Macon also had a (I think) soccer team called the Macon Love.
fetus, there are other Southern towns with hockey if you’d like to add a few: Huntsville, Richmond, Jacksonville…
How bout Greenville? Generals? Am I remembering the name of the town right? The Gulls had a Latvian goalie (forgot his name, Sergei something) who was a total star for us, who went over there and played for the Generals. He might be retired by now, but I still wouldn’t mind hitting that town…North Carolina? I’m normally good with geography, but I don’t remember where that damn team is…
Of course not! The river is too bendy.
OTOH, Detroit can use the section North of Belle Isle (where the original hydroplanes ran) and Toronto has a medium sized lake out front.
There was a North Carolina-based team known as the Greensboro Generals in the East Coast Hockey League. Meanwhile, the South Carolina city of Greenville was (still is?) home to the Grrrowl.
Incidentally, the East Coast Hockey League is now officially just the ECHL after expanding into California and other Western states.
The Growwl have folded. The Pee Dee Cyclones are in Florence, SC. There are also the Knoxville Ice Bears in Tn.
We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire.
Who, me?
I’m just somewhat amazed my freaky observations have evolved into a minor-league hockey thread. 
Avast mates, I have sighted land I wanna buy–and today was just one of three days.
Tripler
Because we all know pirates and hockey go hand-in-hand.
As mentioned, Greensboro, where I am currently living (despite the location tag). That would be the weirdest thing ever, a Greensboro dopefest. Actually, just up until recently two very prominent dopers lived in Greensboro as well, but they have since moved onto Kentucky.
Great city regardless.
And how do you pronounce that acronym? Because I want to shout it if at all possible.
Man, I never get the willies. I always get the gords.
To be fair, hockey players wear shorts all season. And hey! There’s a hockey team here in Charleston, the Stingrays!
I’m sorry to hear the Greenville Growl folded, they didn’t look half bad this past season.
I’d be SO up for a hockey DopeFest, I bet it’d be easier and cheaper to get Flames tix than 'Canes…Except for maybe pre-season.
Tripler, good luck w/ the real estate hunt. May the Gods of Contingency spare your hopes!
Enough with the complaining. At leats you didn’t end up back in Minot, or get stuck at Malmstrom or F.E. Warren.
Geez, some people just don’t realize how lucky they are, I’m telling you… 
Hey, I liked Minot, and pleasantly tolerated Great Falls. I’m not complaining, I’ve just got the heebie-jeebies. I saw another one today on a little roadside sign, but it was still enough to freak me out:
“EDIMGIAFAD”.
I immediately had a slight panic attack . . .
Tripler
Oh, and by the way, I think I found a place! I’ll be making an offer on it t’morrow.
Sondrestromfjord AFB. It makes people look forward to Minot!
Rather than continue the hockey hijack…lookie here.
Well. Since this thread has already been hijacked into a hockey thread, I’m going to hijack it again into a real estate thread. [sub]or maybe not[/sub] I’ll try to keep this long story short. I went looking for a house on Friday. I signed the papers on Monday. A few days later I went over to my friend the realtor’s house. I saw her multiple listing book. I looked up the house I had just bought. There is a place for “view” and mine said “MtnV”, which stands for Mountain View. I expressed surprise, since my house does most emphatically NOT have a mountain view. The realtor (who brokered the buying of my house) said "Oh, just look again from the bedroom that faces Mt. Baker. So the next time I went into the house, I went into the East facing room on the second floor. Sure enough, if you stood on a chair, on your tippytoes, you could see the very tip top part of Mt. Baker.
Sheesh. 
Look, Smithers, Garbo is coming!
“So how do you like your new retirement home, mother?”
“IT’S NO GOOD! You can see the man next door getting undressed!”
“Erm… no. No, you can’t.”
“JUST YOU STAND ON THAT TABLE!”
Another three today:
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On the side of a bank, with a banner in a similar style of that red-white-and-blue one I saw earlier.
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Another on a sign, just below that of a bank’s main banner (very subtle, you freaky assholes!)
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And yet another on the LED-scrolling sign of a local credit union. I’m starting to get a hint here. . .
Methinks BRAC hit these people pretty hard, with Rod Serling as chairman of the board.
Tripler
I almost typed “broad”, of which Rod Serling in the same sentence, would not be a good thing. . . :dubious:
Boy, we could have a 5 page thread on the horribleness of BRAC and the swath of destruction it can leave. I’ve heard people talk in Charleston here - folks get agitated just hearing the acronym.
Hey! Minot is a nice little town - just a bit too warm, being that far south… 