You should eventually do the arenas of the 3 major junior hockey leagues: the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL.

The ECHL is a great fun league!! Prices for games are very reasonable plus the quality of play is pretty good. A good family atmosphere! Just like most minor league sports venues!

@Nucksfan987

5 ай бұрын

Yeah! just make sure the teams dont forget their jerseys when on the road

The North Charleston Coliseum is such a great place to see a hockey game. Granted I am biased, I grew up seeing hockey games, wrestling shows and had my high school graduation there

The Komets frequently sell out games in Fort Wayne, even when they are not doing good, so the seating is adequate and there are talks of expanding again. Great video!

@MegaHawk62

6 ай бұрын

You’ve got a good coach there now. We hated to lose him in Florida, but he’s going to take you places!

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

The Komets have quite a legacy that dates back to the IHL days of the early 1950s. It’s a testament to their fans that they’ve supported the team throughout the decades and leagues!

@Jaxon_Knight13

6 ай бұрын

wait! for real? there’s a possibility that the seating capacity is gonna expand?

@TrueStory1827

3 ай бұрын

I think he’s talking about the $1B downtown improvement proposal that includes a new arena. It was initially a smaller arena but there was talk of expanding the capacity.

@ToastNeo

2 ай бұрын

Wow, the crowd in the photo used in the video was sad. I've never seen it that empty.

Some friends and I drove down to a Nailers game years ago from Pittsburgh, and man, did we have fun. Not quite Pens hockey, but we had a blast. Hockey is so underrated.

@robertdiez3091

5 ай бұрын

That's a feeder team to the Pens so it is Pens Hockey not NHL level

@VIPER0308

5 ай бұрын

@robertdiez3091 ya, it's basically baby pens, too, but not quite NHL talent. Honestly, I like that better. These guys are working their butts off to get a chance to play in the NHL, and I respect that grind.

@robertdiez3091

5 ай бұрын

@@VIPER0308 as a Caps fan I'm lucky to to see each level from growing up in central pa having Bears an Caps game then moved south an watch Rays games. An watched a lot of junior hockey that ive noticed at lower levels you notice a player reads the game bit faster than everyone else or passes a bit cleaner will get called up.

@VIPER0308

5 ай бұрын

@robertdiez3091 I also saw a Bears game. Also, it was a fun time. I'd like to see a Scranton Pens game someday, too. I only ever played rec dek in high school. Was a blast to play. Made me appreciate the young guns who refine their game as they move up the ladder.

@robertdiez3091

5 ай бұрын

@@VIPER0308 Their were a few players I saw at the bears before they got moved to St Louis then quickly got a spot on the NHL team an got a cup within a year or two. I saw Vanachek in person he is huge wall in goal an made crazy saves wish the Cap kept him. The goalie grouping for at least three years were strong NHL to ECHL guys getting called up so fast one bad game back down shut everything down again an go back up.

I watched this while wearing my Orlando Solar Bears t-shirt . My wife and I are proud season ticket holders… GO BEARS !!!

@Soggy5271

6 ай бұрын

LETS GO BEARSSSSS

The ECHL acronym officially has no meaning anymore, as the league has expanded across North America

@BBAKER22

6 ай бұрын

And

@SphericalThinker

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, both ECHL and SPHL are orphan initialism now.

@Sh_epy

5 ай бұрын

there even used to be a team in alaska lol

I worked at the arena here in Victoria when we had the Salmon Kings in the ECHL. In stereotypical ECHL action, there was a fight 3 seconds into a game.

@billpenna

6 ай бұрын

What took em so long?

I’m a Florida Everblades season ticket holder, and it’s a LOT of fun down here. For hockey being a cold weather sport, who would have thought the champions for the last two years would be from Florida?

