Vikings to return to Jamestown?

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Vikings to return to Jamestown?

Post by BreakersFan » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:51 pm

When the MAHL announced on March 18 that the Vikings were moving to Ohio, it said the team's new arena would be announced "next week".

It has been well over a month with no announcement. And now, if you go to lakeerievikings.com and click on "arena" the information and pictures for the Jamestown Savings Bank Arena are back.

Maybe Haines had a change of heart in Jamestown and the Jets won't be the only team playing this fall....

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Post by Minor League Man » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:26 pm

[quote=""BreakersFan""]When the MAHL announced on March 18 that the Vikings were moving to Ohio, it said the team's new arena would be announced "next week".

It has been well over a month with no announcement. And now, if you go to lakeerievikings.com and click on "arena" the information and pictures for the Jamestown Savings Bank Arena are back.

Maybe Haines had a change of heart in Jamestown and the Jets won't be the only team playing this fall....[/quote]
Actually, it listed tryout information at The Pond in Auburn Township, Ohio for April 18-19.

So I'd say that's their new home.
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Post by tops804 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:15 pm

Auburn Township is located just south, and very east (in another county)
of Cleveland. It could be considered north of Kent, Ohio.

As I live in the Cleveland area, I can assure you that there was absolutely no
media coverage of the Vikings since they came to the area and announced
tryouts.

BreakersFan -- I'm pretty sure that the Vikings website was never updated.
It's kind of a re-creation of the MAHL's home page with some mish-mosh about the
Vikings thrown in.

For those who care: The Pond's website
http://www.skateatthepond.com/index.cfm

My feeling is that the team will either move, never play, or play "ABA type"
games (You hear a score, but have no witnesses. Along with proof that the rink
was otherwise used at the time...)

Of course, thats assuming that the league can drop a puck in November in the first place.
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Post by Geoff » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:28 am

He hasn't had a change of heart. He's just too lazy to get it fixed. Haines mentality:

Why change it twice (take down old info, put up new info later) whan I can just do it once (put up new info)?

The party that would have to change their minds for a MAHL return to Jamestown would not be the MAHL but rather the City of Jamestown.

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