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I for one will miss staying on P'Cola beach & going to McGuires :( I really liked that road trip. Hopefully they will give us a better schedule for road trips now with the team staying in the same place for the weekend.

MARK'S gets the shaft again. P-Cola management needs to be fined the max allowed by the ECHL.
This just SU@#S big time!!

We'll end up with more week day games-------------------

Good Riddance Pensacola..especially with the bush league way you dropped out. AB, you are right about how it messes up a lot of things in The ECHL. MANY teams will have to deal with it. The lesson to be learned here is that The ECHL must be much more careful before adding new members. I still say that this is a good thing long term. Why would The ECHL be so bad if it had 24 teams, 12 in Each Conference, 6 in each Division, 4 in each Division making the Playoffs?? When I look at the home schedule and see Pensacola, I wasn't excited about it anyway. So once again, good riddance. Mr. Brush will do the best he can with the situation. That's my opinion fellow Bloggers...what's yours?

Cubbuc, your points are well taken but.....that was always a fun road trip.

BTW Wyman why wont the new panther goalie play here?
His age is not a factor as long as he meets the requirements;

The Playing Manual states:

It is the policy of the ECHL that 18- and 19-year-old Players shall not be prohibited from playing in the League as a result of their age. However, the ECHL recognizes the contractual status of other Leagues and honors those contracts as well as other League's enforcement procedures. Players whose rights have been protected through each respective League's Playing Rules and Regulations will be recognized and honored by ECHL clubs.

An 18- or 19-year-old Player who has cleared waivers or has been released by another league of his contractual obligation can become a Player in the ECHL. However, all such Players must still receive approval of their ECHL contracts by the League Office.

It is the policy of the ECHL that no Player should be permitted to sign an ECHL contract and play unless he has reached his 18th birthday.

If, however, an individual is under the age of 18, but has been placed on a National Hockey League team's 50-man roster, he would be permitted to play before he has reached his 18th birthday.

Regards,

Jack Carnefix
Vice President of Communications
ECHL, Premier 'AA' Hockey League

sdw -- do your homework first

http://fantasybaseball.usatoday.com/c...

Playoff format for next season

Top 4 teams in EACH division will advance and all are a best of 7 series

http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.c...

Now that is the way it should be, besides was Pensacola really in the ECHL the last 2 years anyway?

You are the one who said he couldt play here..... he can, he just isnt going to.

AB,
You have this in your online article....
The ECHL once had five teams in Florida locations: Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Pensacola and Estero.

Scratch Orlando and add Tallahassee.

LOL...now we have other team's bloggers correcting AB's incorrect facts...LOL

Thank You StingrayFan...LOL

What a joke!!! HAHAHAHAHA

Thanks for the Tallahassee correction -- I was at the hospital when I wrote this story fyi.

AB

Great news BHF as far as your Post #6...Now THIS LOOKS MORE LIKE TRUE PLAYOFF HOCKEY!!! Next season keeps getting better and better as far as Professionalism in regards to The ECHL. Eliminate the unworthy, (Pensacola) and make The Playoffs ONLY for the worthy..( Top 2 Thirds....)

What a Competitive SIX TEAM DIVISION next season!! And only FOUR of the following will make The Playoffs...Augusta...Charlotte...Florida...Gwinnett...Mississippi...South Carolina...NOW THIS IS GOOD STUFF!!!

Well it stinks that P'cola did not exit properly and as a result will cost the league and it's member teams $$$$$. It will also cost the Blades a boatload of easy points in the standings. LOL

Stinkrayfan, that is a classic! Now AB will owe you a drink if you make a roadie this upcoming season! Priceless!

Juat another Tidbit from what looks like a VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING...Pregame Warmups shortened From 20 to 16 Minutes....Plus many other "Nuggets Of Information...www.echl.com/

www.echl.com

like the new playoff format...finally in line with the national conference...it's about time

chip,
Pre-Game warmups cut by 4 minutes, this may influence the "GERMAIN GREETING" prior to the games.

AB

you always have an excuse why you print bad facts.....
Hospital, late night, on & on it goes.
there really isnt any!

Stingrayfan, SDW and hambling...Better be careful or you will be childish, hateful and embarressing. The "boys" on the blog don't like anyone pointing out anything negative about AB. Doesn't matter how wrong, how speculative she is, don't let her know about it.

Oh and SDW, you are right, there is always an excuse.

BHF/SDW/IPMB22 You ladies are the "joke" not AB.

It is funny how you ladies are so quick to judge. Have any of you ever worked for a newspaper or anything like that??? If not you really dont have any room to talk do you.

