CHL commissioner Tom Berry said he is just as anxious as Coffey to get the schedule out. But he added that the opportunity to bring a major market like San Antonio into to the league is worth the wait. San Antonio formerly played in the CHL under the name Iguanas. But it left the league last season to join the International Hockey League. There are some legal matters being taken care of that we hope will be resolved by the deadline.
Every indication is that it's going to happen.
We have every desire to make it happen. San Antonio may not have a team yet, but it does have some players after it and Topeka participated in an expansion draft Thursday. The CHL will not release the names of the players the two new teams selected until Monday. But the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper reported today that Kevin McKinnon was taken from the Force's roster by the Scarecrows. McKinnon, who was acquired from Nashville just before the Ice Flyers folded, has already signed with Columbus of the East Coast Hockey League.