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

That wasn’t the first time a champ would come from Florida. The Orlando Solar Bears began life in the International Hockey League in the 90s. The Solar Bears actually won the final Turner Cup in league history in 2001 before the league dissolved; six teams joined the AHL, four teams folded, and the Solar Bears moved to the ECHL. BTW, the Lightning would like to say a few words about a Florida team winning a hockey championship… ⚡️🏒😉

13:07 Wesbanco Arena (then known as the Wheeling Civic Center) was designed around a basketball court rather than an ice rink, in part because it was to serve as the home for Wheeling (Jesuit) College basketball, although they moved back on-campus after a couple of seasons. Even with the floor-level seats pushed back, the ice rink is only 185 feet long instead of NHL-regulation 200 feet, with the shortage taken out of the center neutral ice area. That creates some interesting tactical challenges for game planning as well as roster composition.

@nailitdown219

5 ай бұрын

Tell you what, the game is a lot more physical on the short ice. What I was thinking to make it regulation, on the north and south side of the arena where the traps are, take out the lower level and extend the floor. Smart idea.

@JBM425

5 ай бұрын

@@nailitdown219 The problem is, the WCC/Wesbanco was designed from the beginning around a basketball court. Hockey was an afterthought. Doing major demolition work to refit the arena for an NHL rink might be expensive enough that they might be better off with a new arena. Ironically, one of the plans created by an engineer in the early 70s who was something of a gadfly around Wheeling government was designed around a regulation-size ice rink; considering that the arena never took off for college basketball and ultimately Wheeling College gave up on it, and the success of The Thunderbirds/Nailers, they would have been better off with his design!

On a morbid note, Heritage Bank Center, Cincinnati Cyclones, is the site of The Who concert tragedy in 1979. The Who didn’t play another show in Cincinnati until 2022

I actually went to school and played rugby with the Indy Fuel's goalie. Good dude, glad to see he's doing well

Just a note Market Square Arena hosted Elvis's final show and Randy Rhodes next to last

Great! Now more of those European hockey arenas!

ECHL getting an expansion to Athens, Georgia and Lake Tahoe, Nevada which hockey fans want the Reno Bronze Knights to follow suit with the Henderson Silver Knights and the Vegas Golden Knights but the real name is the "Tahoe Knight Monsters"

@cjdapd7599

6 ай бұрын

??? Knight Monsters? WTF?

@Gabriel_Rojas_Arena

6 ай бұрын

@cjdapd7599 yeah and the colors in the logo are Teal, Black Vegas Gold, white Abbreviation is likely "TKM"

@andrewclarke8630

6 ай бұрын

Definite facepalm

@durstin8er

6 ай бұрын

You do know that the owner of the Grand Sierra resort in Reno owns the AhL Tuscon road runners and the NHL Arizona coyotes. And the grand Sierra resort is building a 10k arena that will be hockey ready once the lease is up on the road runners current arena.

@tylergamertv2-gr6lw

4 ай бұрын

Bloomington Got An ECHL Franchise And That Is The Bison.

Reading's Santander Arena is indeed on the site of a former theater, the Astor. Some preservationists wanted to keep the old theater going, but by the time it met the wrecking ball, it was a dump. The chandelier and some wrought-iron work were saved and can be seen inside the main entrance to the arena.

RIP Aces, miss you every hockey season 🥲

@SphericalThinker

6 ай бұрын

It’s wild they made that work as long as it did.

@wyolaskan1868

5 ай бұрын

That new auto start shop will always be the Aces offices to me.

Idaho resident here! Thanks for choosing our area. I agree the exterior isn’t much to look at, but the experience inside is nothing short of blast! First goal fish toss, “He Shoots! He Scores! Hey Goalie! You suck!!” after every Steelheads goal, chuck a puck during the second intermission. It’s a total vibe going to a Steelheads game

The Icemen were in Evansville, Indiana for a long time and eventually made it to the ECHL. But the owner was so greedy and ended up selling the team to Jacksonville.

1:37 It was originally known as Mile One Centre, due to St. John's being the easternmost city in Canada. Mary Brown's, who has the naming rights, is a chain of fried chicken restaurants mainly in Canada. Also in the arena, the press sit in an area known as the Bob Cole Media Centre. It's named for a legendary broadcaster from St. John's who called games for "Hockey Night in Canada" for 50 years.