ASSPILOTS: The ownership needs to have the book thrown at them!!!

BLADES: Mark my words we will get the short end of the stick on this one. More weekday games are coming. As AB mentioned maybe we will see more Northern teams. That is the only good thing that coucl come out of this.

Time to get out of this lounge chair and into the pool!!!

Does anyone know what ERN has been doing lately. Do you guys think he will be coming back this year???? Do you guys want him to come back???

Lukin signed today!!!!!!!!

Yeah - we now have 2 players signed

BHF- It's not about saying negative things about Angela it is about the way some choose to post their corrections. For a perfect example take a look at post 9 by SRF and then read post 10 by IP. Either one of those strike you as childish, hateful and/or embarrasing?

Bussy, you sure know how to burn your bridges..consider it burned.

Chip, my original post to her was basically simple and to the point. She called me out and all hell broke loose.

Fair enough.

Bussyfan/pepsiman:

You may want to consider wearing a disguise to the Blades games next season...

I've got an orange jumpsuit he can borrow..

Everblades Visit Cape Coral Youth Group (News-Press)

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.d...

It is very sad but the average person has come to expect POOR service IE: substandard quality in most everything. I am not one of those that can except consistently poor substandard quality...whether it is soft merchandise such as clothing, or food prepared at a restaurant or articles written to inform the interested masses. I am an avid reader and can not tolerate blatant disregard in reporting inaccurate facts when using them to backup whatever point the writer is trying to make. It’s understandable and forgivable if it is an occasional error but not when 98% of the articles presented for public reading are incorrect and excuses at the ready when the inaccuracies are pointed out. After requesting nicely many times over for a professionally written ACCURATE article on a subject ( in this case Everblades Hockey) which we are all interested in without conjecture on the part of the writer and in a factual professional manner which has been completely ignored; a few of us have chosen to bring to the forefront the continuous errors to which have made the Everblades organization and their fans the embarrassment of the ECHL where once the written word about the Everblades Organization was considered premium information…

You won’t/don’t accept poor results/performances from the Everblades Hockey Team without voicing your feeling…so WHY would you accept substandard reporting from one of the major local media that “represents” them to the rest of the “hockey world”?

If that makes me, BHF, Ham, StingrayFan, SDW and others childish, hateful, an embarrassment, a joke or being completely unreasonable….so be it!

I wasn't trying to start anything with the Orlando/Tallahassee correction. I guess I haven't been reading enough of this blog to know what all the fuss is about.

I think AB does a wonderful job. You people don't realize how lucky you have got it. Many fans of other cities would love to get the coverage that the Everblades get. Be careful what you wish for. If you want less mistakes, they can always give you less coverage.

Keep up the good work AB.

Now for something more meaningful.....

South Carolina’s Darren Abbott Named ECHL Executive Of The Year...

http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.c...

The next time you knock her and make fun of her on ITB Stingrayfan, I will be sure to copy and paste it on the blog.

I think you have me confused with someone else BHF.

I may comment on how everyone with the Everblades, including the fans, think they are better than everyone else in the ECHL in every single way, but none of that has to do with AB. She just reports the way everyone else feels...lol

AB Beware of the tag team partners in the WWECHL, they are out to get you.

New blog posted ...

Stingrayfan, the only one that thinks the Blades and the fans are better than anyone else is you. It is quite interesting to watch your obsession with Blades.

Living in Pensacola, let me tell you this is certainly not fun and games. First off, while it's true that the people down there should appreciate the coverage, it does not excuse the fact that there are too many mistakes made in articles. For a market like you have, that needs to be corrected.

Now onto hockey, you people can have your fun and joke all you want but this is no laughing matter to people who live in the Pensacola area. We were in the league before you were. You are just fortunate to have a continuous playoff team who no offense also never won a championship. You have a great market, don't get me wrong, but this ownership ran this team into the ground and now everyone has to suffer. It's a real shame. What you can take away from this is anything can happen. Season tickets were sold, the schedule was out and what did that mean. A lease was done for 5 years. It meant absolutely nothing. While you are throwing blame towards the owner which is fine, don't forget to throw blame on the league, the commissioner and the governors. They made a zero attempt to find a buyer, try to keep the team there. They didn't care because if they did, they would certainly not terminate the membership in a matter of a day. Shame on them.

You can continue to have your fun down there but while you are smiling because you always know you will have a hockey team, think of the staff that lost their jobs, the players who were planning on coming back (even though there were only a few), the businesses that rely on the team and of course the fans who are truly the ones suffering from all this. Thank you.