Hope on the Horizon in Evansville
EVANSVILLE, IN – Walking into the offices of the Evansville Thunderbolts for an interview with team owner Mike Hall and head coach Jeff Pyle is an experience. I spotted Mike in the same logo’d shirt...
View ArticleThunderbolts Ink Seven New Players
EVANSVILLE, IN – The Evansville Thunderbolts had a flurry of activity over the weekend adding seven more names to their roster. Are these the Magnificent Seven? Evansville will have an opportunity to...
View ArticleHooray! It’s SPHL Roster Release Day!
Wednesday, October 19th is the deadline day for all SPHL teams to release their opening-night rosters. Teams have until 5pm ET to submit their rosters to the league office. We’ll update this post...
View ArticleInto the Sin Bin with Mike Hall and Jeff Pyle
Welcome to another edition of Into the Sin Bin! It has been a rough twelve months for hockey fans in Evansville. It started in late November when Evansville IceMen owner Ron Geary announced the team...
View ArticleEvansville Thunderbolts 2016-17 Season Preview
Head Coach: Jeff Pyle – 1st Year Coach of Thunderbolts – Former Evansville IceMen (ECHL) Head Coach Captain: The first-ever team captain has yet to be disclosed. Last Season: New beginnings in the...
View ArticleMississippi RiverKings outlast Evansville Thunderbolts, 2-1
SOUTHAVEN, MS – Mississippi RiverKings forward Todd Hosmer had the shot and made it count. Skating into the zone down the right side boards in a rare moment when Evansville Thunderbolts defenders...
View ArticleEvansville Thunderbolts Get the Monty Python Treatment
EVANSVILLE, IN – Sports teach us a lot of things about ourselves. As fans of any given team we endure pain, misery, frustration and heartache. We hope for triumph, happiness, and victory. It’s a...
View ArticleEvansville Hopes to End the Roanoke Nightmare
EVANSVILLE, IN – The Evansville Thunderbolts and the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs will be linked together as long both are in existence and playing within the Southern Professional Hockey League. They are...
View ArticleBeing Thankful for Evansville Hockey
It’s Thanksgiving time again for everyone around the United States. The air has a crispness to it in Southern Indiana, the leaves are filling up gutters and everyone is plotting their excuse to avoid...
View ArticleThunderbolts Host Columbus Cottonmouths Friday
EVANSVILLE, IN – The Thunderbolts play just a single game this weekend at the Ford Center, riding the wave of a three-game winning streak. Evansville won back to back games last weekend against the...
View ArticleThunderbolts Flying High With Toys For Tots
EVANSVILLE, IN – Amongst all the hustle and bustle of the Holiday Season, there’s an undercurrent of giving. It’s the point of all the shopping and stress we create for ourselves. The Spirit of the...
View ArticleInside the SPHL 2016 Year-in-Review Part 1
Welcome to Part 1 of the 2016 SPHL Year-in-Review Podcast, where Matthew Harding and Sin Bin SPHL Editor Mike Campos discuss the hot topics around the Southern Professional Hockey League from the past...
View ArticleInside the SPHL 2016 Year-in-Review Part 2
Welcome to part two of the 2016 SPHL Year-in-Review Podcast, where Matthew Harding and Sin Bin SPHL Editor Mike Campos discuss the hot topics around the Southern Professional Hockey League from the...
View ArticleWhere Did Everybody Go? Attendance Theories for Thunderbolts
EVANSVILLE, IN – Hopefully everyone had a safe and wonderful Holiday Season. No matter what you celebrate, your life was probably filled with lots of gifts. Those gifts range from wants to needs....
View ArticleMid Season Report Card: Evansville Thunderbolts
EVANSVILLE, IN – The SPHL season is roughly half over and the body of work from the Evansville Thunderbolts is deep enough to assess what type of team they may have for the remainder of the season....
View ArticleMatty’s 2017 SPHL All-Star Team
WICHITA, KS – My education into the Southern Professional Hockey League continues and so far, it’s been a blast! Admittedly, before the start of the season, I knew very little about the league and its...
View ArticleMike Hall Bought Out of Ownership Share of Thunderbolts
EVANSVILLE, IN – Mike Hall owned the Evansville Thunderbolts for less than a year. In that time, Hall and Jeff Pyle worked hard to bring SPHL hockey to market that was abandoned by the Evansville...
View ArticleGetting to Know Thunderbolts Goalie Tanner Milliron
EVANSVILLE, IN – This week I had the privilege of talking with second-year pro and returning Evansville Thunderbolts goalie Tanner Milliron for a one-on-one Q&A. Tanner is coming back for a second...
View ArticleNo Excuses: An Interview With Thunderbolts Coach Jeff Pyle
COLUMBUS, GA - I first met Evansville Thunderbolts head coach Jeff Pyle during a visit to the Ford Center last season.
View ArticleEvansville Thunderbolts 2017-18 Schedule Preview
EVANSVILLE, IN - After finishing in last place in the inaugural season, the Evansville Thunderbolts are looking for a much stronger start than last season's 11-game winless streak for the 2017-18 season.
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