Moving to Omaha

[ssgtbb 0]

I am moving to omaha in May and would like to know if anybody knows about the hockey programs there and if they have any adult amatuer leagues and how easy they are to get started in? Like I saod moving there in May and was just wondering.

[Dante2004 0]

Nebraska has a team (college) so there must be a rink...and I would also assume SOME level of local interest.

[JR Boucicaut 3803]

You have the school, you have the Omaha Lancers...

PM blackhawks4ever - he lives in Omaha.

[RadioGaGa 162]

AHL - Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights

I know this doesn't help you for playing...but there is hockey in the area.

[Ogie 0]

The level of play in Omaha is pretty high. It has a pretty big following.

[joelnmich 0]

SSGTBB,

You're already on the OMCHL.com website in the discussion forums so you've accessed the largest league in the town.

For ice there's 4 sheets that are normally available for play (www.omahaice.com) and there's 3 local hockey teams from NCAA to Jrs to AHL.

Good level of hockey, but strangely only one hockey shop.

[JGraz15 53]

http://www.arenamaps.com/search.php?positi...ield=arena_name

[badsk8ter 0]

There's a private rink here that has an Oly size rink and an NHL size rink. It's privately owned and opened year around. At that location is a small hockey shop. We have 2 city rinks. One is NHL size and is open year around and 1 is slightly smaller and opened 6 months out of the year. Council Bluffs has a rink that the Lancers play on (it's inside a smaller sized arena). You can rent the ice there but I've heard its expensive and is generally not for normal public use. There's a small town about 30-45 minutes away that has the best rink in Nebraska (IMO). It's an Oly size rink that was built a little over 2 years ago. Beautiful facility but few seem to want to drive that far.....

There's the MCHL (that Joel mentioned) that has 2 divisions, a novice (and it truly is a novice division) and the upper division. The BPHL is another league. The BPHL has a few former minor leaguers and a few former D1 players playing right along side novice level players. I'm not sure if there's still the MASHA league or not. MASHA played a no checking between the blue lines level of play and was/is a pretty physical league.

Other than the small shop at the privately owned rink there is another hockey shop in town. As have been mentioned, we have 3 levels of play here. The Lancers, USHL, the Knights, AHL and the Mavs, College D1.

[ssgtbb 0]

This is awesome I am super excited. Seems there is more going on there then there is going on in South FLorida.

[topshelf11 0]

Find a sports bar called Legends. There is guy named Nick that owns or manages it. He is a good player. He brings a team to our tourney every year, mostly ex-Lancers and UNO Mavericks. They have won it the last 2 years.