The GHL is going through some scheduling conflicts as of this week. games have been postponed due to the event calendar in our GHL arenas being crammed with other events. We will now have to resort to some games being non-televised. Not all games will be non-televised, as we will have 2 of the week's 4 games being played. If we can find more games to broadcast, we will broadcast them.
moving on to some lighter news, the GHL has officially set up a D-League, or Development League, which will consist of 26 teams awarded to the following cities:
Anaheim
Boston
Buffalo
Calgary
Chicago
Dallas
Detroit
Edmonton
Florida
Hartford
Los Angeles
Montreal
New Jersey
New York (Long Island)
New York (New York City)
Ottawa
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Quebec
San Jose
St. Louis
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington
Winnipeg
We are well aware that most of these cities also host NHL teams, but the NHL has accepted our bids for the cities supporting NHL teams. Further information will be given at a later date.
Now we shift our focus on Team MTN. Dew's goaltending situation.
Team MTN. Dew, for those who don't know, is one of our original 12 teams, but was met by hockey purists as "nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to advertise". Off the ice, reaction to the team name was met with disgust, if not pure hatred. On the ice, the team played about as good as their small fanbase, winning only 2 games out of 42 in 2008-09. The reason was their goaltending. The "un-lovable losers" as GHL fans call them have 2 goalies splitting shifts throughout the season, Jim Park and Glenn Healy. Park's age is preventing him from being a legitimate star. At age 62, he is the oldest player in the GHL after Team Canada's Paul Henderson retired over the summer. Park has had very few good games. Glenn Healy has had to bail Park out on several occasions. However, Healy isn't much younger. At age 52, Glenn Healy has shown his age as well. Both goalies are subject to injuries. Last season the injuries were so severe to both goalies that the team's medical trainer had to play goal for the remainder of the season. Luckily, Team MTN. Dew made good use of the draft, signing younger goalies such as Ben Scrivens and Carter Hutton. Who's going to be the starter? No one really knows. We'll have to see when they take the ice for their opening night game.
That should do it for today's GHL blog post, so take care, and follow the GHL on Google+ and subscribe to our YouTube channel. And now we have a Facebook Page, so go check that out as well.
Warm Regards,
Mario Ardais
GHL commissioner
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