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  • Massena Goes Pro !!

    http://www.newzjunky.com/news2014/05...ena_hockey.htm


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    Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

    I wish them well, but I don't think the North Country is really a pro hockey type area. You have your St.Lawrence fans and your Clarkson fans. After that, you have your dedicated high school fans, SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam do have some locals who follow them but boy I think its going to be a tough draw. JMO
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    • #3
      Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

      Originally posted by Saints17 View Post
      I wish them well, but I don't think the North Country is really a pro hockey type area. You have your St.Lawrence fans and your Clarkson fans. After that, you have your dedicated high school fans, SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam do have some locals who follow them but boy I think its going to be a tough draw. JMO
      what level is this going to be ?? kind of "A" ball??

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      • #4
        Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

        This is going to be a tough sell for one of the smelting plants at ALCOA is closing. The only way that this might make it is if they are in the same league as the Cornwall team. Also they better do a lot of advertising in Cornwell to get the fan base there going. I really don't think they will take any draw from any of the college teams and Canton is to new to have a fan base of more than 2. The Semi-Pro team that started in Alexandria Bay actually did quite well for that was about it for entertainment for that area but they moved to Watertown. They are to far from Plattsburgh and Watertown, cities of any size of population in the US, to make it. It can be a ROYAL pain in the behind to go through customs for the Cornwall fans.
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        • #5
          Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

          Originally posted by bakdraft21 View Post
          what level is this going to be ?? kind of "A" ball??
          From what I have read, its going to be like the Federal league. Kids out of college, looking for an opportunity to play professional hockey.
          LETS GO BEARS!

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          • #6
            Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

            Originally posted by Saints17 View Post
            From what I have read, its going to be like the Federal league. Kids out of college, looking for an opportunity to play professional hockey.
            thats pretty much what i figured

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            • #7
              Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

              I can't believe that arena is going to host pro hockey.

              Edit: not pro... this is a prospects league
              Last edited by OSUPBPMike; 05-13-2014, 07:42 PM.
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              • #8
                Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                Originally posted by OSUPBPMike View Post
                I can't believe that arena is going to host pro hockey.

                Edit: not pro... this is a prospects league

                NAPHL NORTH ATLANTIC PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE is what it is called??


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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Birdwatcher View Post
                  NAPHL NORTH ATLANTIC PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE is what it is called??
                  There are two NAPHLs... North Atlantic Prospects Hockey League, and North American Prospects Hockey League...

                  I wonder what the status of that trademark is? :P
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                  • #10
                    Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                    The other team is in North Adams, MA. They're playing in the same dump rink that North Adams State Mass College of Liberal Arts used to play in.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                      Originally posted by CARDS_rule_the_Burgh View Post
                      There are two NAPHLs... North Atlantic Prospects Hockey League, and North American Prospects Hockey League...

                      I wonder what the status of that trademark is? :P
                      From the another website: http://www.oursportscentral.com/sports/?l_id=225


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                      • #12
                        Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                        I was talking to the Sports Director of the Ogdensburg Newspaper, the Urinal, opps the Journal and he has heard very little about the team going into Massena. But then again the Journal is not the broad encompassing paper.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                          Originally posted by DIIIFan View Post
                          This is going to be a tough sell for one of the smelting plants at ALCOA is closing. The only way that this might make it is if they are in the same league as the Cornwall team. Also they better do a lot of advertising in Cornwell to get the fan base there going. I really don't think they will take any draw from any of the college teams and Canton is to new to have a fan base of more than 2. The Semi-Pro team that started in Alexandria Bay actually did quite well for that was about it for entertainment for that area but they moved to Watertown. They are to far from Plattsburgh and Watertown, cities of any size of population in the US, to make it. It can be a ROYAL pain in the behind to go through customs for the Cornwall fans.
                          OSwego '88
                          I also just read in the Watertown Daily Times that the Privateers are not returning to Watertown next season....They are finalizing negotiations with a new team from a different league!! Maybe the NORTH ATLANTIC PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE????????


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                          • #14
                            Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                            Originally posted by Saints17 View Post
                            I wish them well, but I don't think the North Country is really a pro hockey type area. You have your St.Lawrence fans and your Clarkson fans. After that, you have your dedicated high school fans, SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam do have some locals who follow them but boy I think its going to be a tough draw. JMO
                            Massena had a semi-pro team back when I was in college. You didn't hear much about it. There was also a semi-semi-pro team playing out of Potsdam for a short period of time. I remember going to one of their games in my freshman year at Walker Arena against a Montreal Canadians "oldtimers" team. That of course never made it with all the college teams.

                            Maybe joecct remembers some of this.
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                            • #15
                              Re: Massena Goes Pro !!

                              I had fun watching the Morrisville, VT pro team before it went out of business a few years ago. There main problem was playing in a high school rink in a low population area.

                              Fans can now go to a pro game in Massena and then top it off at the Mohawk casino which has a new hotel on site. Cornwell is very close just over the big bridge over the St. Lawrence.
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