![SPHL Commish: ‘We’d Like For [A Hockey Team To Come Back To Shreveport/Bossier] By January Or February’ [AUDIO]](http://townsquare.media/site/184/files/2012/10/IMG_20121020_200818-630x472.jpg?w=980&q=75)
SPHL Commish: ‘We’d Like For [A Hockey Team To Come Back To Shreveport/Bossier] By January Or February’ [AUDIO]
Many hockey fans in the area rejoiced on Saturday night when the Louisiana Ice Gators and the Mississippi River Kings dropped the puck.
It was a sight fans here have not seen since the now defunct Mudbugs last played a home game in April 2011, the same year they won the title.
If Saturday night proved anything, it is that the ball is rolling on a hockey franchise returning to an area that lost hope in all sports, once all three of the town's sports franchises either folded or left within a year.
The commissioner of the Southern Professional Hockey League (which houses the two teams that played on Saturday) spoke with The Tiger about the huge possibility of a team returning to town. According to Combs, this possibility is good.
Combs on the fans, the planning into this exhibition game, potential ownership groups, how soon a team would be placed in Shreveport/Bossier permanently:
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