Monday, April 30, 2012

CHL: Thunder's rival won't compete this season - South Florida Business Journal:

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In addition, the New Mexico Scorpions have alsoclosed operations. As a result, the CHL announcesd it will enter into its 18th season with a revised playofff format and 15 teams forthe 2009-10 Oklahoma City was considered the CHL’s model franchise. Last it led the league in attendance by drawinvg morethan 208,000 fans — or 6,508 per Chris Presson, who guided the Thunder out of bankruptcy during his tenure as general got his start in professional sports as an intern with the Blazer in 1992. He would go on to becomwe the team’s assistant general manager and admitxs that he ran the Thunder in the same manner that the Blazerswere run.
Presson, who was Oklahomwa City’s general manager from 2001-04, is now generao manager of , which will open earlty next year. The CHL now consists of two conferencesx withno divisions. The Northern Conference will haveseveb teams, including the Thunder, Bossier-Shreveporrt Mudbugs, Colorado Eagles, Mississippi Riverkings, Rapid City Rush, Tulsa and the expansion Missouri The Southern Conference will featurre eight teams: the Amarillo Arizona Sundogs, Corpus Christi IceRays, Laredo Odessa Jackalopes, Rio Grande Valleyh Killer Bees, Texas Brahmas, and the expansiojn Allen Americans. The league’s playoff format remains as it has since the 2007-08 season.
The five teams from each conferencd with the highest point totalsd qualify forthe playoffs. The Thunder openxs the 2009-10 season on October 16 on the road and will play thei final home opener at the Kansasd Coliseum the following In mid-January, the Thunder will move to the new Intrusg Bank Arena.

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