@neilwhitaker6284

6 ай бұрын

Mary Brown's is still in existence? That brings back memories of grade 7 and 8 back in the 80s walking over at lunch for a box of taters.

@bluebear1985

6 ай бұрын

@neilwhitaker6284 Yes it is. A new location opened in Thunder Bay recently.

@billpenna

6 ай бұрын

Is St John's where the TCH begins? Mile zero? Sounds slightly better than Kilometer Zero arena.

@neilwhitaker6284

6 ай бұрын

@@bluebear1985 nice! I grew up in Southern Ontario (well Golden Horseshoe area) and we had a few of them around there in the 80s but haven't seen them in years.

@bluebear1985

6 ай бұрын

@neilwhitaker6284 There seems to be a bunch of them in southern Ontario right now. As for here in the great northwest, not so much.

The Atlanta Gladiators are the direct descendant of the team I grew up with, the Mobile Mysticks.

Love the hockey videos keep em up

The bits are out of control thsi episode I love it

In the 1970's Norfolk Scope had the Virginia Squires of the ABA and the Virginia Wings of the AHL. One night the arena had over 9,000 for a Richmond Robins vs Virginia Wings game and just across the James River, the Hampton Gulls of the SHL had over 6,000 for their hockey game at the Hampton Roads Coliseum. Hockey Night in Tidewater!

Been waiting for this one!

All of these arenas look really good! I like them. The Florida Everblades have one of the best team names ever.

@itsmrchase_

10 күн бұрын

One of the coolest logos as well

4:41 Believe it or not the DCU just underwent a major renovation and now all the inner bowl seats are blue and they're padded seats!

The ECHL is a fantastic minor league, and our Cincinnati Cyclones are a great and reasonably affordable way to spend a weekend night in the winter.

I was just at the Scope on Saturday night. It was a fantastic venue and the game was awesome as well. First ECHL game in over 20 years for me.

There are a few more leagues to cover such as the FPHL and the SPHL which are a lower leagues to ECHL. My favorite arena was the Idaho Steelheads

Love my Adirondack Thunder! Still call it the Glens Falls Civic Center.

Thank you for this ( I live in Moundsville West Virginia witch is about 25 minutes south of Wheeling) and the Nailers have the loudest goal horn in the league

10,480 is actually the average fan capacity. It’s the number fans that show up to weekday and weekend games most of all. It depends on the game

I was waiting for this video lets go!!!!

ECHL has since become an orphaned acronym. it used to stand for East Coast Hockey League. Now ECHL is the actual name of the league.

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

It’s like how KFC is now just KFC and not “Kentucky Fried Chicken” (even though most of us of a certain age still call it that).

The ECHL is ny favorite hockey league. The teams are just si varied but also close enough to each other you can go to plenty of away games.

I’m surprised the Norfolk Scope is still open. Last I remember, D Generation X tried to invade it while WCW was hosting Monday Nitro lol

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

The Scope is an architectural marvel despite its size!

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER LES GOO ECHL

Trying to figure out how an East Coast Hockey League team ended up in Boise of all places, especially since it's further west than eleven of the teams in the Western Hockey League.

@psav2005

6 ай бұрын

There used to be a league called the West Coast Hockey League, and when it folded the ECHL brought in some of its team, including Idaho. Once that happened the ECHL dropped the East Coast Hockey League name, so it just goes by ECHL now with the acronym officially having no meaning anymore

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@psav2005Correct. It’s like how KFC no longer means “Kentucky Fried Chicken;” it’s just KFC. As you noted, the ECHL dropped the “East Coast” part due to its westward expansion and is now known solely by those initials.

Would love to see the SPHL or FPHL (especially the FPHL which has some really fun arenas)

I used to semi-regularly attend Rapid City Rush games before moving to Alaska. My wife and I were excited about the prospect of catching minor-league hockey without having to drive 2 hours one-way to attend a game. About a week after we got things rolling on our move, the Alaska Aces announced they were ceasing operations and moving to Maine. We were bummed out, to say the least.

Cross insurance arena formally the Cumberland County Civic Center home of the original Mariners and Pirates AHL. Old barn with a new face lift. The tales these barns could tell of the games played in their glory days, endless.

