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Massena Goes Pro !!

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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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Saints17 said:
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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what level is this going to be ?? kind of "A" ball??
 
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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
 
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I can't believe that arena is going to host pro hockey.

Edit: not pro... this is a prospects league
 
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The other team is in North Adams, MA. They're playing in the same <strike>dump</strike> rink that <strike>North Adams State</strike> Mass College of Liberal Arts used to play in.
 
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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.
Oswego '88
 
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DIIIFan said:
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
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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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Saints17 said:
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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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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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.
 
hawk said:
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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Is that next to Plattsburg where coach Emory coaches ?
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
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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If I may Russell, I believe you are referring to the Potsdam Pioneers. My father played a season or two for them. It was a "meat and potatoes" type league, from what he described the movie Slapshot isn't too far from the truth. I think they had teams in Utica and Syracuse as well.
 
Saints17 said:
If I may Russell, I believe you are referring to the Potsdam Pioneers. My father played a season or two for them. It was a "meat and potatoes" type league, from what he described the movie Slapshot isn't too far from the truth. I think they had teams in Utica and Syracuse as well.
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When I was at CCT, the Pios played (and won) in the Ottawa Valley League. There were a bunch of ex Clarkson players playing and it was not that bad.

The downside was the games were played at the Pine Street Arena which at that time had wooden bleachers and fence wire behind the nets instead of glass.
 
joecct said:
When I was at CCT, the Pios played (and won) in the Ottawa Valley League. There were a bunch of ex Clarkson players playing and it was not that bad.

The downside was the games were played at the Pine Street Arena which at that time had wooden bleachers and fence wire behind the nets instead of glass.
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They played pro games at Pine? Wow....its not Tri Town / Louisville but still....
 
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