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How do teams simply move from one league to another? Isn't there affiliations and things to deal with? If one league is a higher level of play than the other, would the team have to lose it's players and get better players? Does the "team" simply mean the name, colors, and uniforms, but new affiliation and new players? Or is it literally the same team just in a new league?

This is sorta like when the Rockford IceHogs "moved up" from the UHL to the AHL. The River Rats AHL franchise is being moved to Charlotte, and then they're taking the Charlottte Checkers branding off the ECHL franchise and sticking it on the River Rats. So now there's a nameless homeless ECHL franchise that somebody has to deal with.

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How do teams simply move from one league to another? Isn't there affiliations and things to deal with? If one league is a higher level of play than the other, would the team have to lose it's players and get better players? Does the "team" simply mean the name, colors, and uniforms, but new affiliation and new players? Or is it literally the same team just in a new league?

This is sorta like when the Rockford IceHogs "moved up" from the UHL to the AHL. The River Rats AHL franchise is being moved to Charlotte, and then they're taking the Charlottte Checkers branding off the ECHL franchise and sticking it on the River Rats. So now there's a nameless homeless ECHL franchise that somebody has to deal with.

I heard the ECHL franchise is actually being relinquished...

http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.cgi?action=show_news&id=21388

What a waste, if you ask me.

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How do teams simply move from one league to another? Isn't there affiliations and things to deal with? If one league is a higher level of play than the other, would the team have to lose it's players and get better players? Does the "team" simply mean the name, colors, and uniforms, but new affiliation and new players? Or is it literally the same team just in a new league?

This is sorta like when the Rockford IceHogs "moved up" from the UHL to the AHL. The River Rats AHL franchise is being moved to Charlotte, and then they're taking the Charlottte Checkers branding off the ECHL franchise and sticking it on the River Rats. So now there's a nameless homeless ECHL franchise that somebody has to deal with.

I heard the ECHL franchise is actually being relinquished...

http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.cgi?action=show_news&id=21388

What a waste, if you ask me.

Nobody ever said they wouldn't expand to fill the void left by the Charlotte franchise or moving a team up from the IHL (or CHL for that matter) a la Kalamazoo.

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How do teams simply move from one league to another? Isn't there affiliations and things to deal with? If one league is a higher level of play than the other, would the team have to lose it's players and get better players? Does the "team" simply mean the name, colors, and uniforms, but new affiliation and new players? Or is it literally the same team just in a new league?

This is sorta like when the Rockford IceHogs "moved up" from the UHL to the AHL. The River Rats AHL franchise is being moved to Charlotte, and then they're taking the Charlottte Checkers branding off the ECHL franchise and sticking it on the River Rats. So now there's a nameless homeless ECHL franchise that somebody has to deal with.

I heard the ECHL franchise is actually being relinquished...

http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.cgi?action=show_news&id=21388

What a waste, if you ask me.

Peoria's old owners could have told you that's the likely endgame. You can't sell what nobody wants to buy.

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You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
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