I grew up going to Indianapolis Ice games at the Pepsi Coliseum (now the Indians Farmers Coliseum for the Indy Fuel). This venue was perfect for minor league hockey! It has super old school turnstiles, doors, seats, etc. It's a proper old school hockey barn!

The kalamazoo Wings are about to build a new arena also hope you do a video of the SPHL hockey soon

The Royal yawning is so accurate

As a born and raised Norfolkian, I appreciate you got the pronunciation of Norfolk pretty dang close to how us locals say it. I grew up going to hockey games and wrestling matches at Scope. The original Admirals coach, John Brophy, started as much s#@t with the other teams as the players did and brought home several league championships. Those were good times.

I love the Toledo walleye

have you considered making shorts on some of the better or more interesting stadiums in the world? something like parken in copenhagen or that kind of thing? just thought it might be a cool idea in case you were looking for another little thing to do

The original arena at the Monument in Rapid City was built in 1977, but the ice arena for the Rush was built in 2008.

@gregsells8549

6 ай бұрын

The Monument was originally called Rushmore Plaza. Rapid City is the gateway to Mount Rushmore.

@wyolaskan1868

5 ай бұрын

Rushmore Plaza is now called The Monument? Man, a lot has change since I left The Hills

Finally. Go Ghost Pirates!

check out the future Caraquet,NB, Canada, arena, presently in construction. One ice lenght wall if all windows, where you can see the town.

Happy to see the correct answer was the BOK Center at the end. I went to a lot of games there in college, even watched some from the cat walk above the ice.

In case it shows up again in one of your videos, for the BOK Center in Tulsa (16:14), you say the letters individually B-O-K, not make a chicken noise.

The DCU Arena formally The Centrum. No more hosting the Celtics preseason. They haven’t been there in years. The history is probably better as a concert venue. I saw U2 there in the spring of 83, was one of their first arena gigs. I saw them in a theatre in Boston in the fall 82. Some of the other bands I saw in the DCU: REM, The Kinks, Phish, J Geils Band. Probably more but my memory is fuzzy.

YES!!! Please do the WHL next!

9:15 Cincinnati’s Heritage Bank Center was originally called Riverfront Coliseum when it opened in 1975. Its major tenant was the World Hockey Association’s Cincinnati Stingers, which played there from 1975 until the league dissolved in 1979. Its listed capacity for hockey at the time was 15,820; renovations over the years reduced that capacity. Had a 1978 NHL-WHA merger proposal been accepted by the NHL Board of Governors, the Stingers (and the Houston Aeros) would have made it to the NHL. When a plan was finally approved in 1979, only four WHA teams were part of the “expansion”/merger, and this time the Stingers were left out.

@JBM425

6 ай бұрын

FWIW, the Stingers were granted a WHA franchise in 1974 but had to wait for the completion of Riverfront Coliseum in 1975 to commence play. They were allowed to sign and draft players in advance, though, and some were loaned to another WHA club, the Phoenix Roadrunners, for the 1974-75 season.

Great video! Would be nice to see one about the SPHL and FPHL too!

@SphericalThinker

6 ай бұрын

The Fed would probably be hard to find photos for.

Sweet!

12:32 A few years ago, a new junior A team was founded near Thunder Bay, Ontario called Kam River Fighting Walleye. Soon after the team was announced, they had to redesign their logo due to it being too similar to that of the Toledo Walleye, even though the logo was actually orange and black. The new redesigned logo still retained those colours, but they had to make the fish look different. Kind of weird, eh?

@TheHWHunter

27 күн бұрын

Similar? They stole the logo and changed the color and the teeth! They couldn't come up with something on their own and got caught!

you should definitely do Canands major junior leagues (OHL, WHL, QMJHL)

Hockey East next? Please and thank you!

You should do a video on all the arenas of the USHL!

