Komets

There's been a debate going all spring about the validity of changing the United Hockey League name to the International Hockey League. The owners may have disbanded the UHL and started fresh with the IHL, though the fans see a different name but the same teams, coaches and players. 

It might provide some more answers for you. It was certainly a lot of fun to write today. It's not breaking news or anything like that, but I still think you'll find it interesting.

The International Hockey League (IHL) conducted a dispersal draft on Wednesday to disperse players from the 2006-07 final rosters of the Chicago Hounds, Elmira Jackals, Quad City Mallards and Rockford IceHogs.  Those four Member Clubs will not participate in the 2007-08 IHL season.

Here are some of the things he had to say:

Guy Dupuis played the six-team West Coast Hockey League in 2002-03 and says he sees no reason why it can't work now.

Some highlights:

* No truth to the rumor they were involved in or interested in purchasing either Port Huron or Bloomington. ``I think a lot of the discussion came on that because we were involved in all the negotiations in those deals,'' Michael Franke said. ``With Richard leaving, I was the person in the middle of all that representing the league. Somebody had to be there.''

* There will be a new record book and the league is studying  if all the old IHL trophies are available, and if they are, do they want to use them or go in a different  direction.

We'll be here for the foreseeable future. I'll have more to post later.

Komets forward Jonathan Goodwin has decided it's time to start the rest of his life. Goodwin, 25, has  announced his retirement from professional hockey.

"There comes a point and time when I realized I couldn't go any further and I wasn't going to get called up any more,'' Goodwin said from Waltham, Mass. "I didn't want to be a 30-year old guy trying to start out and enter the work force again. That five years makes a big difference.''

This is from an email to Dave Schmidt of The Senior Report

In an on-air interview during the second intermission of Game 7 of the Colonial Cup Finals with Kalamazoo broadcaster Mike Modugno, UHL President/CEO Richard Brosal mentioned that an announcement by the league should be forthcoming next week or maybe in 7-10 days. He also said that fans would be very excited to hear the news.

Regards,
John Odom
Vice President of Media Relations

It's 0-0 after two periods, but man, has there been plenty of action. Both goaltenders have been amazing.

Rockford's Jesse Bennefield received a slashing major and a game misconduct, and the Komets' Mario Larocque recieved an instigation penalty for retaliating. UHL President Richard Brosal is in attendance tonight and the league is going to review whether the instigation penalty was the proper call since Larocque could argue that he was simply defending himself from the slash. I'll let you know what I hear.