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Escambia County Looks To Bring Ice Hockey Back
April 10, 2009
Escambia County could once again be home to a hockey team after a vote Thursday morning by the Escambia County Commission.
The commission voted 3-0 to explore lease options with the Southern Professional Hockey League to bring hockey back to the Pensacola Civic Center, which was known as the “Hanger” for 12 years while it hosted the Pensacola Ice Pilots. Commissioners Kevin White and Grover Robinson were out of town for Thursday’s meeting of the commission’s Committee of the Whole.
The return of ice hockey to the Pensacola Civic Center is not without a price tag; it will cost at least $247,244 to upgrade Civic Center equipment for ice hockey.
The majority owner of the team would be former winger for the Philadelphia Flyers Tim Kerr. Kerr owned the Ice Pilots for two years before it was sold in 2005. Kerr says he will write a $1 million check to get the team started.
Kerr wants a lease on the Civic Center at $2,000 per game, considerably less than the $3,500 paid by the Ice Pilots per game. He also wants 15 percent of the concession receipts; the Ice Pilots got nothing off concessions.
The new team would pay 30 games instead of the 38 played by the Ice Pilots, and an extra $1 would be added to each ticket for the team.
Under the commission’s direction, County Administrator Bob McLaughlin is to negotiate a lease with the SPHL for board approval by May 1.
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One Response to “Escambia County Looks To Bring Ice Hockey Back”
JUST SAY NO! Hockey is always a bad idea- the few people that go do not justify the capital outlay- interest falls off, and we wind up throwing more money into a hole…
the article says it all-
it will cost at least $247,244 to upgrade Civic Center equipment for ice hockey.
lease on the Civic Center at $2,000 per game, considerably less than the $3,500 paid by the Ice Pilots per game. He also wants 15 percent of the concession receipts; the Ice Pilots got nothing off concessions.
an extra $1 would be added to each ticket for the team.