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Finally! Alaska Aces Are Back!
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:45 pm
by DanAKAL
Finally after a couple of years away the Alaska Aces are back in the Blues organization. Believe me, there is no place I would rather the Aces be. This year the Aces are sharing an affiliation with the Blues and Wild. While I'm not much on the shared affiliation I'll take what I can get. For now I'm just really glad the defending Kelly Cup Champion Alaska Aces are back in the Blues organization.
Dan
http://www.echl.com/aces-to-serve-as-af ... is-p193566
Re: Finally! Alaska Aces Are Back!
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:38 pm
by STLADOGG
Cool stuff man, good to see them again.
Re: Finally! Alaska Aces Are Back!
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:49 am
by dmiles2186
Welcome back. I'm bummed that I never went down to see the Evansville team when the Blues were affiliated with them. But the Aces as an ECHL affiliate just feels sort of natural. Glad they're back in the fold.
Re: Finally! Alaska Aces Are Back!
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:07 am
by DanAKAL
Amid all of the other great things with being back in the Blues organization I am really hoping that the Aces current coach, Rob Murray, can remain somewhere with the Blues. At this level the Aces have had three steller coaches in Davis Payne (Blues / Kings), Brent Thompson (Islanders), and now Rob Murray. Between Payne and Thompson was a former Aces player under Davis Payne, Keith McCambridge. Under his tenure as head coach of the Aces they loast game 7 of the Kelly Cup Finals to South Carolina. At last count he was the head coach of AHL Manitoba but I'm really not sure where he is now. All the other three coaches have a Kelly Cup Championship. Anyway, I hope that Minnesota doesn't get Rob Murray. Somehow he has to stay in the Blues system.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2012/ ... story.html
Dan
Re: Finally! Alaska Aces Are Back!
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:15 am
by DanAKAL
dmiles2186 wrote:Welcome back. I'm bummed that I never went down to see the Evansville team when the Blues were affiliated with them. But the Aces as an ECHL affiliate just feels sort of natural. Glad they're back in the fold.
Since we seem to have hockey through early and mid June up here (Kelly Cup Finals). That would be a very good time of year to come to ALaska and watch the Aces. Wouldn't want you to make the same mistake as you did with Evansville. I made the trip to St. Louis this year one week after the Blues were eliminated. The timing of that trip didn't work out quite the way I had it planned.
Dan