Funnily enough, this video came at a very good time given that yesterday, Lake Tahoe announced the name of their team that'll start play next year! They're called the Knight Monsters, so hopefully this gets updated next year =)

@mjbull5156

6 ай бұрын

Lake Tahoe is now really stretching the notion of "East Coast"

@barbarian92

6 ай бұрын

​@@mjbull5156 I mean, the Alaska Aces played in the league, so the "East Coast" name was always antiquated

@MercSamurai09

6 ай бұрын

As a Tahoe native. I’m excited so Go Monsters!!!

@noni4117

5 ай бұрын

@@MercSamurai09 it´s the knight monsters

@MercSamurai09

5 ай бұрын

@@noni4117 the monsters would be an abbreviation and I know they’re the knight monsters

Little note, you used the wrong Admirals logo up in the corner. The logo you used is from when they played in the AHL.

Can we get a WHL ( can't remember if there is a video) and WCL (baseball) please!

Nice for the ECHL

Amway Center has veen renamed the Kia Center and is also home to the Orlando Magic (NBA) and the Orlando Predators (AFL)

Do SPHL next! Wanna see my Huntsville Havoc get featured on here!

Whenever I see the Norfolk Scope, I have a tendency to think of WCW wrestling.

You gotta do an update including Tahoe Monsters expansion team playing at Tahoe Blue Event Center

Tulsa Oilers is also the name of an Indoor Football League football team.

I went to two Orlando solar bears games to Florida in 2018 and 2022

I'm going to the ATL Gladiators game Sunday and im sitting on the glass next to the bench

When I was stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia back in 1996/1997. They had a big campaign to try and get an NHL franchise. They would have been called the Admirals, of course. They didn’t get it. I wonder why? 🧐

@kurzy17

6 ай бұрын

They were actually going to be called the Hampton Roads Rhinos, the colors would have been purple and teal because the potential ownership group was headed by the owner of the Charlotte Hornets at the time.

@semipenguin

6 ай бұрын

@@kurzy17 That’s cool. I couldn’t quite remember. I know everyone was excited. Thanks for the info

Norfolk Scope is interesting because it's known more for it's history in Pro Wrestling than hockey, WCW had numerous shows there and iirc, WWE, during the attitude era, crashed a WCW show there in a legendary bit.

Could you do OHL Next? Go Ice Dogs!

Can you do the SPHL next?

I hoping Richmond will eventually get a hockey team again

Yes finally

The Railers’s actually just had a remodel done so the seats match.

Now we need the NAHL

GO RUSH!😊

ID be interested inb lower german leages, 3rd, 4th divisions (football, ice hockes tc)

The Indy Fuel are building there own arena

Let’s go Knight Monsters!!!!

For the utah grizzlies that's an old picture we had screens in the middle, wrapped the stadium , and 3 big ones telling the score I can take pictures and send them to you

FINALLY

Swedish Hockey League next! In addition to a few recent NHL games, Sweden is josting the World Junior Championships this year.

Miss when the Thunder played at the Kansas Coliseum. Intrust Bank Arena is pretty meh and never draws a big crowd so games are always quiet

7:33 the top level is only used for NBA games but not for ECHL games? Why would they block the top level for ECHL games?

@therealdudemitch

2 ай бұрын

The ECHL games don’t sell nearly the same amount of tickets as the NBA, so instead of having the fans super spread out in a too-big arena, they keep it closer to the ice

1:50 I have a Newfoundland dog. If he came across a crocodile in the water he'd just want to play.

@DonKnight-qi4tu

5 ай бұрын

160 pound hairy lap dog. Only fear is drowning in drool, good swimmer they'll save you.

@janellek21

5 ай бұрын

@@DonKnight-qi4tu Ichinojo weighs 175 lbs, he plows through the lochs like Michael Phelps, and he does drool enough to fill a bathtub!

Could you do OHL?

Make a QMJHL video!

As of Yesterday the Amway Center is now known as the KIA Center 🎉

Now do the arenas of the CHL!

Please do SHL, Swedish Hockey League

please do WHL or BCHL next

Hertz Arena is awesome

Please do ELH (Czech extraleague of ice hockey)

GO GHOST PIRATES 👻🏴‍☠️ *CPORT!*