The last thing 99.99% of them want to do is play more games. They need to let the body rest, and the vast majority of them do. Check out the summer training program for any ECHL or SPHL player. Most don't skate until late July by design. The money you're offering they can make working camps, summer coaching, skills coaching, personal trainer, etc. These guys aren't dropping their sticks after their last game and having to pick up a garden hoe to make ends meet and I have no idea where you would even begin to think they do.
Could be a junior league too if at all possible. JUNIOR A/B type players... CHL wouldn't allow it I'd think. Albeit ECHL being a top 10 world league and JR A/B would be a ways down that line, but more a development league than a true pro league the ECHL level warrants
You call yourselves hockey fans but you're not interested in innovative ways to grow the game to new regions that have a true winter climate because they are too poor to sustain ice rinks free an innovative business strategy?
We're not interested in ways that don't stand up to even the tiniest bit of scrutiny.
Half the things you're saying makes it sound like you're looking for investors... "I'll be down there doing abc..." lol yeah no you won't, because not a single facet of your lunacy is based in reality!
Well if the money is right they would happy to keep playing hockey if it's a game every 3-3.5 days instead of 2.5 or so that the ECHL is.
Would they rather want to make $22/hr doing landscaping or would they like to make $3,000/mo USD (gross) and live where their financial overhead is $1000 USD/mo? They can bank $8000 over course of 4mos? trade offs..
I'd rather keep playing even if it meant a requirement for games to be 3.5 day avg break. That way everyone can be a tourist too and enjoy life a little more than they would in ECHL which is a go-go league as one of you said. There are ways around a lot of your objections. But I get it, it's radical, therefore it will be scrutinized.
No one, not even Connor McDavid, is skating more than 9 months out of the year. Rerun whatever stimulations you did to take out players playing year round. That's why the AIHL has trouble attracting talent. No one minor pro hockey player wants to play year round. I offer that out of personal experience, something you clearly don't have on the ice or in the front office.
So are we all just going to keep replying to this thread without acknowledging at all that this league could be the perfect opportunity for Manchester to get a new pro team?
My fault, I left him tethered to the bounce house again...
Hey,
@CANADIENSFAN90, come out and play. We found someone more detached from reality then you