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Broome
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UHL’s
Ice Hawks Move To Glens Falls
June
15, 1999
Hockey
is headed back to Glens Falls.
The
owner of the United Hockey League’s Winston-Salem Ice Hawks
announced Monday that the team is moving to Glens Falls.
The team will be called the Adirondack Ice Hawks and will
join the BC Icemen in a five-team Eastern Division.
Mohawk Valley (Utica), Asheville (N.C.) and Knoxville (Tenn.)
round out the division.
“I
think it’s a good fit for the city,” Glens Falls mayor Robert
Regan said.
Training
camp will begin Oct. 4. The
season opener will be Oct. 15.
Robbie
Nichols, former coach of the UHL’s Flint Generals and a member of
the American Hockey League’s Adirondack Red Wings in the late
1980s, was introduced as a partner and general manager.
Ice Hawks owner Art Shaver, a Delhi native, said Nichols may
appoint himself coach. Nichols,
who had been with the Generals for four seasons, resigned his post
earlier this month.
Glens
Falls was left without a team last month, when the Detroit Red Wings
announced the team was suspending operations.
The Red Wings will move their AHL affiliate to a suburb of
Toledo, Ohio, for the 2000-01 season.
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