IHL Talks Are 'Very Far Along' on Third Hockey Team in L.A.

IHL Talks Are ‘Very Far Along’ on Third Hockey Team in L.A.

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Dec. 16, 1994 12 AM PT

Hockey fans may have three area teams to choose from next season.

Fred Comrie, owner of the San Diego Gulls of the International Hockey League, said he is “very far along” in negotiations to move his team to the Sports Arena. And if that falls through, Pat Lynch, the Sports Arena’s general manager, said he will pursue another IHL tenant.

“We’re going to turn over every stone to bring in a team,” Lynch said. “We really think it can do well here.”

The newcomer would compete with the NHL’s Kings and Mighty Ducks, but its ticket prices would be far less. Prices in the IHL, a developmental league for the NHL, average about $11. NHL prices average more than $30.

The IHL expanded this season to Detroit, Chicago, Houston and Minnesota. It will add clubs in Orlando, Fla., and San Francisco next season.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

IHL Talks Are ‘Very Far Along’ on Third Hockey Team in L.A.

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