DAR130 wrote:I went to every Blackburn Hawks games for years and saw some great players play for us,but when they dropped down the leagues and stopped paying for imports the standard of hockey got so low I gave up watching them.If they ever did put some effort into having a good team and joined the league the Phoenix are in i'd start going back to watch them.When you've seen players the likes of Moria and Chartrand play for you,paying to watch a team nowhere near that kind of standard doesn't do it for me.
Remember as an avid Humberside Seahawks fan going to Blackburn and all us travelling fans wore bermuda shorts, hawaiian shirts and marigolds not the warmest of arenas.
Over the years the Blackhawks/Hawks have had some other quality players Perlini, Damphousse, Trent Kaese, Doc Durdle, Bobby & John Haig, Stokes.
Shame British hockey took such a nose dive when Heineken pulled out.
You expect an ice arena to be cold but not that cold.Over the years there were some great atmospheres at games.A couple I remember are the Sheffield Steelers 1st season when they needed to beat us to get promotion and they brought over 2,500 fans to see them win,another was a playoff game against our hated rivals the Trafford Metros when there was over 3,000 in the arena.They're lucky to get a few hundred fans these days.
