With fight night complete, when does hockey season begin?
Corpus Christi does its level best to take the H out of WPHL with exhibition that bore little resemblance to hockey By Bart Wright Caller-Times Sports Editor A year to the day after the grand experiment began, hockey in South Texas started up all over again. Not necessarily good hockey, mind you, but hockey all the same. How to describe it? Does the phrase Texas-style minor league hockey conjure up a certain rusty crosscut saw brand of cold steel on ice just a few steps removed from a barbed-wire cage match? It was that kind of hockey. Wednesday’s Western Professional Hockey League season-opener raised the curtain on the second year of hockey here in the land of wide-open spaces. A handful of IceRays players are veterans at this stuff, having skated out a year ago to the day when they started their inaugural season against the same Austin team. But for the owners, this wasn’t 365 days after the first hockey game. For them, it was truly a first-time experience. They’ve been official for
