ECHL to Frederick, Maryland?

[Dan K]

Looks like there is an effort underway to bring an ECHL expansion team to Frederick (MD).

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[VaCaps Fan]

Hell yes, Maryland needs hockey.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

is this the so called expansion by Monumental Sports though.... because these threads come up from time to time after what transpired in Baltimore twice....

 

[JMCx4]

Plowing fresh soil with dull tools that failed to yield a pro hockey presence over several rounds of DelMarVa hockey dream sequences. Though trotting out the "Original Concept Art for Savannah's Arena" image while asking the social media denizens where the arena should be plopped down to suit them is even more pathetic for this go-for-pro movement. I might just buy a T-shirt to give me a chuckle when I use it to wash my car.

ETA: $10.60 delivery charge for a crappy $24.95 short-sleeve T-shirt?! Scratch the car wash idea.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Where is your website for a revived “st. Charles chill” echl franchise?

 

[JMCx4]

Where is your website for a revived “st. Charles chill” echl franchise?

It's on the Dark Web, where it belongs.

 

[John Price]

ngl if this develops id love to see it

 

[Andre Poodle Lussier]

Plowing fresh soil with dull tools that failed to yield a pro hockey presence over several rounds of DelMarVa hockey dream sequences. Though trotting out the "Original Concept Art for Savannah's Arena" image while asking the social media denizens where the arena should be plopped down to suit them is even more pathetic for this go-for-pro movement. I might just buy a T-shirt to give me a chuckle when I use it to wash my car.

ETA: $10.60 delivery charge for a crappy $24.95 short-sleeve T-shirt?! Scratch the car wash idea.

The dream of the Delaware Thunder is "alive" in Dover, however, if you believe Charlie Pens! (Just ignore the absolute radio silence from local and state officials about a "civic center" project in Dover.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Baltimore would be better than Frederick. For starters, Baltimore is a larger city.

 

[Tilden Katz]

Baltimore would be better than Frederick. For starters, Baltimore is a larger city.

Baltimore is bigger than Frederick, why don't they just put a team there? Are they stupid?

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Baltimore is bigger than Frederick, why don't they just put a team there? Are they stupid?

BAL been tried three X before, Major issue is the location of the arena in Baltimore.... even as an ANA affiliate and a Capitals affiliate.....even as the Clippers era....

 

[GindyDraws]

Baltimore is bigger than Frederick, why don't they just put a team there? Are they stupid?

The damn arena there smells and is a dump.

They're renovating it when they should have just torn it down and built a brand new one.

 

[CHIP72]

The damn arena there smells and is a dump.

They're renovating it when they should have just torn it down and built a brand new one.

Yeah, the real issue is the Baltimore Arena is over 60 years old.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Yeah, the real issue is the Baltimore Arena is over 60 years old.

First Mariner Arena....

 

[CHIP72]

First Mariner Arena....

Baltimore Arena is its original name.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Baltimore Arena is its original name.

that's what it's been known as since pro hockey abandoned the market.... and has been described ad nauseum for years even when pro hockey was there.... wrong section of Baltimore.... Camden Yards is 1000 x better.... warnings were made about going anywhere else in Baltimore metro.

 

[GindyDraws]

Baltimore Arena is its original name.

I assume you dealt with Hutch's not even wrong logic or Syracuse Blazers on his 78th concussion, but yeah the arena has gone through multiple names.

I highly recommend blocking those two. Life is easier that way.

 

[GindyDraws]

Yeah, the real issue is the Baltimore Arena is over 60 years old.

It also doesn't help it's Baltimore's main arena for concerts and sports, so it being old and crummy deters it from serious tenants who may want to do stuff there like AHL or ECHL hockey.

There's aging gracefully and then getting old. The Baltimore Arena got old.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Crazy how Baltimore has fallen as a hockey market from a potential 1967 expansion franchise to this current situation. Actually not crazy with that arena.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

I assume you dealt with Hutch's not even wrong logic or Syracuse Blazers on his 78th concussion, but yeah the arena has gone through multiple names.

I highly recommend blocking those two. Life is easier that way.

Baltimore has been discussed ad nauseum in numerous forums here and elsewhere for years.... even the old fanbases of Baltimore realized that about the arena and relayed it as such..... why would the Capitals bail on the market in the late 90s..... then the supposed flirtation by Carolina ownership brought it back up again.... before the extension w/ Rosemont, IL (NOT Chicago, not even a mailing address in Chicago, either)

 

[jabberoski]

Baltimore has been discussed ad nauseum in numerous forums here and elsewhere for years.... even the old fanbases of Baltimore realized that about the arena and relayed it as such..... why would the Capitals bail on the market in the late 90s..... then the supposed flirtation by Carolina ownership brought it back up again.... before the extension w/ Rosemont, IL (NOT Chicago, not even a mailing address in Chicago, either)

How exactly did the Capitals bail on the market in the late 90s?

 

[GindyDraws]

How exactly did the Capitals bail on the market in the late 90s?

Because they didn't invest in Camden Yards, obviously. /Hutch

 

[JMCx4]

Because they didn't invest in Camden Yards, obviously. /Hutch

Outdoor hockey's been done to death.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Because they didn't invest in Camden Yards, obviously. /Hutch

question is... who's funding said arena in Frederick....

 

[JMCx4]

question is... who's funding said arena in Frederick....

Since there's been a solicitation from the unidentified party or parties to have local hockey fans pick where the arena will be located, I reckon the fans will be paying for it.