Head coach Todd Nelson special guest on Fury Monday
Published on September 26, 2005 under International Hockey League 2 (IHL 2)
Muskegon Lumberjacks News Release
MUSKEGON, MI.--- With their 14th season as the UHL's and minor pro hockey's best winning franchise less than two weeks henceforth, the two-time reigning Colonial Cup Champions of the United Hockey League, the Muskegon Fury, have formally announced the return of their ever-popular Fury Monday night radio program and its formal return to the airwaves for the 2005-06 season.
FURY HOTLINE PRESENTED BY PEPSI will mark its return for an unprecedented 11th consecutive year next MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 3RD AT 7:00 PM. The popular weekly Fury radio show will launch its latest season of programs by featuring special guest head coach TODD NELSON, who has guided the Fury club to two consecutive league championships, an unmatched and unrivaled achievement in the storied and illustrious 46-years of pro hockey history in Muskegon.
FURY HOTLINE PRESENTED BY PEPSI is on the docket every Monday night throughout the Fury hockey season under its usual two-hour program format of 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. In the 2005-06 hockey season, the Fury show will have a brand new radio address that can be found at WMHG-AM 1600. For a 10th straight year, the program will be presented live in front of a studio audience at RACQUETS DOWNTOWN GRILL, downtown Muskegon.
Under this all-new programming arrangement, FURY HOTLINE PRESENTED BY PEPSI will be presented on radio on WMHG-AM "MAGIC 1600" for the first hour from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. At the same time, the full two hours of the Fury weekly Monday night show will be presented live on the FURY INTERNET through the crowned kingpins' official web-site at www.furyhockey.com from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Having maintained its community-wide, high-visibility and high-profile as the âbest two hours of Muskegon area radio," FURY HOTLINE PRESENTED BY PEPSI, again, will be programmed every Monday night with the two-time reigning champions Fury players, coaches, management personnel, UHL officials and many other hockey-related personalities and dignitaries among the many varieties of featured guests.
As for the show's lead-off guest of the new season, Fury Coach Nelson, in his first two years as the Fury bench pacer, he has brilliantly orchestrated his Muskegon squad to a pair of titles with the "Furious Ones" becoming only the third team in UHL history to capture custody of the coveted Colonial Cup crown in back-to-back seasons. In the process, Nelson has achieved a scintillating coaching record of 156(98-40-18) for a winning percentage of a sparkling .686. In the Fury's two consecutive climbs to "The Cup," he has assembled an amazing mark of 28(23-5) for a win percentage of .822. In two short seasons, Nelson has become the Fury franchise all-time winning coach in the playoffs, including that unprecedented, unparalleled, undefeated perfect 11(11-0) surge to the circuit summit in his initial pro coaching endeavor in 2003-04.
FURY HOTLINE PRESENTED BY PEPSI will air every Monday night during the Fury hockey season and on a monthly basis during the summer off-season on both WMHG-AM "MAGIC 1600" and the FURY INTERNET on the Fury web-site at www.furyhockey.com.
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