New Team in Ontario, CA

I heard that the WCHL will be having a team in Ontario, CA sometime soon. Has anybody heard anything on this? Thanks!

The ECHL is planning to put a team into Ontario, CA after there new arena is complete, which I believe is due in 2005...

Thanks for the info. I was told by three different people it was WCHL. That's crazy. No wonder why I didn't find much info. Thanks!!!!

Your welcome :)

Thanks for the info. I was told by three different people it was WCHL. That's crazy. No wonder why I didn't find much info. Thanks!!!!

The WCHL was absorbed by the ECHL last year.

I just found that out last week! I am so out of the loop. Does anybody know where I can find more information? Thanks ;-)

They are not setting up in Ontario.



ECHL ANNOUNCES BLOOMINGTON, IL AS NEWEST MEMBER

ECHL PRESS RELEASE

PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced on Monday that it will officially welcome Bloomington, Illinois as its newest member.

The team is scheduled to begin play in the ECHL in 2005-06 at a 7,000-seat state-of-the-art multipurpose arena scheduled to be built at a cost of $35.2 million in downtown Bloomington.

"The ECHL is excited to welcome Bloomington into the ECHL," said ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna. "We are confident that the combination of strong ownership, experienced management, a great facility and the support of hockey fans in the Bloomington/Normal market will prove to be an enormous success in the ECHL. There is already a natural rivalry with the proximity of Peoria, but also because of the history and success Peoria has enjoyed in the ECHL."

The Bloomington membership is a relocation of the Ontario, California membership. The Bloomington membership requested and received a Transfer of Home Territory from the ECHL Board of Governors at the Mid-Season Board of Governors Meeting.

Located approximately 40 miles from Peoria, the Bloomington membership was granted permission by the Peoria membership to play within a 60-mile radius of an existing ECHL member.