HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – For the second time in less than a week, a minor league hockey team was involved in a travel accident. Early Friday morning the team bus of the Huntsville Havoc was involved in a crash along Interstate … Continue reading
Category Archives: SPHL
TC Cyclones improve playoff chances
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The Southern Professional Hockey League’s 2008-09 race for playoff spots has one competitor that would have been dismissed as not having much of a chance earlier this season. Struggling over the first part of the campaign, the Twin City … Continue reading
SPHL mid-season update
JOHNS ISLAND, SC — With the calendar changing to January, and coming off a week in which all teams played three straight games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 2008-09 SPHL season is starting to crystallize as the teams compete … Continue reading
FireAntz start anew
FAYETTEVILLE, NC – The Fayetteville FireAntz are confident that a New Year will bring a new beginning. They are a talented group of players, with skill and character. Unfortunately as a team they have played well below their potential, spending … Continue reading
SPHL experiments with four-man officiating
RICHMOND, Va. – In keeping with the SPHL’s desire to develop officials as well as players, Commissioner Jim Combs announced in early October that the league would utilize four-person officiating crews in a limited number of games this season to … Continue reading
SPHL goalie Vigier wins in ECHL debut
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – Ian Vigier, in his second season in the Southern Professional Hockey League with the Columbus Cottonmouths, was called up to the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays late last Friday evening for what is expected to be a … Continue reading