Be Free wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 9:37 pm
You are playing
HOCKEY in
TUCSON in
JUNE? I'm going to have to think about that ....
No, our AHL team got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs this year, so the only sheet of ice here at the Tucson Convention Center is done until training camp next September. We have to travel far to the North now to find ice, all the way to frosty Phoenix! They actually lost their NHL franchise last summer as they'd been kicked out of their arena and were playing at ASU's little 5,000 seater that this tournament is in.
Slightly off topic but MacGregor related... We were Roadrunner inaugural season ticket holders when the Coyotes moved their farm team to Tucson. Then the parent club ended up playing in an arena that was smaller than ours and were forced to relocate to Utah. I bought the streaming package to keep up with the team and any promoted Tucson players, which came with two free obstructed view tickets for a week day game in Salt Lake City. Not super likely to get used. Then come October, I see two 26X for sale in Salt Lake City and after some inquiries over facebook market place, we drive to Phoenix on a Saturday, buy two same day tickets to Salt Lake City, take a Lyft to the local U-haul after touchdown and drive down the street to a Mexican catering company where the facebook 26X is stored. Jose and I come to an agreement, we hook it up to the rented Silverado and tow it to the nearest Walmart, where the girlfriend shops for king-sized bedding and I manufacture a new trailer light assembly from their auto section. Once it's street legal-ish, we tow it to a hotel by the highway, eat and crash out. Next morning, Sunday, we hop on the highway, tow it 379 miles South down through Zion and arrive at Lake Powell at sunset. Monday morning, we splash her for the first time, spend the whole day on the water and then anchor for the night across the bay from where we put in. Next morning, Tuesday, we motor back across, pull her out and put her in dry storage across the road. Then we drive the 379 miles back to Salt lake City, drop the Silverado back at the same U-haul and take a Lyft to the Delta Center to watch Utah get blown out by Ottawa in the first two periods using our free tickets. Our very expensive free tickets. We grabbed a Lyft to the airport during the 2nd intermission, caught our flight back to Phoenix, then drove the remaining 2 hours back to Tucson.
So yeah, our Arizona hockey team moved to Utah so we flew there and brought a boat back to the desert.
