Prime offseason stuff lol! Who is your favorite mascot?

I live a few towns over and saved up to see the game on the 17th. Specifically the game against the Norfolk Admirals. It's going to be my first time watching hockey live and im really hyped about it, but I don't know how good our team or their chances are.

Next season will be fun for the fans of Fort Wayne and the Komets as they celebrate 75 years of Komet hockey at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.

The Komets are the second oldest minor league hockey franchise behind only the Hershey Bears who celebrate their own 95th anniversary season this year. And 8th oldest professional North American hockey team behind only the "Original Six" and Hershey.

This is going to be a fun season for those of us in Northeast Indiana.

I hope everyone has a fantastic season cheering their teams on.

Bring back #RyanFanti

From the article:

1. Indianapolis, Indiana

One city with a brief and long-ago hockey history is Indianapolis. It's where Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier's pro careers started in the WHA with the Racers in 1978, before the team was sold to Peter Pocklington and became the Edmonton Oilers. Indianapolis is also a city Frank Seravalli cited a year ago as a potential future NHL site.

Indianapolis has been home to an ECHL team, the Fuel, since 2014, and as the home of the NFL's Colts, NBA's Pacers, and a regular site for the Men's NCAA Basketball Final Four, there's bones there for professional success. Obviously, they would need ownership and investors and with the beefy cost involved for expansion, it would be a huge ask for a mid-size market.

Saw this article from another forum that states that apparently, there's a deal in place to move an ECHL team to Houston once their current "contract" (which I assume means lease) is up.

The question is, who?

As a Penguins fan from southwest Florida, this is one of the best days of my life.

I’m so sorry Nailers fans, yall don’t deserve this.

OUR BOY IS BACK!

I’ve written a scouting report on one of Indy’s top defencemen from last season, who is making the jump to the EIHL with the Belfast Giants.

Feedback is appreciated!

The Bloomington Bison announced today that there will be an affiliation update this week…

Any word on the affiliations for Winnipeg or Buffalo? It’s after the 4th you would think these things would be announced soon…

Under the new ownership Penguins are switching affiliates from Wheeling to Florida

16-year NHL veteran and Houston businessman Michel Petit says his group Blueline SlapShot LLC has agreed to bring an ECHL franchise to Houston, which will play in a new 8,000-seat arena just south of the Woodlands.

He expects the ECHL club to begin playing in Houston as early as 2028-29.

FULL STORY: Minor-league hockey heading to Houston. Will the NHL follow?