Ice Hockey in Florida - Ice Hockey Teams in Florida, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Everblades, Florida Seals (Paperback)


Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ice Hockey Teams in Florida, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Everblades, Florida Seals, Pensacola Ice Pilots, Pensacola Ice Flyers, Miami Manatees, Florida College Hockey Classic. Excerpt: The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2004. The team is commonly referred to as the Bolts, and the nickname is used on their current third jersey. They play their home games at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. In the late 1980s, the NHL announced that it would expand. Two rival groups from the Tampa/St. Petersburg area decided to bid for a franchise: a St. Petersburg-based group fronted by future Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes owners Peter Karmanos and Jim Rutherford, and a Tampa-based group led by two Hall of FamersPhil Esposito and his brother Tony. On paper, it looked like the Karmanos/Rutherford group was the frontrunner. Not only was the Karmanos/Rutherford group better financed, but one of Esposito's key backers, the Pritzker family, had backed out a few months before the bid. Esposito eventually recruited a consortium of Japanese businesses headed by Kokusai Green, a Japanese golf course and resort operator. The prospect of Japanese backing tipped the scales in the Esposito group's favor, and they were awarded an expansion franchise for the 199293 season, as was a group in Ottawa (which became the Ottawa Senators). One of the limited partners in the new Tampa Bay team was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (who lives in Tampa during the year). According to former NHL president Gil Stein, another factor was that... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=73124

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ice Hockey Teams in Florida, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Everblades, Florida Seals, Pensacola Ice Pilots, Pensacola Ice Flyers, Miami Manatees, Florida College Hockey Classic. Excerpt: The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2004. The team is commonly referred to as the Bolts, and the nickname is used on their current third jersey. They play their home games at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. In the late 1980s, the NHL announced that it would expand. Two rival groups from the Tampa/St. Petersburg area decided to bid for a franchise: a St. Petersburg-based group fronted by future Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes owners Peter Karmanos and Jim Rutherford, and a Tampa-based group led by two Hall of FamersPhil Esposito and his brother Tony. On paper, it looked like the Karmanos/Rutherford group was the frontrunner. Not only was the Karmanos/Rutherford group better financed, but one of Esposito's key backers, the Pritzker family, had backed out a few months before the bid. Esposito eventually recruited a consortium of Japanese businesses headed by Kokusai Green, a Japanese golf course and resort operator. The prospect of Japanese backing tipped the scales in the Esposito group's favor, and they were awarded an expansion franchise for the 199293 season, as was a group in Ottawa (which became the Ottawa Senators). One of the limited partners in the new Tampa Bay team was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (who lives in Tampa during the year). According to former NHL president Gil Stein, another factor was that... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=73124

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June 2010

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June 2010

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152 x 229 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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60

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978-1-158-18990-8

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9781158189908

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1-158-18990-7



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