Bring Ice to Lubbock

This would be a great opportunity to let the city know a rink would be a great idea for the city of Lubbock!

Public input sought on new Parks and Recreation management plan The City of Lubbock Parks and Recreation Department is seeking public input on its Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Master Plan.

There is a rink in Aguadilla Puerto Rico but not in Lubbock!!?!? Let’s get this changed !!!

Let’s see how many jerseys we can get to local Chipotle’s!! Wonder if they are ready!!?!

You Can Get BOGO Chipotle This Week If You’re A Hockey Fan This dinner is a no-brainer.

Texas tech reppin at the Winter Classic!

https://www.newschannel6now.com/2019/10/15/wichita-falls-welcome-new-hockey-team/

Wichita Falls to welcome new hockey team in 2020 Wichita Falls will be seeing another sports team in the community come September of 2020.

It was May 1, 1975. The Johnstown Jets won the North American Hockey League championship 44 years ago tonight, completing a four-game sweep of the Broome Dusters from Binghamton, and also completing a Cinderella comeback story that was soon immortalized in everyone's favorite movie. At least nine of the Jets in this photo ended up being featured in "Slap Shot" - who's your favorite character from the film?

http://m.startribune.com/there-s-hockey-too-with-the-hoops-final-four/508161562/

There's hockey, too, with the hoops Final Four Michigan State has a trio of hockey national championships, but did you know that Texas Tech, Auburn and Virginia also have hockey teams?

Click the link to go “the Holly’s” instagram and help Tech hockey raise $1,000 by liking their photo!

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Tuesday, April.10th, 2018



A letter to me and my brothers,

Imagine……...waking up or being disturbed to a shock and motion so violent that it changes and sets forth a moment and future of reality you never had a chance to catch.



At 5pm Central Time, April.7th, 2018 I lost a piece of me………. of my life……. I was hit. I was not even close to the most horrifying devastation we have ever seen in hockey, but the synergy and brotherhood of being of a hockey player made me feel it cut like a knife through my heart. I am Canadian, I am a hockey player, I live in Texas……. but I was hit to by this……. like a hammer. I rode the bus, I played junior hockey, I chased the effervescent dream of working so hard to make it. So many countless miles travelled on the bus I rode, through Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba and beyond. You anticipate nothing but joy and comradery as you ride that bus, it is your second home away from home. You joke, you play games, you play cards and always assume you are in an unstoppable tank of freedom as you make the journey to your next game. As we all have seen and felt, that tank isn’t so indestructible.

How do we absorb this, how do we try and move on and assure ourselves as hockey gladiators that in true fashion we always try and carry ourselves above normal humanity? We can’t……. we don’t ever prepare ourselves for loss, for disappointment, for chance. We as hockey players wrap ourselves in a mystery of passion and love and always assume we are safe and blessed because that is the life we have been given. Yet reality comes….it comes with a vengeance we can never anticipate……a capacity of misunderstanding and loss that takes us away from who we are and what we are. Now we are broken, broken beyond the armor and strength we have ever known. Why, why can this be? How can this happen?

So selfishly I feel alone, yet I know every hockey player mourns this loss. Every mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt and billet cry and suffers this horrendous loss. The beauty beyond this disaster is that as a nation, a community, a family…… we come together and understand we are more powerful than a single emotion of despair and cataclysm, we are invulnerable to this because we are the pure human of adulation and perfection. We know the overtime loss, the injured teammate, we are the pinnacle of the athlete. You say hockey player, the public says amazing, warrior, the best sports have to offer. This gives me peace, this gives me hope because I know there is no other community that can offer such love and adoration. None can hold a candle to us, yet many will light a candle to make us be felt and seen.

I am a hockey player, I am a brother of this family, I will love and cherish what is ours. God bless and love the coaches, players and families of this incident, you will forever be on my heart and ingrained into my soul. I am so sorry for all who have lost and been affected by this. God Bless you all.



Paul Fioroni- Hockey Player, Brother in Arms

Still lots of hope!! There is a great response to the synthetic ice.

I Beat Pete: Synthetic Ice Challenge at The Garden with former Cotton Kings This week with the new Synthetic ice rink at the Garden in the Depot just for the month of December, I contacted some of the former Lubbock Cotton Kings to c...

http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2017/01/19/college-club-hockey-flourishing-texas-future-ncaa-sport

http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2017/01/19/college-club-hockey-flourishing-texas-future-ncaa-sport ALLEN -- Hockey has been warming up to the South.The Stars moved to Dallas in 1993 and became the first Sun Belt team to win a Stanley Cup in 1999....

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We are asked every month why is there no ice in Lubbock from people local and from every hockey league in The US. The simple answer is the Coliseum is too old to house it anymore. We would need to build a free standing structure. For Lubbock it would be between 4-45 million dollars. From our research we think Lubbock would fall somewhere south of the middle of that figure. Let us know if you are interested or know someone that would be interested in investing in such a facility.

Here is some inspiration from just one year of Tech Hockey in 2007-2008. The first video is our opening for the video boards in the arena.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5G19wPhG1Zs

Tech Hockey 07-08 Tech ice hockey