With the Bakersfield Condors beginning a new season, Rabobank Arena is unveiling a series of upgrades. (more…)
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AHL Outdoor Classic: Rain, Reign, Rain
A big risk when scheduling an outdoor hockey game is a potential weather impact. In Toronto, that means snow or cold; in a warm-weather market, it means rain — and that’s exactly what impacted play at the AHL Outdoor Classic in Bakersfield last night. (more…)
Condors Announce Condorstown Outdoor Classic
Memorial Stadium will be the site of hockey action on January 7, 2017, when the Bakersfield Condors host the Ontario Reign in the Condorstown Outdoor Classic. (more…)
Moves to the West a Success for AHL
The ultimate Western expansion came roughly 170 years ago, when the prospect of gold drove hundreds of thousands of prospectors to California in search of wealth and prosperity. For the American Hockey League, the trail that was blazed in the 19th century served it well in 2015. (more…)
Five team California AHL division in works?
With word leaking about an AHL reconfiguration that will see multiple teams shifting to the western United States, it looks like we could see a five team California AHL division. (more…)
AHL realignment begins: Norfolk to San Diego, OKC to Bakersfield
The western AHL realignment is apparently beginning, as reports of the Norfolk Admirals to San Diego and the Oklahoma Barons to Bakersfield are surfacing. (more…)
Ducks revamp minor-league ties, adding Syracuse, dropping Bakersfield
The Anaheim Ducks, who played without an AHL affiliate last season, has signed a deal to supply players to the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch and is dropping the ECHL’s Bakersfield Condors in the process. The decision to drop the Condors was purely logistical: Ducks management didn’t want to have two minor-league affiliates on different coasts. And […]