Kootenay Ice to Wenatchee

Kootenay Ice to Wenatchee

  This is a tough post for me to write being an Ice season ticket holder. I never want to see them move but am being realistic about the situation. Unless the city of Cranbrook wakes the fuck up and does it soon the Ice will move. Its as simple as that. With attendance struggling to get to 2,000. Some nights they announce it at 2,500 but I can't see it. Hell when we won the WHL championship against Portland in 2011 we were struggling to get 2,000 in the final games. Cranbrook is a hockey town but a poor hockey town. Alot of people (only 20,000) can't afford to take their family to McDonalds let alone out to a game. At 20 a ticket times that by 4 plus food and shit. Not feasable for most.
  The Wenatchee Wild of the NAHL get almost 3,000 fans a game. And that is for hockey that is elite Junior B to be nice to that league. (people will say its junior A but it really doesn't look like it). Wenatchee tried to get into the BCHL this season. Wenatchee would fit in great in the American division with it being central to Spokane, Seattle, Everett, and Tri Cities. From what I hear too the fans are insane there for the wild. WHL would flourish in Wenatchee. (pictured below)

  But then what would Cranbrook get for hockey? With KIJHL teams a dime a dozen and too big of an arena for just Junior B. The city of Cranbrook should get a BCHL expansion or an AJHL expansion team. Or even in a scenerio which the NAHL probably isn't too keen on with their shitty history of Canadian teams the old Wild franchise. But with all the travel of going to California, Alaska, ect. The team wouldn't last long ask the citizens of Dawson Creek. So wake the fuck up Cranbrook and start supporting your team.