We have a lot of people calling us about putting a hockey team in the Civic Center and this will let us see what the interest is in Savannah. I think it can work here. It already did somewhere else with Stathis' help. There's a year-round rink on Staten Island now, used primarily by the league Stathis coached in, which has grown wildly. Each high school now has more than one team, some as many as six.
Hockey is a big deal there now.
I even have a nephew who has started weekly hockey clinics at the new rink. And if hockey ever gets to be a big deal in Savannah, like it already is in Southern cities like Jacksonville and Charleston and Macon, maybe it starts this weekend. Find e-mail addresses and phone numbers of reporters, photographers and editors.